While the general cost of living has been going up in the last few years, the cost of electricity and gas has been going up at a much higher rate, meaning our bills are getting truly shocking. Many people are doing things to use less electricity, such as using less heating, and not using non-necessary appliances like washing machines and dryers. But another approach is to use your electricity more efficiently. If you insulate your home with thermal wallpaper, you lessen the time you need to have radiators and fan heaters switched on for. Read on to learn more about thermal wallpaper and where to use it.
What is Thermal Wallpaper?
Thermal wallpaper is labeled differently by different brands. Sometimes it’s called insulating wallpaper, but it’s also known as insulating wallpaper or thermal lining paper (or thermal liner, to give it its abbreviated name). But all these terms refer to the same sort of product – a thermal wall covering that is designed to insulate your walls buy trapping warm air inside and prevent cold from outside getting through your interior walls.
Thermal liner vs Thermal Wallpaper
However, the construction of thermal wallpaper and thermal lining paper does differ slightly. Thermal lining paper is made of an advanced themal insulator bonded to a thick, high quality lining paper. It’s designed to be used beneath normal wallpaper and will offer the advantages of regular lining paper like smoothing walls and protecting wallpaper from becoming stained. Thermal wallpaper usually has another layer of paper attached to the visible side to give a textured finish to your walls. Usually you will only need to use one or the other to provide thermal wall insulation to your home.
Where to use Thermal Wall Coverings
Thermal wallpapers and liners can be used anywhere throughout your home, but they work best on external walls where they won’t just trap warm air withing but also make a barrier against the cold from outside. However, they also have benefits when used on all the walls in certain rooms e.g. to remove the need for a heater to be on in a bedroom all night or to make cold Winter mornings more bearable in kitchens and bathrooms.
If you are looking at buying thermal wallpaper or liner, check the packaging for a performance description. A good thermal wall insulation should cause a room to heat up around 65% faster than if it wasn’t insulated, and reduce energy usage by 36% – so the savings on your energy bills will be significant.