How to save energy at home - Insulating exposed water pipes

Help your homes run more energy efficiently!
We’ve collaborated with Homebase to bring you some Energy Saving tips and tricks featuring our ambassador Craig Phillips!
There are lots of little things you can do to avoid wasting energy in your homes.
Did you know that lagging your pipes can help prevent the water temperature inside exposed pipes from dropping by up to 2 degrees! This means that less energy is required to heat the water. This quick and easy task will also help prevent pipes from freezing, which can be quite a costly issue as pipes can burst when they freeze.
In this video Craig walks you through how to fit pipe insulation, other wise known as pipe lagging.
Let us know how you are saving money on energy this winter in the comments below.
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[@flickafy]

Welcome back, Craig. This was well explained and also the bit about cable tie positioning was helpful too. Thanks Silverline.

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MTAHMED44]

Nice one thanks.

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

No problem 👍

[@nunayobidness7217]

Cold doesn't penetrate. Heat does. Pipes near a wall with low thermal resistance can lose heat out the wall.

[@leec9781]

My boiler is in my garage and the pipe insulation is pooly fitted, so I'm going to redo it all. Would you recommend either gluing or taping insulation joints, if so what products would you use?

[@kriskelly6458]

As a lagger I would use armalex/armacell closed cell tubing and glue all the seems, and joins. Maybe some foil tape for a vapour barrier. Nice 45 but you could do it quicker with an insulation knife and plenty of experience.

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Thanks for the pro tip!

[@varunsuneja2401]

What do we call these kind of covers?

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

The foam is called pipe insulation or lagging

[@Ragnarrok2023]

should you lag both hot and cold pipes or just hot pipes?

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

It's a good idea to lag both hot and cold pipes for increased energy efficiency and to reduce the risk of freezing

[@redsresearch]

doesnt hot water pipes get too hot for insulation?

[@chad3274]

I would leave some excess after tightening the cable tie. This will enable you to undue and reuse them. You can undue them by using the tip of a knife, flathead. or other thin object to lift the tounge from the ridges of the end you put through the locing end.

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Great tip! Thanks

[@goshasmartson]

💙💛💖👍

[@SilverlineToolsTV]

Thanks!