Tenants in rural areas are seeing their homes transformed with an extra £600,000 awarded to Tai Ceredigion from the Welsh Government’s ARBED scheme at the beginning of this year. The housing association received the extra money to externally insulate its homes across Ceredigion.
The first homes to benefit from the extra funding have been in Penparc, Cardigan where the Burry Port based contractor, Celtic Rendering Systems has moved quickly to insulate the properties with Welsh produced Rockwool external wall insulation after Nolan Windows renewed the windows and doors.
Mrs Angela Eagles, a mother of three and a tenant in Penparc, Cardigan said “The external wall insulation, with the new windows and doors, are already to making a huge difference to our fuel bills. Our bungalow is lovely and warm and we are hardly using any oil to heat it. Our fuels costs have been halved already.”
Mrs Irene Cunningham added “I now only have to put my heating on once a day as my flat stays so warm. The team from Celtic Rendering Systems have been excellent; they have worked extremely quickly and have been really polite and tidy. If there were any problems they were on hand to put it straight.”
Llyr Edwards, Tai Ceredigion’s Director of Property Services said “This is the second phase of external wall insulation onto homes after last year’s successful projects in Aberystwyth, Ponterwyd and Pontrhydfendigaid. Tenants in Penparc, Bow Street, Croeslan, Gorsgoch, Prengwyn, Silan, Llys Deri in Lampeter, Ysbyty Ystwyth and Dihewyd will benefit from cheaper heating and electricity bills due to their homes being better insulated. We are also proud to be employing Welsh companies to apply the Welsh Rockwool product during the project and the funding has also provided training opportunities and ensured that jobs are retained.”
