Keep The Cold Out With These Thermal Blinds

Our best blinds for keeping your home warm

It’s that time of the year again, the temperature is quickly plummeting, the weather is taking a turn for the worse and it’s only a matter of time until we’re scraping frost off our cars in the morning.

Many of us will be having our yearly stand off with the thermostat in a matter of days, especially with heating bills being so high at the moment it can be hard to accept defeat and put the heating on – But what if we told you that there was a way you can keep your home warmer, for longer whenever you turn the heating on, meaning that you get more bang for your buck every time you turn the heating on – That’s right, you can keep your home warmer this winter by reducing heat loss through your windows with a good set of our insulating Thermal Blinds!

How do thermal blinds keep your home warm?

While you’re reading this, you may think to yourself “Can just a simple window blind REALLY help keep my house warmer?” and the answer is a resounding YES!

In an average home, windows are one of the biggest areas of heat loss, as the cold windows absorb the heat from your home, causing it to radiate outside your home causing heat loss. The opposite can also occur as the cold air outside your home cools your windows, causing cold air to radiate inwards from your windows.

Now, this is where a good set of insulating thermal blinds comes in handy, a thermal blind will create a layer of insulation between your home’s interior and its windows – creating a barrier to reduce how much heat reaches your windows from inside and creating a shield against the cold air radiating into your home from the windows.

With thermal blinds in place, you’ll drastically reduce the amount of heat inside your home that’s lost through your windows and help to reduce the flow of cold air into your home through your windows – Effectively keeping your home warmer and allowing you to save on energy bills as your heating system will be made more efficient!

What thermal blinds are best for keeping your home warm in winter?

Now that you know how a set of our thermal blinds can keep your home nice and toasty, you’re probably wondering “what’s the best thermal blind to keep me and my house warm?” – Well, you’re in luck as we’re about to answer that question!

‘Total Blackout’ Cassette Blinds

Starting off, we have our ‘Total Blackout’ Cassette Blinds, if you are looking for unparalleled levels of insulation from a thermal blind, you really can not beat our cassette blinds!

Our cassette blinds pair our thermal Bosa blackout fabric, with a cassette and side channel system, which can provide a level of insulation no other blind can match. The thermal Bosa fabric is quite possibly our best thermal fabric to start off with, but as the cassette and side channel systems come into play, they create a solid layer of defense over your windows, allowing no space for cold air to enter your home, nor for hot air to escape it.

Pros of our ‘Total Blackout’ Cassette Blinds:

• Uses our amazing thermal Bosa fabric to prevent cold air passing through the blind, while also keeping hot air inside your home


• Uses our cassette & side channel system to create total insulation around windows


• Provides a greater level of insulation than any other shade available on the DotcomBlinds website


• Our cassette blinds can be made with either manual control, or with a remote controlled motor operation


• Our cassette blinds can be made in extra-large sizes, allowing them to effectively shade incredibly large windows

Cons of our ‘Total Blackout’ Cassette Blinds:

• Our cassette blinds will also create a ‘Total Blackout’ effect, which will make your home quite dark


• The cassette & side channel system is quite chunky, which may be an aesthetic turn off for some

Shop our 'Total Blackout' Cassette Blinds here

Roman Blinds (With thermal lining)

Now if our cassette blinds aren’t really your thing, you could always rely on a blind that has been keeping home’s warm for over 1,000 years – The humble Roman Blind (with thermal lining)!

Now a regular Roman blind won’t provide much insulation to your windows, but once you bring the thermal lining into play, your regular Roman blind becomes a juggernaut of thermal insulation. The thermal lining is fitted inside the fabric of the blind, creating a defensive layer within the blind to provide insulation over your windows, keeping your home nice and warm.

Pros of our Roman Blinds (With thermal lining):

• The thermal lining will create a solid layer of insulation, preventing cold air passing in through the fabric and reducing the amount of warm air that passes out through your windows


• Roman Blinds are considered one of the more stylish blinds you can use, providing some style points as well as the thermal insulation benefits

Cons of our Roman Blinds (With thermal lining):

• As our Roman Blinds don’t use a cassette system, cold and warm air may still pass around the edges of the blind, still allowing some heat loss to occur (albeit reduced levels of heat loss)


• The use of a thermal lining will also create a blackout effect, which will reduce the amount of natural light your home gets

Shop our Thermal Roman Blinds here

Thermal Roller Blinds

Now if you’re not sold on cassette blinds or Roman blinds (with thermal lining), then perhaps a thermal Roller Blind would be more up your street? Our thermal Roller Blinds can be found in the same thermal Bosa fabric we use in our cassette blinds, as well as other thermal fabrics.

Our thermal roller blinds use a thermal fabric, creating a layer of insulation over your windows, using standard roller blind hardware (Keep in mind you can always upgrade to a remote control thermal electric blind set up as well). Any of our thermal roller blind fabrics will provide a fair level of insulation, helping to reduce heat loss through your windows.

Pros of our Thermal Roller Blinds:

• The thermal roller blinds will create a solid layer of insulation, preventing cold air passing in through the fabric and reducing the amount of warm air that passes out through your windows


• Our thermal roller blinds are one of the cheaper thermal blind options we have, making them an affordable and accessible purchase for those on a tight budget


• Our thermal roller blinds can be made in extra-large sizes, allowing them to effectively shade incredibly large windows

Cons of our Thermal Roller Blinds:

• As our thermal roller blinds don’t use a cassette system, cold and warm air may still pass around the edges of the blind, still allowing some heat loss to occur (albeit reduced levels of heat loss)


• The use of a thermal fabric will also create a blackout effect, which will reduce the amount of natural light your home gets

Shop our Thermal Roller Blinds here

Curtains (With thermal lining)

So, you’ve decided that blinds aren’t for you, that’s okay, because we also have a range of almost 400 made to measure curtains that we can make with thermal linings to keep your home warm this winter!

All of our curtains come with a choice of linings just like our Roman blinds, allowing you to add in our thermal blackout lining to any curtain in our range to convert it from a normal curtain into a certified thermal curtain, capable of providing insulation over and around the windows in your home!

Pros of our Curtains (With thermal lining):

• The thermal lining will create a solid layer of insulation, preventing cold air passing in through the fabric and reducing the amount of warm air that passes out through your windows


• Our curtains come with a wide range of choices for fabrics, patterns and colours, allowing you to find a thermal curtain that perfectly suit your home’s decor

Cons of our Curtains (With thermal lining):

• As our curtains don’t use a cassette system, cold and warm air may still pass around the edges of the blind, still allowing some heat loss to occur (albeit reduced levels of heat loss)


• The use of a thermal lining will also create a blackout effect, which will reduce the amount of natural light your home gets

Shop our Thermal Curtains here

 

And there you have it, a handy breakdown of the best choices for thermal blinds and curtains to help shade and insulate your home this year, to improve your thermal efficiency, keep your heating bills down and keep your home warm!

If you have any questions about our insulating thermal blinds that we haven’t answered in this blog post today, you can always reach out to our team of blinds experts by calling us on: 0800 1422 417 or by sending an email to: [email protected].

You can browse our entire range of thermal blinds and curtains here!