Frost Sentry – perfect for holiday homes and those unable to visit their properties
The uncertainty of the last twelve months has seen holiday homes and second properties up and down the country sitting empty for long stretches of time. Whilst this was certainly an inconvenience during the scorching summer months, your beloved bolthole faces many more challenges during the winter and start to a new year. Historically, these next couple of months are the cruellest of the British winter. Over the last 130 years, the average ten coldest days of the year are spread out between 3rd January and 20th February with temperatures potentially falling to -10 C. And of course, this could …
Five ways a global pandemic has affected our environment
There isn’t a corner of the planet that remains unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, much of the impact has been utterly devastating but this worldwide disruption has had some surprising and very positive side effects on both our environment and climate here in the UK and across the globe. Wandering Wildlife From the goats heading down from the hills to check out deserted Welsh towns to turtles laying their eggs on a Delhi beach they have avoided for years due to human presence, animals the world over have been growing bolder. The reduction in pollution and absence of …
The real cost of frozen pipes and a simple solution during the coldest time of the year
We all love those beautifully crisp, frosty mornings or an unexpected bit of snow to play in but the associated plummet in temperatures can spell disaster for your plumbing system. With UK temperatures historically falling to their lowest between January and February each year (having reached a bone achingly cold -10 C) is your system ready to weather the snowstorm? One of the most common reasons for an emergency call out at this time of year is frozen pipes and the associated damage they can cause. This is particularly prevalent in holiday or second homes which might have been standing …
Three things you can do during a lockdown
No matter how much we may love our homes, did any of us think we’d be spending quite so much time in them over the last 12 months? Whilst the first lockdown was all about the outside space and getting those gardens ready for a long, hot summer of staying at home, Lockdown 3.0 is a different beast altogether. January and February, commonly the coldest months of the British year, bring with them plummeting temperatures and escalating heating bills; at a time when many have found themselves redundant from work, or on reduced furlough wages, a lot of people across …
Don’t let your boiler fail you this Christmas
Christmas is normally a time of great comfort for people; getting to spend quality time with your family, enjoy a few days off work, exchange presents and eat a delicious Christmas dinner. Yet that reassuring safety and familiarity is under threat this winter, in one of the most tumultuous and unpredictable years in living memory. With swathes of the UK living under high level restrictions due to Covid-19 and the looming threat of a second wave of the disease, it’s difficult to know what is going to happen in the weeks and months leading up to Christmas. The current tougher …
Five Things You Could Do With The Time You’ll Save with CombiSave this December
We’re already in November and the strangest year in living memory is coming to a close. The Coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate the news cycle and continues to affect how everyone is living their day to day lives. Many of us are living under strict Tier 2 or Tier 3 conditions, working from home and unable to socialise with others indoors. Yet if we forget the doom and gloom for just a moment and reflect… how is 2020 nearly over already? Despite months of lockdown, furlough and disruption, the year has still flown by quickly! Towards the end of the …
Combisave Starts Going Global
Our CombiSave device — an innovative unit that can help you reduce the amount of water and gas used in the initial heating process in your boiler, saving you time and money — has been on sale in the UK and Ireland for a long time now, but Teddington is looking to expand the reach of this great product much further than ever. The product has gone on sale in both Turkey and the Netherlands. Dave Furlong, the inventor of the CombiSave, went to Turkey earlier this year to hold a CombiSave training session with installers and engineers in Istanbul. …
Autumn’s erratic weather can put strain on our boilers
Autumn is a strange time of year. We picture it as being a time where the summer sunshine is simply cooling off and giving way to cloudier and cooler weather, with a bit more rain and the leaves falling off the trees. But as a season of transition, it’s more complicated than that, with rain one day giving way to sunshine the next and the sunshine giving way to frost the next. British weather is renowned for being changeable all year round but it seems more changeable than ever in the autumn months! This autumn is set to be no …
Prepare your pipes ahead of frost season
Although the weather has felt really mixed this autumn, we’ve yet to truly enter the coldest days of autumn and the even colder months ahead in winter. As we enter what’s usually the coldest months of the year, there’s every chance that we will experience severe cold snaps, general cold weather and potentially disruptive snowstorms as the UK has almost every winter for several years now. With the colder weather approaching, the Association of British Insurers has urged people to act as quickly as possible to avoid frozen and burst pipes this winter. The ABI states that the average cost …
Fight inevitable rising energy costs with the CombiSave
Times are tough for many of us in 2020; with the huge effects that the Coronavirus pandemic has had on the economy, many people are dealing with having lost their job, being on 80% of their normal salary through the furlough scheme or just having to cope with huge changes in lifestyle due to the national lockdown and shielding from the virus. Lockdown had a huge impact on how we spend our time, with many of those habits; considerably less time spent travelling, less time out for leisure and substantially more time at home having continued through to the autumn. …
