Soaring energy costs highlight the importance of cost saving devices in our homes
One thing has been dominating the news for the past couple of weeks; energy prices. When you consider that the wholesale price has soared from around 80 pence at the start of the year to a staggering £2.61 in the past few days, it’s little wonder that many across the country are now beginning to panic as we enter what is likely to be the coldest and darkest months of the year. National Energy Action has estimated that at least 1.2 million to 1.5 million additional households will be plunged into fuel poverty. What does that mean in reality? Simply, …
Is your boiler ready to run a marathon?
In October 2021, thousands and thousands of people took to the streets of our capital city to raise money for charities that were close to their hearts at the 41st London Marathon. They undoubtedly did so after weeks and weeks, or even months of training, getting fit and making sure they were in the right condition for when the big day arrived. Preparation is everything when it comes to running a marathon, so as we enter the coldest time of the year, is your boiler prepared as they set off on what is their own marathon winter stint? The truth …
8 Climate Change Facts that may surprise you
The UN Climate Change Conference 2021 will take place on 31st October – 12th November 2021, and at a time when we all need to be taking action! Although a day rarely goes by when we’re not hit with another headline of flooding, forest fires, and other extreme weather incidents, it can be easy to see this as happening in far-off lands, well outside the world in which we live our daily lives. The reality is that we all have a responsibility to do what we can to ensure that we pass our planet onto our children, and their children… …
Is Your Boiler Flagging After Lockdown? Why Now Is The Perfect Time To Check it Over
You won’t be surprised to hear that more than half of all boiler breakdowns happen during the winter months. When it comes to the UK, around 10% of the population – or 2.5 million homes – will face some sort of boiler disruption during these months. Sods law that your heating fails when it’s colder? Usually not! It’s due to you asking your boiler to do more and more as the temperatures plummet lower and lower. In the past 12 months boiler breakdown has become as common as it’s ever been. The reason? According to Hometree, it’s down to the …
Innovative product aims to avoid boiler breakdown for those with hearing and sight impediments
Imagine for a moment you lost one of your major senses for just twenty-four hours. It would be difficult, wouldn’t it? Not being able to hear, to see, to taste or to feel. Now imagine if you are one of the 13 million people in the UK doing just that every day of their lives. That’s right, more than 1 in 6 people in the UK suffer from some sort of hearing or sight impairment. Staggered by that figure? We were too! Whilst impairments of this nature are often thought of as being prevalent with older age groups, the reality …
Meeting Ambitious Government Climate Change Targets with HVO
The UK government has written into law the world’s most ambitious climate change target: to reduce CO2 emissions by 78% by 2035. For the first time, these targets include aviation and shipping emissions which will make considerable headway in meeting the target based on pre 1990 levels. But we know that the story doesn’t stop at international trade – very real changes need to be made on a much more personal scale in order for us to meet those challenging targets, including the way in which we heat our homes. For the 1.1 million rural homes not currently listed on …
Housing Associations: Boost Your Efficiency with a Super Simple Fix, Combisave
We know that Housing Associations up and down the country are juggling their obligations to tenants, commitment to environmental efficiency and ongoing need to reduce costs – more so now than ever before! What if we could offer you something that helped in all three areas? Enter the CombiSave. The CombiSave is a small, thermostatically controlled valve that can be fitted to most combination boilers and helps to reduce waste – helping housing associations across the UK to meet their environmental goals, while at the same time benefiting tenants through reduced utility bills. The CombiSave can be installed in minutes …
Oil Heating is Going Green! Introducing HVO
For the 1.1 million homes in the UK not currently connected to the gas network, Kerosene has been the primary heating source for as long as we can remember. But as the world seeks to decarbonise, a fuel source producing around 7 million tonnes of CO2 year on year is just not acceptable. But what are the alternatives? Until now, these off grid homes have been able to replace their oil burning system with an air source heat pump system to improve efficiency and reduce emissions but a cost in the region of £12-15k to upgrade is prohibitive for many. …
Why Spring Is the Perfect Time to Check Your Oil Burning System
As we head full speed into Spring 2021, so many of us will simply be switching off the heating and forgetting all about it until the cold sets in again next winter. Especially this year as lockdown is lifting and there’s so very much of life outside of the home to catch up on! If you live in one of the 1.5 million houses in the UK that relies on an oil-burning system for your household heating and hot water, don’t leave anything to chance: now is the ideal time to get your system checked over and ready to switch …
How to Spend a Day Out of Lockdown
Freedom beckons! We’ve all spent an awful lot of time over the last year staring at the same four walls! Now lockdown is lifting and we’re slowly heading out and about, what will you do first with all of that time out of the house? What if we could also save you the equivalent of a whole day a year too to really make the most of that time out of the house – what would you do with it? On average, each year a home wastes some 28,000 litres of water waiting for a boiler to kick in and …
