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, …
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… …
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 …
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 …
A Decade in the Energy Markets and how to Protect Your Purse Strings Going Forwards
The way we both generate and consume energy has undergone vast changes over the last decade. As natural fossil fuel resources have depleted and the demand for renewable, environmentally friendly energy sources has increased, a seismic shift in domestic energy consumption is well underway. Between 2010 and 2018 coal powered domestic energy reduced by almost 90%, with gas and oil seeing similar drops over the same period. Of course, consumers are seeing the impact of this most keenly in their pockets. As new providers of renewable energy appear on the market and old fossil fuels become increasingly defunct, the energy …
Combat the 2021 Energy Price Hike with Two Super Simple Fixes
In the wake of the first UK national lockdown and all of the uncertainty surrounding it, the energy price cap dropped by £84 to its lowest level in years for the winter period. Those savings were invaluable whilst we were all spending more and more time at home, during those high energy months! Now things are returning back to ‘normal’, wholesale prices for energy are once again on the rise. In fact, Ofgem have announced an increase in the price cap for the 6 months from April 2021 – which in practice means that consumers are facing a hike in …
What Would You do With an Extra £250 a Year
How wonderful would it be to have an extra £250 in your pocket each year for doing absolutely nothing? We can’t hand you a wad of cash but we can offer you a handy little device that will reduce your water consumption and energy bills over the course of 12 months saving you hundreds of pounds. As your boiler gets older, its efficiency naturally declines. We can see this most clearly in the amount of time we spend waiting for the water to heat up after turning on the hot tap. How many times have you stood around waiting for …
Why You Should Pay Some Attention to Your Boiler This Summer
We all know that most boiler breakdowns occur during the winter months. Makes complete sense doesn’t it? It’s colder outside, the heating is on higher and the system is under pressure… it all gets too much, and you’re left feeling sorry for yourself in a cold house. As this seems like a winter problem, have you ever thought to check your boiler and heating system during the summer? The answer for most will be a ‘no’ due in part to the fact it’s not on as it’s hopefully warmer! In fact, because spring and summer always follow winter, those warmer …
The Benefits of Offering Your Customers a CombiSave
In an average year, up to 3% of UK boilers will experience issues or breakdown needing a call out. Over the last year, with so many people being stuck at home with not much more to do but stick the kettle on, we anticipate the extra pressure placed on domestic plumbing systems has increased this number significantly meaning that as a plumber, you’re probably much busier than normal right now! When you’re busy, getting busier isn’t always the first thing on your mind. But what if there was a way that you could help your customers lower their bills, it …
What Would You Do With An Extra Hour Each Year?
‘There just aren’t enough hours in the day’ How many times have you uttered those words, wishing for a few extra moments here and there to fit in all of those neglected bits of life admin or self-care? Modern life is busy, there’s no denying it. What if we could give you a whole day back each and every year without bending the space time continuum? And more importantly what could you do with that time? Even the most modern boilers lack a certain amount of efficiency which of course increases with the age of your system. The most obvious …
