Tackling Fuel Poverty in 2021
In England one in every nine households (2.4 million) live in fuel poverty. A further 500,000 live within just £30 of going into fuel poverty. This year the energy regulator Ofgem has lifted its cap on fuel bills in the UK, allowing providers to increase tariffs which could cost millions of households an extra £100 per year. In fact, one of the biggest energy suppliers – British Gas – has already implemented the increase among its customers. Those who simply cannot afford such a price hike will of course look for other ways to reduce their energy costs, which generally …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
How a CombiSave could make affordable housing even more affordable
While many of us are thinking about other things at the moment with everything in the news, home ownership is still crucially important for so many people; there’s huge demand for more homes to be built in the UK. 247,000 more houses are being built in England and Wales each year than are being demolished, but that figure still falls significantly below the government’s target of 300,000 new homes each year. With house price rises consistently outstripping the pace of wage increases in recent years, there’s more demand than ever for affordable housing too, with more than half of 18 …
Five Things You Could Do With The Time You’ll Save with CombiSave this April
We’re about to move into April and the year keeps rushing by. The Coronavirus outbreak is dominating the news and also affecting how we live our day to day lives, with the majority of us working from home or having to self-isolate for the coming weeks ahead due to the government lockdown. Yet if we step back from the bad news and take stock… how are we in the fourth month of 2020 already? The time has flown by! Life can feel like you’re currently combatting the clock so there are few things more precious than being able to claw …
Save Time Every Time You Wash Your Hands with a CombiSave
The global outbreak of Covid-19 has had such a huge effect on our lives already; schools are closing their doors, supermarkets are struggling to keep up with demand for food and travel between countries has been largely restricted in an effort to combat the spread of Coronavirus. These are all huge steps to take, but as part of that effort to combat the spread, individuals are also being asked to play their part. People are being asked to work from home and self-isolate as much as possible so we can ‘flatten the curve’ of infection and prevent overdue strain on …
Reduce your CO2 output by taking an easy step with a CombiSave
There’s no denying that human activity is having a huge effect on our planet and its climate; the bushfires devastating Australia, Storms Dennis and Ciara in the UK and the widespread flooding show that our weather is getting more extreme, much quicker than we anticipated. Scientists have even found a new way to see what human activity is doing to our atmosphere, using satellites to see how human activity releases nitrogen oxide and other pollutants into the air. These toxins can irritate our lungs and respiratory system specifically, putting otherwise healthy people at risk if they breathe them in regularly. …
