Category: CombiSave

Recent years have been problematic; whilst wage increases have stalled, the cost of living has not.  Fuel, food and household bills have all risen significantly in recent times, whilst many have received below-inflation increases to their pay packets. That means for most people, budgets are getting tighter and tighter, but for some of us they’ve reached breaking point; more than 4 million UK households are thought to be living in ‘fuel poverty’, being left unable to afford to keep their house warm during the cold winter months. Fuel poverty leads to devastating consequences; The Office of National Statistics has shown …

We’re just about to start the third month of 2020 – how did that happen? Time flies by so quickly it’ll be summer and then Christmas before you know it! When you’re constantly combating the clock, there are few more precious prospects than clawing back some precious time. That’s exactly what our CombiSave device, which can easily be fitted to your combi-boiler, is designed to do. By not having to wait as long for the water in your taps to get hot, a CombiSave device can save a typical family household as much as 28 hours annually. That’s about 2 …

We think of England as an affluent country, free from many of the social problems affecting smaller countries, but it’s simply not the case; a combination of factors has seen England have the second highest rates of fuel poverty in Europe, only behind Estonia in the EU. That means that between 10% and 12% of households in the UK can’t afford to keep their home adequately warm at a reasonable cost, given their income; that’s as many as 4 million households being left in the cold. So, what has caused this increase in fuel poverty? The issue of fuel poverty …

If someone offered you the chance to save money, save time and help the environment, with minimum effort, it would be a no-brainer to do it, right? For the average homeowner, one simple device easily installed into your home could achieve all that with no fuss or great expense — truly living up to the old adage that “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. The CombiSave device might sound too good to be true, but the award-winning British innovation is something that definitely lives up to the hype! How does it work? The CombiSave helps to reduce the amount of water …

It’s that time of year where many of us are trying to get fit, quit smoking or take up a new hobby as part of New Year’s resolutions, but a few weeks into the month of January is normally when most of us falter and cast those resolutions by the wayside. The fitness app Strava have deemed January 19th as “Quitter’s Day”, the day that people are most likely to ditch their resolutions. One of the main reasons people give up resolutions is the struggle to find the time fit new activities into our daily routine. But our CombiSave device, …

The start of any new year is a great opportunity to do things a little differently, to take up new hobbies, or simply make positive adjustments to how we go about our daily lives. When we think of new year’s resolutions, they can often involve massive change or upheaval; giving up chocolate or going from no exercise to regular gym attendance are two of the most common resolutions every time Big Ben welcomes in another new year. However, sometimes the smallest changes can often have the biggest impact and never is this truer than in reducing our carbon footprint and …

The devastating flooding in the Midlands and north of England, highest tides at Venice in more than 50 years and the widespread bush fires in Australia have all caught the eye in the news, with climate change blamed for all of them. Since reliable temperature records began in 1850, the world has become one degree Celsius hotter than before the pre-industrial period. The implications of climate change on humanity, animals and the environment are worrying; the Paris Agreement focuses on keeping the global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, in an attempt to avoid severe, …

The cost of living is something that is in the minds of many people; wages have generally plateaued for years while the cost of food, petrol, property and pretty much everything else has continued to rise and rise. With budgets becoming tighter and tighter for people, people are thinking more and more about their energy bills. In times gone by, people would stay with the same provider year on year, paying their bills without thinking about how to reduce their tariffs or lower their spending. Attitudes have changed though, with people looking more and more into how they can shed …

Climate change is in the news most days, so we’re all aware of some of the major contributors; people are being encouraged to switch off lights and unplug all our gadgets to reduce electricity usage, drive less because of emissions from our cars and consider cutting red meat out of our diets. Our culture of flying all over the world for holidays is also under scrutiny, with the aviation industry also thought to be playing a major role in what many are now describing as a ‘climate emergency’. How much greenhouse gas does your home contribute? If you look a …

It’s hard to escape the headlines on the news about climate change, so all of us want to do our bit for the environment; when the problem seems so massive though, it’s hard to know where to start! So what can we do to help? The average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of five tonnes of CO2 per year, so there’s plenty of room for improvement from most of us! We can all take lots of small steps that will add up and make a huge difference over time. Here are our tips for easy changes around …