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 …
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 …
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 …
Preparing Your Home for an Unexpected Cold Snap
Who can forget those big old March snowstorms of three years ago? The ones that ground the UK to a halt and huddled the whole country under a frozen blanket. The weather in the UK, and further afield, is getting increasingly unpredictable with cold spells like that one seemingly coming from nowhere, potentially causing all kinds of problems in unprepared homes. The good news is that however unexpected a cold front might be, there are some easy things you can do to make sure you don’t end up forking out for damage that is easily preventable. PressureSentry It’s important to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
