Chances are your home has skirting boards. Conventionally, they serve the purpose of hiding the joint where the wall meets the floor, but now they can do much more than help the aesthetics of a home,...
We’ve all been in homes that have radiators on the walls to provide heating to the home, but they’re not the only way you can heat your home. Underfloor heating is one of the most popular...
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Homeowners could be saving up to £240 a year by simply using excess energy generated by their solar panels to heat hot water, say the Hot Water Association (HWA). The HWA revealed the figure in a...
Ofgem have released the new Feed-in Tariff (FiT) rates and they see the generation tariff sit at 3.93p/kWh from 1st July to 30th September 2018, inline with the expected quarterly degression. The...
At their latest conference, OFTEC outline ambitious plans to make over 400,000 off-grid homes oil-free from 2022. What does this mean for your oil boiler? As part of the government’s...
On 26th September 2018 a new legislation comes into place with strict restrictions on NOx emissions from domestic boilers manufactured and installed across the UK and Europe. This legislation has...
Getting free hot water whilst saving on your energy bills sounds like something that’s too good to be true, but thanks to a solar power diverter it can become a reality. Holding onto any...
Search online for energy saving tips and you’ll be met with pages upon pages of hints, tricks and secrets that promise to save you money on your energy bills. But which ones can you trust?...
SSE has become the last of the ‘Big Six’ energy companies to announce a hike in prices this year. Not only is it the last, but it’s also the biggest of them all with an increase of 6.7%. In...
Free air source heat pumps could soon be coming to the UK thanks to changes to the Government’s Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The Ref Assignment of Rights legislation, which comes into effect on...
According to the Gas Safe Register only two in five people check that their gas engineer is legally qualified before letting them into their home. This is extremely dangerous as it could put...
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have released a quarterly smart meter report showing that over 10 million smart meters have been installed in domestic properties (with a...
The new Feed-in Tariff rates have been released by Ofgem and the generation tariff now sits at 4.01 p/kWh. The figure has risen due to inflation, with it previously being set at 3.93 p/kWh. The rates...
During 2017 close to 5.5 million people switched their energy supplier in search of a better deal. The trend looks set to continue in 2018 with nearly 400,000 customers switching in January alone. ...
Once upon a time the idea of telling your home appliances what to do or expecting them to “know” what to do automatically (by talking to each other!) was science-fiction, magical, bordering on...
Installing a smart thermostat in your home is a simple and effective way to not only make your heating system easier to control (even when you’re not at home), but also to give you greater...
When you’re suddenly the owner of a broken boiler and your running hot water and cosy home disappears, it’s more than an inconvenience - it’s a real emergency. So who do you turn to in...
Households across the UK may see a rise in their energy bills as Ofgem raises the price cap for prepay customers by 5.6 per cent. What is the price cap? The safeguard tariff, or price cap as it...
Websites offering online boiler quotes are becoming more and more popular nowadays with many enabling you to find, compare, buy and book installation for your new boiler with simply a few clicks. ...
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