Saving Energy at Home

If you live in an ordinary house it is not that easy to be environmentally friendly and few of us can claim to have homes that are carbon neutral....

Saving energy in the home is much more than switching lights off and unplugging appliances. There are more unusual and less obvious ways that you can...

You might think that when you switch an electrical appliance off, it uses no power, but you could not be more wrong. Many appliances now have a...

Until fairly recently, everyone got their gas through British Gas and their electricity through their own regional electricity company. In the late...

The kitchen is the centre of most households – where meals are prepared eaten and enjoyed, and where much of the housework takes place. Of course...

When trying to use less energy in the home it’s important to choose energy saving products to support your efforts. If your boiler’s on the blink,...

Fancy getting green fingered in the garden but don’t know how to get started? Establishing your own home composting system at home is a quick and...

Home Information Packs, or HIPs, are compulsory for home sellers to provide when putting their home on the market & include an energy performance...

House building is to take a green turn, with legislation keeping climate change & global warming central to the architecture, home design &...

Keeping your house comfortable and cozy particularly during the winter months is one of the biggest preoccupations in any household. As such, energy...

Reducing outgoings is top priority for most households. But short of unplugging the phone and turning the boiler off, saving money on your bills is...

No 21st century household would be complete without a range of gizmos and gadgets to help make quick work of day-to-day tasks. These items make our...

When the long sunny summer months arrive, it’s time to get out of the house into the garden and the outdoors. It’s not the traditional time for...

Household chores are a daily – or at least weekly - task for most of us from vacuuming rooms and cleaning the bathroom or kitchen to doing the...

Feed in tariffs are fees paid to households that generate their own renewable energy and feed the excess produced into the national grid. They are an...

The boiler scrappage scheme follows on from the UK government’s recent initiative on car scrappage. It’s a scheme to encourage people with older,...

When the nights draw in and the chill of winter hits our homes it’s the time to wrap up warm and enjoy the indoors. Unfortunately, it’s also the...

With rising fuel bills from all suppliers and future predictions that fuel will become even more expensive in the near future, we all have to think...

With green issues high on the agenda this year there’s a lot being talked about and introduced to tackle one of the biggest contributors of climate...