Saving Energy at Home...
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Can a Wood Burning Stove Reduce My Heating Bills?
The idea of providing a large proportion of your heating with a cosy wood burning stove may also seem like an attractive idea but when it comes...
Can You Make a Stately Home Ecofriendly?
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...
DIY and Gardening
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 reduce your...
Do You Need Bottled Water?
Bottled water has become a sort of fashion accessory during the last few years both in America and Europe, where the water that comes out of the tap is extremely...
Does Having Appliances on Standby Use Power?
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...
Does it Pay to Change Electricity and Gas Suppliers?
Until fairly recently, everyone got their gas through British Gas and their electricity through their own regional electricity company. In the...
Edwardian Terrace Into the 21st Century: A Case Study
The Roberts family live in a large Edwardian terrace in Reading, close to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where Chris used to work as a midwife....
Energy Efficient Kitchen
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 this high level of...
Energy Saving and Washing
Washing clothes and drying and ironing them are chores that most of us could do without but they are necessary. It used to take a lot longer – Victorian washdays...
Energy Saving Products
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, washing machine’s is...
Home Composting
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 easy way to begin your...
Home Information Packs
Since their introduction in August 2007, Home Information Packs have certainly caused a stir in the property market, and opinions have clashed from those who love – or...
How House Building is Going Green
House building is taking a greener turn, if recent government policies are anything to go by. That means the days that architecture, house design and construction of...
I Used a Power Predictor Anemometer: A Case Study
After getting through some hard times in the last few years on his large farm near North Berwick in Scotland, Gus is cautious about spending too...
Insulating and Heating Your Home
Keeping your house comfortable and cozy particularly during the winter months is one of the biggest preoccupations in any household. As such, energy bills are one of the...
Reducing Your Monthly Household Bills
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...
Save Energy Through Your Appliances
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 lives easier but most...
Summer Energy Savers
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 thinking about saving...
The Energy Efficient Home Office
The concept of working from home and telecommuting has not yet become as widespread as it could, but having people working from home, either permanently, or on some...
Washing and Cleaning
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 laundry. Getting the...
What Are Feed in Tariffs?
Feed in tariffs are mentioned quite often in articles and discussions about renewable energy, but what exactly is a feed in tariff? Essentially, this term describes...
What is the Boiler Scrappage Scheme?
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, low efficiency...
Winter Energy Savers
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 season that we tend to...
Working Out What Your Heater Will Cost
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...
Zero Carbon Homes
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 change – our homes....
