One area of the home where a lot of heat gets lost is the front door. Depending on how busy your home is, with kids coming and going all the time, front doors can be forever being opened and closed letting the heat escape and allowing cold draughts to get in. Of course, we all [...]

Loft and cavity insulation are fundamental in helping to save energy and money. Because heat rises, preventing it from escaping out of the home makes your home heating system more effective and efficient. Loft and cavity insulation does cost a fair amount to install, however, due to government rules intended to make gas and electricity [...]

The New Year is the perfect time for people to start living a little greener and reducing the amount of energy they use and becoming all round more eco friendly. Getting started can be tricky, however, so a good approach is to look at the home room by room and work out ways you can [...]

As the weather gets colder, inevitably we spend money in maintaining the temperature of our homes. Of course, this also means we are using more energy, but it is possible to keep warm while saving both energy and money by making small changes around the home. One of the biggest causes of poor energy efficiency [...]

A new eco-friendly housing estate has been for Airedale, Yorkshire, which the local council has said will cut tenant’s energy by bills by nearly a half. The 91 homes, being built by Wakefield and District Housing, will have solar panels, heat ventilation systems, triple glazed windows, highly insulated walls and water recycling units, making the [...]

With winter arriving in earnest, and with fuel prices at a record high, keeping warm over the next few months could become costly. For people that live in older homes, heating can often be more costly. As homes age, doors and windows start to become less snug, often allowing in draughts and letting the heat [...]

The short-lived Indian summer seems to be over and the colder weather is beginning to creep in. Winter is around the corner and with recent rises in gas and electricity prices, not to mention a struggling economy, this winter may prove a costly one. Saving energy is not just an eco-friendly issue anymore, increasingly more [...]

Now autumn is here, the cold weather is creeping in and many of us are reluctantly looking at the heating and wondering how much longer we can avoid turning it on. And with such high price rises in gas and electric, it’s no surprise that many of us want to wait until it’s absolutely necessary [...]

Nearly all the major energy providers have increased the cost of their gas and electricity–some by up to 20 percent, and this prices are due to hit when most people will feel it the most–winter. Some people on a budget are really worried about these price rises, and nobody wants to find themselves in the [...]

Several of the UK’s leading gas and electric suppliers have announced massive price hikes on fuel, and the other major suppliers are expected to follow suit, with price rises of nearly 20% expected on fuel supplies. While this huge hikes in price are less noticeable now, during the summer, come winter, many people are going [...]