It’s not everyday you can easily find a local boiler engineer rated by local people like you and me but our sister site Boiler Guide has been set-up to change this, by searching via your postcode or directly through the navigational map you can hone in and find oil or gas engineers located closest to [...]

Installing loft insulation of adequate thickness can reduce your heating bills and your carbon footprint. Indeed if you have loft insulation of a thickness less than 10″ or no loft insulation at all, anything up to 20% of the heat energy from your heating system may be disappearing through the roof of your home. Loft [...]

UK Grants for Heating and Energy Efficiency
If you are planning to make any form of energy efficiency to your home financial assistance is widely available. The British Government funds various different schemes – “Warm Front” in England, “Home Energy Efficiency Scheme” in Wales, “Warm Deal” in Scotland and “Warm Homes” in Northern Ireland – for [...]

Central Heating
The concept of central heating is – or should be – well understood by householders in the United Kingdom with no fewer than 22 million households relying on a central heating system to provide them with warmth and hot water on demand. The most popular central heating systems involve the combustion of a fossil [...]

With the world becoming increasingly aware of alternative and renewable heating sources it’s nice to a see new site covering greener methods that emit little or no Co2 emissions, the gas that is killing our environment. Green Heating has published some interesting articles covering innovative ways to insulate and heat your home without burning fossil [...]

It’s the last thing on your mind, it’s hot outside and you don’t need to buy a new central heating system or boiler, it can wait, right?, wrong. Summer is the ideal time to shop around, get the best deal and buy, suppliers and installers are quietest at this time of year and are just [...]

I’d like to welcome our newest advertiser on board, Hot Floors Underfloor Heating, Hot Floors is a UK based supplier specialising in electrical underfloor heating for various applications including Kitchens, Conservatories & Bathrooms.

All Hot Floor products are manufactured exclusively in Scandinavia, the leader in underfloor heating providing Scandinavian quality conforming to UK legislation.
Underfloor Heating [...]

This is one of the most common questions I get asked, “how much does central heating cost?” it’s also probably one of the hardest to answer, even ball park figures are very difficult to provide as there’s so many different factors involved.
But to give you an idea a typical price bracket is £1,500 to £3,000 [...]

Boiler breakdowns are thankfully quite infrequent but when they do occur costs can be high. Modern condensing combi boilers are complicated systems with advanced electronics and controls which require trained and certified engineers to work on them, this comes at a price. Not only is the labour expensive but parts cost can be high as [...]

Are you using alternative heating methods to heat your home? Alternative heating methods have gained in popularity as the prices of energy have been steadily rising. Consider solar power, geo-thermal heating, stoves, biodiesel fuels and corn stoves to as an alternative to your current heating systems.
Solar Power
Probably the most well known method for heating the [...]