What Replaced the Renewable Heat Incentive? Your 2025 Guide to the Boiler Upgrade Scheme?
Who remembers the Renewable Heat Incentive? Feels like just yesterday, right? If you’re still an existing RHI participant, don’t worry, your payments will continue for the rest of your seven-year term. For everyone else, the RHI officially closed to…
What Is The Best Type Of External Wall Insulation?
External wall insulation is still one of the most popular ways to insulate a home. It’s perfect for solid wall buildings, where cavity insulation is impossible and internal insulation would mean sacrificing too much space. It’s also a chance to…
Read This Before Installing a Heat Pump
Read This Before Installing a Heat Pump In June last year, I moved into a new property in Oxfordshire. The house, I guess, could be considered a new build since it was built in the last couple of years, and…
What is the best way to draught-proof a chimney?
When we think of fireplaces, we think of them warming us up, not cooling us down. It’s true that fireplaces can be one of the best ways to heat a home. Although burning wood is not the cleanest and certainly…
Insulating the loft and floors
The most effective way to combat heat loss is certainly external wall insulation; however, loft and floor insulation is also crucial. The best way to tackle an insulation project is with a whole-house approach. Whilst 35% of heat loss is…
Why are my walls so cold?
It’s the chilly season, and we all know that means it’s time to turn up the thermostat and warm up our homes. But what if your walls seem to be leaching the heat from the room? What is the cause…
100 ways to save energy in your home
The ‘cost of living crisis’ is the expected to be most challenging event for families up and down the country as general price increases have now been coupled with exponential rises in energy costs. With these tough times ahead we…
Saving Energy in an Old House
Energy efficiency and saving energy in old houses is a notoriously difficult thing to do, especially in the UK where the weather is changeable and old house can mean VERY old house. So where do we even start with the…
Converting my shed into a home office
One of the major results of COVID-19 has been the huge increase in demand for home offices. With more and more of us working from home, the home office is the perfect solution to help separate home life from work…
Great Way to Check Your GBIS Eligibility with Insulation Grant Funding
As you know, here at The GreenAge, we’re always on the lookout for new tools that help you with energy efficiency. The Great British Insulation Scheme, or GBIS for short, is essentially the old ECO scheme with minor changes. However,…