External Wall Insulation versus Internal Wall insulation
With the re-launch of the GDHIF, there has been a lot of renewed interest in insulating solid walls in properties. There are two ways to insulate this type of wall – either internal wall insulation or external wall insulation. If…
Outdoor Heating – What are the most efficient options?
It is that time of year when the patio heaters get dusted down and fired up, not just in back gardens but in pubs and restaurants as well. We hear so often that patio heating is expensive to run and…
Best Way To Heat Your Home – Log Burner
Our View – Log Burners Log burners have soared in popularity over the past few years due to spiralling gas and electricity costs. This means that more and more people have turned to wood in order to cut down on fuel…
TheGreenAge is now part of the RetrofitWorks Cooperative!
Yesterday our membership to RetrofitWorks was confirmed. This is a network of small to medium enterprises aimed at reducing CO2 emissions as well as household energy bills. The cooperative is multi-stakeholder and owned by its members, making it the first…
Best Way to heat your home – heat pump
Our View – Heat Pumps Heat pumps are the most efficient way to heat an off-gas grid property. They utilise some really clever physics to convert electricity to heat at very high efficiency (anywhere from 250 to 450%). There are…
Best way to heat your home – Storage heaters
[Update: As nuclear and coal stations are wound down in the UK, this could mean the death of the Economy 7 tariff. This would mean storage heaters becoming more expensive to run, and as such we no longer recommend people install…
Best way to heat your home – Gas boiler
Our View – Gas Boilers If you are on gas grid, boilers are the cheapest way to heat your home in the long run. It can be pricey to switch over from electric heating, but the paybacks are good! The…
What is the best way to heat your home?
Over the next week are are going to put up blogs that look at the best way to heat your home – today we start with heating your home with a condensing energy efficient gas boiler. In each of the blogs…
How to change your electric meter
[UPDATE: Smart meters are now set to become the norm in UK households. You can read more about them here.] Why might you need to change your meters? There are lots of situations where you might need to switch meters…
Kilowatts and kilowatt hours
What is a watt? What is the difference between kilowatt-hours and kilowatts? To help you get a better idea of how much energy you are using, and how that relates to the power of your appliances, we have tried to…