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UK Consumers In The Dark On Cutting Energy Bills
Together.com is a consumer engagement campaign, which has helped UK households reduce CO2 emissions by one tonne over three years.
Many of the UK’s favourite brands are united behind the campaign to provide millions of customers with a growing range of new products and ideas that make it easier to reduce their CO2 emissions.
Switching to energy saving light bulbs would save UK households £1.2 billion every year; almost two thirds of the UK’s consumers are still in the dark, about how much money switching to energy saving light bulbs could save them.
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Save Money And Energy With Solar Panels From B&Q
With colder winter nights and mornings now upon us, many people are boosting their home heating to keep warm, which means that their energy bills and carbon footprint will go up!
Easy and cost effective advice is available from B&Q on how to make your home more energy efficient and lower your bills and your impact on the environment this winter.
Why not consider Solar Panels, which can deliver supplementary hot water directly into your existing hot water cylinder, or integrated with your combi boiler system to help cut your fuel bills – saving you money as well as reducing the effects of global warming.
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Home Energy Efficiency Made Easy At B&Q
B&Q’s extensive new range of energy efficiency products make it easy to help limit your impact on the environment and make savings on your home energy bills this winter, by taking small steps to effect big changes.
Wrap-up Warm – Over a quarter of your home’s heat is lost through your loft, so insulation makes good sense; with new innovations and buy one get one free on all rolls of insulation, there’s never been a better time to think about insulating your home.
B&Q stocks a variety of loft insulation products including:
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Powergen Invites You To Take The Energy Challenge
UK residents are being recommended to take Powergen’s Energy Challenge, which can cut up to £160 a year off their energy bills* and reduce their carbon footprints. (Takes just 15 minutes.)
Powergen, which is part of E.ON, one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies, is asking people to take the simple challenge by visiting their website.
The Energy Challenge site provides an-online-shop that enables people:
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Stylish Home Storage Solutions From Deane Direct
Deane Direct specialise in home storage solutions and supply both solid and mirrored wardrobe door kits, to enable you to make 100% use of available space; the doors are tailor-made for self assembly and adapt to most room shapes and sizes.
You can choose from two striking ranges for your new wardrobe:
The Metro Collection as seen here, which features 3 or 4 panel doors with cool aluminium door-frames that slide like a dream; then choose two elements to make up the doors from mirror, solid wood colour panels or coloured glass, or
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Self Build With Potton For A Better Environment
Climate change, CO2 emissions, thermal efficiency, carbon footprints and recycling are all hot topics on today’s environmental agenda.
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Following the recent Kingspan Group acquisition of Potton Homes, the company will now offer a range of contemporary house designs, featuring smart eco-options, to provide first class environmental efficiencies for both self builders and developers alike.
Potton the leading UK self build company, is best known in that market for it’s award winning range of Tudor style Heritage house designs.
Potton’s timber frame packages already comply with the Government’s building regulations for thermally efficient homes, however, this year Potton will be increasing it’s eco-offering with products from the Kingspan Group.
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The Homebuilding & Renovating Show Visits Newbury
The Newbury Homebuilding & Renovating Show at the Newbury Showground on 23rd and 24th June is a must for homeowners wishing to source the right products and services to convert, extend, renovate or build their house.
If you are motivated to create a dream home that reflects your personality, the Newbury Homebuilding & Renovating Show offers a one-stop shopping opportunity as the Show plays host to over 120 exhibitors and offers a wealth of advice and information from the experts, to enable you to find the right products and services.
Worried about finance or how to assess a property’s potential? These are just two of the subjects covered in the comprehensive programme of free seminars running every day of the show. Tickets are issued on a first-come-first-served basis, so get there early to avoid disappointment.
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Key Facts On Self Build From Potton Homes
Over 20,000 people build their own homes in the UK each year, accounting for one in eight of all new homes and more than the largest commercial house builder.
Self built properties are estimated to be worth 30% more than their build cost. For example, if a property costs £250,000 to build, including land, materials and labour, the approximate market value of the property would be £325,000.
A recent survey carried out for BuildStore by YouGov revealed that we are a nation of self builders at heart including:
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Potton’s New Self Build Forum For Speed Building
Speed Building is a new concept in housing developed by the UK self build experts Potton Ltd, as a fast and easy way of creating the perfect home to suit your lifestyle.
The company brings all the services you need to design and build your home under one roof, starting with research and finishing with your completed dream home.
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The Speed Building experience starts with Potton’s new Self Build Forum, the fastest way to find out about the self build process; meet both self build experts and other self builders at the same time.
Held free of charge, every fortnight at Potton’s conference and leisure centre, Wyboston Lakes, the Self Build Forum begins with a one hour introduction to self build, which covers each stage of the process from finding land to claiming the VAT back.
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ProblemSolved Sorts The Men From The Cowboys
Last year the Trading Standards dealt with over 100,000 complaints about second-rate trades people – the shoddy work of rogue builders, plumbers and electricians ranking as one of Britain’s biggest grievances in 2006.
So when you need a trustworthy trades person, how do you avoid becoming a victim? Finding a reliable tradesperson in the telephone directories is a little like playing Russian roulette!
With this in mind, property journalist Alison Cork founded problemsolved.co.uk – an online directory of recommended and vetted trades people.
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The directory provides information about professionals from 120 trade categories, ranging from plumbers to garden designers; Problem Solved sources its members by public recommendation before vetting them for quality.
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