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Monodraught’s Solar Powered Ventilation System
The Residential Sola-boost home ventilation system is designed to address the current trend towards tightly sealed, highly insulated homes, which suffer from overheating during summer months.
This ventilation systen combines highly efficient natural ventilation and a solar driven fan to provide true energy free operation, which reduces household energy bills and improves the carbon footprint.
Since warm air naturally rises to accumulate at ceiling level, this system should ideally be positioned above the stairs or landing, to allow warm air to be vented naturally out to atmosphere.
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The New Household Savers’ Guide From Together.Com
As cash-strapped consumers struggle to cope with rocketing prices and rising costs of living, Together – the UK’s largest climate campaign, has launched a new Savers’ Guide at www.together.com, which reveals easy ways for people to save money and the planet.
The new guide shows that an average UK household could save up to 3 tonnes of CO2 and up to £1,144 per year on household bills.
The savings can be made by simple everyday consumer actions, including switching to low energy light-bulbs, washing at 30 degrees, installing home insulation, switching to green energy tariffs and not upgrading mobile phones.
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The Smoon LED Lights From Inspired-By-Design
The Smoon Collection is a stunning new range of LED lights that create an ethereal glow in the home and outdoors to set the perfect mood.
The collection includes the Smoon Drop, Smoon Ombrella and the unique Watersmoon.
The Watersmoon in our picture, is a round wireless lamp, designed to move with ease from the house to the outdoors; described as a nomad lamp, it is intended for use anywhere and everywhere and with the ability to float on water it can even be used in the swimming pool:
Read more about : Garden Lights, Home Lighting
Inspirational Flights Of Fancy From Stairflight
Stairflight Ltd has been established in the UK for over 10 years, specialising in the manufacture and supply of exclusive contemporary staircases, from standard to spiral and bespoke designs.
Typically a new home interior would have a white pine staircase with traditional wooden spindles.
Now however, Stairflight offer a distinctive new system, where the staircase is completely open and appears to hang from the wall, allowing more light and space in your room.
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New Solar Powered Lighting From Solar Technology
Solar Technology is a specialist in solar power and is one of the largest producers of solar panels in the UK; the company has launched two new solar powered products designed to provide eco-friendly lighting in mains free environments.
Each Solar Mate lighting kit from Solar Technology is quick and easy to install, requiring no special tools and is ideal for UK weather conditions, featuring high power solar panels designed to absorb sun light even on dull, cloudy days.
When installing the new Solar Mate lighting kits there is no need to comply with Part P of the new building regulations introduced in the UK in 2005, whereby, a qualified electrician must complete all outdoor electrical work.
Read more about : Christmas Decorations, Home Lighting, Intercom Systems, Security Lighting
Control Your Home With Marmitek’s CM15Pro
Marmitek, specialists in the field of X-10 home automation, has introduced the CM15Pro computer interface, which along with the supplied ActiveHomePro software enables you to control and operate affordable home automation on your computer.
Marmitek brings comfort and safety to your home in an innovative manner, using the very latest techniques in the field of multimedia, video surveillance, home automation and security:
Once your settings are programmed in your computer, you can save them in the memory of the CM15Pro and it can be turned off:
Read more about : Home Automation, Home Entertainment, Home Lighting, Security Lighting, Security Services, Wireless Alarm Systems
Motorlight The World’s First Variable Angle Uplight
When he created Motorlight, designer Jake Dyson felt that contemporary home lighting –uplights in particular – had been neglected; functionality had been sacrificed for form; most designs were sculptural and the choice was somewhat limited.
After two years of development, Jake has realised his vision that a light can be versatile as well as beautiful, resulting in Motorlight, the world’s first variable angle uplight.
Motorlight enables you to adjust the angle of the beam from 8 degrees to 60 degrees wide, from a focused spotlight to a broader ambient light, in a striking modernist design.
Read more about : Home Lighting
Clear Your Green Conscience With Together.com
It isn’t always easy being green – whether it’s driving 20 metres to grab a pint of milk, because it’s just started raining, or sneaking up the thermostat so you can sleep with the covers off.
So have some fun this spring, by confessing all those eco-sins and lighten your conscience with The Green Confessional; you can bare all to Together.com’s online priest and have the chance to win a fantastic prize:
They are giving away a Brompton bike, cutting edge Voltaic solar backpacks and some sexy Wattson energy monitors.
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Homeowners Now Investing In Present Homes
Architect Your Home, are leading suppliers of architectural services for the homeowner market in the UK.
They have recently conducted a survey of over 500 respondents, which revealed that aspiring homeowners are now actively investing in their homes to avoid the ‘dead money’ involved with moving.
Hugo Tugman, architectural expert and founder of Architect Your Home commenting on the results, said:
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Let’s Deal With Climate Change Together
Together.com is independently approved by The Climate Group, which is an international charity dedicated to working with big business and government to help solve climate change.
Climate change can seem like an overwhelming problem, however doing something, even a small something, can help reduce emissions and your impact on the climate.
The Together Community believes that reducing emissions should be easy and have partnered with some top household brands, to produce a great range of products and ideas to help you do just that:
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