If you are considering installing Underfloor Heating and looking for the best possible information and its suitability for your property. Then you will be delighted to know that Excelsior Information Systems (the owner of UK Home Ideas) has now launched www.AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk.

The website offers a wealth of in depth information, to provide solutions to your queries, so that you are not only well equipped to select the best system for your property, but also to achieve the best deal for this very significant

Once you start doing research on the web, you’re likely to discover, as Excelsior did, that there is very little independent first-class information and advice on the subject out there.

Most sites belong to product manufacturers, trade bodies or other organisations with an agenda to promote.
So Excelsior embarked on a mission to generate the finest underfloor heating website in the UK, to provide an independent source of information for the underfloor heating buyer – and AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk is the result.

Quenton Fyfe, Excelsior’s MD commented, “Because we are a publishing company rather than an underfloor heating supplier, we have no agenda, or partiality, so we can offer you an honest synopsis of the whole market, with no hidden plan, and no strings attached.”
“We have spent many months, and invested heavily in commissioning extensive, original research into the Underfloor Heating market in the UK, to enable us to bring you detailed, independent information to help inform your buying decisions.”

“Our aim is to create the highest quality, most informative websites in the UK, in each market we enter.”

AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk offers the following articles about the product, such as “Wet Underfloor Heating” and “Saving Money With Underfloor Heating”, as well as consumer advice articles like “Choosing the right Underfloor Heating” and “Installing Underfloor Heating”.

There are many more articles in development, to ensure that AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk becomes the most comprehensive underfloor heating website available on the web.

So before making that important decision to buy a system in the UK underfloor heating market, why not prepare yourself, by reading the detailed articles on AboutUnderfloorHeating.co.uk ?

As an informed consumer, you’ll be well prepared to make the best choice, and get the best deal on your underfloor heating system!
We hope you enjoy this site, and find it helpful.

If you have any comments or suggestions, Excelsior will be pleased to hear from you.

The delightful vision of an open fire never fails to generate a warmer and cosy atmosphere in the home, but what if you don’t have a flue or gas supply and refuse to spend thousands of pounds on installing them?

The novel new range of biofuel fireplaces from Living It Up, may provide a stylish solution that’s sure to bring excitement and warmth to any environment.

• Living It Up’s ultra contemporary biofuel fireplaces can produce a striking feature for any room in the home:

• These versatile and easily moved fires can also be used outside, adding a glamorous aura to patios and gardens.

• Although it’s getting colder outside, if you have a versatile biofuel fire from Living It Up, you can drive out the chill and still relax outside on the patio.

• You don’t need a flue or chimney and there is no installation cost. whatsoever, due to bioethanol, a renewable and green energy source, derived from the sugars of wheat and rape seed. Furthermore these fires produce no more carbon dioxide than when you exhale.

Living It Up has tried hard to provide a choice of contemporary designs to suit most modern households:

Within the range you’ll find some table-top flames designed to create a romantic atmosphere at dinner.

Some freestanding fires to warm your living room; and some terrific column fires to provide a focal point in your garden.

The fires are all constructed of top-quality materials: high-grade stainless steel, tempered glass and durable paint.

So, if you’re looking for a non-toxic, clean, friendly and suitable fireplace–not to mention incredible contemporary and smart designs–then Living it Up has the solution!

Prices
Mazama Freestanding: £398.99.
Bora Freestanding: £499.
Magma: £499.
Irazu Coffee Table: £449. (Featured here.)
Tambora: £369.
Blaise: £399.

To view the new Living It Up collection of biofuel fireplaces, please visit the website.

Tel: (0116) 269 5960

The latest solution to deal with current dramatically rising gas bills is now available from Zenex with their GasSaver, an energy saving device, which reduces the gas consumption required for domestic hot water by up to 40%!

The Zenex GasSaver is a boiler flue attachment that recovers heat from the waste combustion gases normally lost, and uses it to pre-heat the domestic hot water supply.

It is installed on top of a standard gas boiler as part of the flue-way and recycles heat from the waste gas.

Chris Farrell, Managing Director at Zenex Technologies said: “With all of the big six energy providers raising their prices in the last months by up to 19%, millions of Britons face a huge increase in their gas bills. Many consumers are desperate for proven money-saving solutions that will reduce their soaring expenditures.”

“The Zenex GasSaver is a device that is easy to install, has no moving parts, is silent, and does not require any electricity or gas to operate. The device recovers heat from the flue gases and helps the boiler deliver hot water much faster to the tap, reducing the need to run lukewarm water down the drain, saving both water and energy consumption.”

With average gas consumption bills of £850 per household, the Zenex GasSaver can reduce the bills by up to £220 per year.

The patented GasSaver has been independently tested by the Building Research Establishment and added to their list of approved energy saving devices.

The Zenex GasSaver is priced around £500 and is a highly cost-effective addition to a new boiler installation.

It is sold under licence by the boiler manufacturers, Baxi and Alpha, as the Baxi MultiFit GasSaver and Alpha GasSaver.

The GasSaver is also recognised under the Government’s SAP scheme and can be used to count towards the energy rating of a dwelling. These energy savings, can also help a dwelling reach the various standards under the Code For Sustainable Homes.

For more details and a full technical specification of The Zenex GasSaver, please visit the website.

Looking forward to a joyous family Christmas in warmth and comfort, whilst the snow is deep and crisp outside?

You may well achieve your dream with a Harmony wood-burning stove from Euroheat.

The Harmony collection offers a great choice of stoves including traditional cast iron styling, coupled with the very latest heating technology, to make sure that your home is kept warm and welcoming throughout the festive period and beyond, while keeping that dreaded fuel bill to a minimum in the future.

It is a fact that wood-burning presents an environmentally friendly and energy efficient alternative to conventional heating methods, such as gas and oil.
However, the Harmony collection goes one step further, with the very latest heating and burning technology, to ensure maximum burn time with minimal wood consumption.

This includes a unique Plexus air supply system, which offers accurate stove control for high efficiency and long burning operation, plus Euroheat’s innovative ZR combustion technology, for highly advanced and clean combustion throughout the burning process.

There is nothing more welcoming than the sight of a real fire and with Harmony the view of the flames within the stove remains clear, thanks to the innovative air wash technology that keeps the double glazed door of the stove effortlessly clear and soot-free.

Available in a range of sizes and with various heat outputs to suit any size space, the Harmony wood-burning stove collection offers style and grace in abundance and will guarantee your home is kept warm and inviting, for family and visitors over the Christmas period, enabling you to sit back, relax and let it snow.

For further information and to view the Euroheat Harmony choice of stoves, please visit the website.

Tel: (01885) 491100

This year Baxi launched their latest range of combi and system boilers, which all come with the THINK combustion management system, the cutting edge in boiler technology.

The great new range includes:

The brand new Baxi Neta-tec Combi - compact dimensions make this the perfect choice for homes where space may be limited

The Baxi Duo-tec – with additional features that made this award-winning original so popular, increasing energy efficiency and reliability.

The Megaflo System Compact – now with cupboard fit; this boiler is compatible with the Baxi Solarflo solar thermal range, making it a great system boiler for the future.

The THINK Combustion Management System.

• Gas adaptive control: continually monitors the air and gas coming in and adjusts to make sure the burner in your boiler is always working at maximum efficiency. This means you always get the heat you are paying for, for the lifetime of your boiler.

• Wide modulation range: this means that your boiler works at 100% when you need the most heat, but as your home warms up, it turns itself right down so that the temperature you have set is maintained without the boiler switching itself on and off.

• Less gas is used as a result and, consequently, lower fuel bills. It also means that your boiler doesn’t have to work so hard, so there’s less wear and tear on its parts, making it much more reliable.

• Also, because you’re not using so much gas, your carbon footprint is smaller too!

• Automatic set up: All the new Baxi boilers are suitable for both natural gas and LPG. When fitted by your installer , the boiler recognises the gas type and adapts itself accordingly, making it much easier and quicker to install.

The Benefits: Baxi boilers are now quicker to install, helping you to save more on your fuel bills.
Offer lifetime combustion efficiency and set a new benchmark in reliability.

For further information about Baxi’s latest central heating boilers, please visit the website.

Wood burning stoves and open fires are making a comeback, due to concerns about ever increasing energy prices and people looking for more eco friendly ways to heat their homes.

Wood burning stoves in particular, are more environmentally friendly and cheaper than regular heating methods, especially if you season and prepare the wood yourself:

Slow burning and smokeless fuel is produced when wood is allowed to dry naturally and weathered over time.

A sturdy log store is needed to store and season the wood, but it can make a striking garden feature, and by gradually stocking it up during summer, you can provide enough free fuel for the entire winter!

The robust British made log store featured here, is constructed from high-pressure treated wood, making it much harder-wearing than it might otherwise be. It is delivered in flat pack form and can be erected easily by one person.
Available online from GreenStamp priced at £275.

These log stores are made in the UK from the finest quality timber, all with FSC certification every process from harvesting, debarking, rounding, profiling and machining, is undertaken with the highest level of care and precision by a highly skilled workforce.

To view Green Stamp’s extensive collection of garden log stores, please visit the website.

Tel: (01637) 854717

Homes now using log burning stoves, wood burners or multi-fuel stoves, in the UK now number around one million.

It is essential these days to find a reliable and cost effective fuel supply, especially as the winter months draw closer - keeping an open fire stoked can be expensive.

Another freezing cold and snowy winter is predicted by experts this year. *

Add to that the average 11% rise for electricity and 18% rise in gas bills, and finding cheaper alternatives becomes crucial.

A smart solution is provided by Verdo renewable wood briquettes, which burn for twice as long as traditional logs and are sourced from renewable, managed wood supplies:

• One pallet of Verdo briquettes costing less than £300 delivered to your home - has the same output as 10m3 seasoned wood, that would cost around £800, or 500L of heating oil, which costs over £300 but does create more serious carbon emissions than wood burning and is not sustainable.

• Ideal for open fireplaces and wood burning or multi-fuel stoves, Verdo wood briquettes are more eco-friendly, convenient and cost effective than logs or coal.

• The briquettes are clean, compact, can be split by hand and create minimum levels of ash (typically less than 1%), so less cleaning up is needed. And they don’t leave that black soot on the glass door of your wood burner either.

Managing Director at Verdo, Richard Smith said:

“Many people don’t realise the saving they could be making by swapping their normal logs for wood briquettes. One of our pallets will last the average consumer a whole year and is the same weight as five bags of logs - but burns for twice as long.

”It’s still a fairly new option in the UK, but is well established in Scandinavia, a region which knows all about how to keep warm.”

The Verdoi wood briquettes have historically been available through hardware stores, garden centres, fuel suppliers, log burner and stove retailers.

For further information about Verdo wood briquettes, please visit the website.

Tel:   (01264) 342 000* Weather experts www.exactaweather.com predict that 2011 / 2012 will follow the same pattern as last winter with early snow fall and very low temperatures especially in Scotland.
**Fuel prices taken from http://www.metro.co.uk/news/870083-fuel-bills-rise-170-as-third-firm-ups-cost.

With gas and oil prices in the UK continuing to increase significantly, homeowners are eager to control the cost of central heating by saving energy.

This key issue is being addressed by heating control specialists Chalmor Ltd with their new eTRV - an innovative, British-made thermostatic electronic radiator valve that can potentially save on gas or oil central heating costs, typically by between 15% and 25%.

This clever invention makes it simple for the central heating radiators in every room to be individually and easily operated by using the eTRV’s neat, slim remote controlled handset.

This multiple award winning energy-saving product is now available for use in homes and in commercial and public buildings in the UK:

Existing thermostatic radiator valves can easily be replaced by eTRV at home by simply unscrewing and replacing with eTRV.

However, if thermostatic radiator valves are not already fitted then eTRV needs to be fitted professionally.

Each radiator can be controlled not only individually, but also in an exceedingly flexible way:

• For example, in the home, the bathroom could be heated throughout the day - to a comfortable temperature in the morning, a low temperature in the day and an economy temperature in the evening.

• Similarly a sitting room could be heated just on weekday evenings, but all afternoon and evening at weekends.

• Fitting the eTRV also removes the need for older or less able people to bend down, as using the remote control handset they can now adjust their warmth levels from the comfort of their armchair.

• The eTRV is also compatible with home automation systems.

An additional cost saving factor on eTRV is the reduction of VAT from 20% down to 5% if supplied and fitted by a registered tradesman, such as a VAT-registered plumber or heating engineer.

Retail price of the eTRV is £49.99+VAT and the handset costs £9.99+VAT.

For more information and advice about the Chalmon eTRV, please visit the website.

Tel:   (0843) 2895022

We are all facing another large increase in fuel prices in the UK this winter, so now might be the right time to consider installing a multi fuel or wood burning stove.

A wood burning stove can save around £400 a year on your energy bills.

There are many other benefits of installing a stylish wood burning stove in your home:

• Open fireplaces let up to 90% of the heat escape up the chimney, thus wasting fuel and burning money.

• Performance of multi fuel or wood burning stoves, is measured in efficiency ratings and the higher the rating, the more efficient the stove.

• High performance stoves cost a lot less to run, typically attain 80% efficiency, cleaner burning and produce fewer carbon emissions.

• Well-designed wood burning stoves are lined with vermiculite - a natural mineral that expands with the application of heat. Vermiculite helps to increase the stove temperature improving efficiency, saves money on fuel as less wood is burned.

• A wood burning stove is a much cleaner option than an open fire.

• For instance, when using a WilsonBailey wood burning stove every day, the ash pan only needs emptying once a fortnight, which is nothing like as messy as clearing out an open fire grate daily.

• WilsonBailey high performance multi fuel and wood burning stoves are British made, and suitable for all homes. Priced from £1450.

Another essential feature to include when you’re considering installing a wood burning stove is a ‘clean glass’ airwash system, which ensures you will always see the flickering flames and glowing embers. A poorly designed stove means you’ll end up cleaning the blackened window on a regular basis..

If you haven’t used your fireplace for a long time it’s essential to get an inspection to check the chimney is sound and the flue is in good working order, by consulting a professional chimney sweep in your local area. (The National Association of Chimney Sweeps).

Finally, when it comes to installing your multi fuel or wood burning stove, always get it done by an expert.

For detailed information about WilsonBailey stoves, or help with both installation questions and general stove enquiries, please visit the website.

Tel: (01202) 894 549

The UK launch of the unique Oxyvent Tank, will be great news for homeowners eager to cut heating costs in the home.

This pioneering new tank, which is small enough to fit into an airing cupboard, cuts fuel use, heating bills and carbon emissions, whilst heating a home more efficiently.

It will even solve common domestic heating problems and reduce maintenance costs, in any of the 22 million homes in the UK with a water-based heating system – new or old.

Paul Worswick, Oxyvent Director, said: “Colder winters and rising heating bills mean people want products that will drive down heating bills, but they also want to make sure they feel the benefit of the heating they do pay for.”

What does the Oxyvent tank do?

• It forces radiators to radiate more heat out into the centre of a room so homeowners get the benefit of the heat, not the walls or ceilings as happens with conventional systems.

• It imposes boiler temperatures to be set at 60 degrees (65 degrees when heating water), using much less fuel thus cutting the cost of heating bills.

• It increases the efficiency of condensing boilers as the cooler water running through the system, means the boiler will be in condensing mode a lot more of the time, saving more fuel and money.

• It makes hot water flow around the central heating system much faster, which fixes problems such as odd radiators in a home that don’t work or radiators with cold areas.

• It takes the air out of a central heating system, so there is no need to bleed radiators and it also radically reduces corrosion in radiators, reducing the build up of sludge and reducing the need for power flushing.

• When an Oxyvent Tank is installed with a condensing boiler, the savings and efficiencies are significantly increased compared to a standard boiler installation.

How much energy and money does it really save?
Following thousands of installs in Ireland, where the Oxyvent patented technology was invented, testing by Trinity College Dublin found that people felt 30% more comfortable in a room heated by a boiler with an Oxyvent tank installed set to 63 degrees, than when the boiler was set to 74 degrees prior to installation.

Taking an energy bill of £1200, £684 of this goes on heating space in your home (57% according to DECC energy trends 2009). With energy providers announcing price rises of up to 18%, homeowners could see this rise to £807.
Installs to date show the Oxyvent could save up to 30% on energy bills, so a house with an Oxyvent tank installed would see the central heating portion of their bill drop to £565. That’s an overall saving of £242.

Launch price of £495 RRP exc. VAT if purchased before 1st October 2011. Usual price £560 RRP. exc. VAT.

The Oxyvent tank is available to order online at www.oxyvent.com.

For more detailed information on the Oxyvent central heating tank, please visit the website.
Tel: (01403) 280 164