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Electric Combi Boilers: A Cost-Effective Way To Heat Small Homes?

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Homeowners that care about the environment, or live in one of the 2 million houses in the UK that are not connected to a gas supply, could consider installing an electric combination boiler.

Due their compact size, electric combi boilers are ideal for smaller homes that have limited storage space and less demand for hot water.  They are a suitable choice as a replacement boiler to reduce energy bills and protect the environment.

Because electric boilers do not have any CO2 emissions, they cause less air pollution. Not only that, they are less expensive to install and do not need maintenance checks like gas or oil boilers.

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Oil Fired Combi Boilers

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It is estimated there are around 4 million homes in the UK that do not have access to gas or electricity. A suitable alternative for people living in rural areas is to install an oil-fired combi- boiler.

Oil-fired boilers are one of the most cost-effective methods of fuelling a central heating system, although the price of fuel can fluctuate. Prices are typically 4.9p per 1KwH compared to 4.2p for gas and 16p for electricity or 6-8p on the Economy 7 tariff.

However, oil fired boilers are more expensive to purchase and install than gas or electric boilers. Estimated costs range between £4000-£5000 for the cost of the boiler and installation.

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Secondary Glazing – Better Than Double Glazing?

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Double glazing has been the leading choice of replacement windows for years now. These days, however, secondary windows are prompting homeowners to rethink their options – and with good reason.

Secondary glazing is a cost-effective solution for insulating and sound-proofing your home. The windows are lightweight, easy to fit and do not require much maintenance.

Sliding windows may not be able to match double glazing windows in terms of aesthetics, but they do have a certain amount of charm and elegance. They are also unobtrusive and come in a wide variety of styles.

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Ideal Boilers: Everything You Need To Know

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If you’re looking for an energy-efficient replacement boiler, the UK manufacturer, Ideal has a solid selection of affordable heating systems.

The best boiler for you will depend on the heating needs of your household, but your options are to choose from a combination boiler, regular heat boiler or a system boiler.

Ideal has a wide selection of boilers that are suitable for all types of properties throughout the UK, and with a history that spans more than 100 years, the company has a solid reputation for producing reliable boilers that are easy to install and affordable to buy.

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Hive v Nest: Which Is Best For Your Home?

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The switch to eco-friendly heating systems for your home has seen the introduction of smart thermostats. These intelligent devices reduce energy wastage and make heating your home more convenient.

Since 2011, the Nest thermostat, which incorporates Google technology, was by far the most impressive. However, the 2nd-generation Hive Active Heating manufactured by British Gas is in contention to be a serious challenger.

In this guide, we review both Hive and Nest to determine what each of the thermostats offer and which is best suited to your lifestyle.

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What Is A System Boiler?

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The government’s drive to reduce the UK’s carbon footprint has prompted millions of householders across Britain to upgrade their central heating systems.

System boilers are best suited to large households with two bathrooms and sufficient storage space to accommodate a hot water tank or cylinder.

Modern boilers are much more energy efficient than old boilers and can save hundreds of pounds on your heating bill. According to estimates published by The Energy Savings Trust, detached homes can save as much as £305 a year.

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Free Boiler Grants: All You Need To Know

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In accordance with the Government’s boiler grant scheme, the UK’s ‘Big Six’ energy companies are giving away free replacement boilers to qualifying homeowners and private tenants.

Under the free boiler scheme – ECO (Energy Companies Obligation) – low-income households could be entitled to upgrade to an energy-efficient boiler free of charge, or at the very least, heavily subsidised. Landlords with low income tenants may also be eligible.

Given the average cost of replacing an inefficient gas boiler is around £2,300, it is worth your while exploring the possibility of applying for a free boiler grant.

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Best Pet Insurance – Get the Best Deal

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More than half of British homes have a pet – cats are the most popular followed closely behind by dogs. They’re fun-loving, affectionate, and proper members of the family.

We feel worry and anxiety when they are ill and this is closely followed, for pet owners without insurance, with more worry and anxiety about the vet bills we incur to make them well again. In fact, according to a report in the Wall St Journal, a quarter of our cats and dogs have pet insurance taken out for them.

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Best Breakdown Cover Guide

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What’s the best way to find the right breakdown cover for your car or vehicle? Do you apply direct, use a price comparison site, or look through the thousands of car breakdown cover reviews available online?

There are now more car breakdown companies than ever before meaning that competition to provide the top breakdown cover policy at the best price is intense. And it’s always worth shopping around because, as was reported in the Express, “drivers (are being) hit with a 124 per cent price increase” with the AA when they renew for a second year’s cover.

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Best home insurance

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Just like council tax and the TV licence fee, home insurance is one of those items that you have to spend money on even though you might not want to. If you’ve paid home insurance for the last ten years or more and never made a claim, paying out for something that’s not likely to happen to you can be frustrating.

However, home insurance is there to cover us if something really bad happens to our home (damage, fire, flood, and so on) or to what we have inside our homes (white goods, furniture, valuables, and more). There is so much competition between home insurance providers that we decided to put together this easy-to-follow guide on everything you need to know about getting the right home insurance for you.

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Best travel insurance

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One in five Brits don’t take out insurance when they go abroad and that’s despite the sizeable number of benefits and safeguards that these policies offer to both travellers and holidaymakers.

One reason behind that might be best summed up in this Financial Times headline – “travel insurance: so complicated, you’ll need a holiday”. So, how do you choose the best travel insurance policy or best holiday insurance to suit your needs and your budget?

Best travel insurance – guide prices

Each travel insurance policy varies in both price and coverage. The current leading companies in the insurance market include:

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Vaillant Boiler Prices

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Replacing your existing Vaillant boiler is something you should do every 10-15 years. As time goes by, boilers get less and less efficient meaning that the water is not always as hot as you want it to be, your boiler has trouble supplying the radiator with what it needs, and your utility bills go up. What are Valiant boiler prices in 2018, what choice of Vaillant boilers are available, and how much does a typical Vaillant boiler installation cost?

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2018 Worcester Bosch Boiler Prices

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If you’re looking to save money on a Worcestershire Bosch boiler installation or replacement, what’s the best way to get the right price for you? To help you, our team have done the research, crunched the numbers, and figured out the very best way to get the perfect Worcester Bosch boiler at a cost within your budget that will save you money for years to come on your energy bills.

What are the current Worcester Bosch boiler prices supply only and with installation? We asked a number of installers up and down the UK to provide us with their average prices and this is what they told us:

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Home CCTV Installation Cost

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Finding the cost of CCTV system for your home can be difficult – and even more challenging to find a comprehensive home CCTV price guide to help you make an informed decision.

If you’re currently looking into house CCTV prices and you want to know the options that are available to you, we’ve created this article to help you. We’ll not only provide realistic price ranges for different types of cameras and CCTV systems – we’ll also highlight important aspects you must consider before making that all-important purchase.

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Bifold Doors Price Guide

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Bifold doors are becoming one of the UK’s most popular home improvements and it’s really not hard to see why. Interior and exterior designers think of bifold doors as a genuine luxury-level addition to a home. Once only for the rich and famous, bifold door prices have been coming down in recent years making them an increasingly affordable addition to a home.

Imagine being able to open up the back of your home so that your indoor living space and outdoor gardens became one beautiful, seamless area? If you’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a balcony overlooking your gardens and the wider countryside beyond, imagine being able to make the balcony part of an indoor/outdoor entertaining and chill-out zone.

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Laser Eye Surgery Cost Guide

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If you’ve worn glasses for year or if you find yourself going through the daily struggles of fiddling with (and even possibly losing) your contact lenses, then the odds are that, like most of us, you thought about Laser eye treatment as that much needed permanent solution.

Being one of the single most commonly performed elective procedures in the UK, there appear to be fewer and fewer reasons not to undertake this simple surgical solution to your issues.

What is laser eye surgery?

Simply put, laser eye surgery, is the use of lasers or precision surgical instruments in order to reshape the cornea of the eye and improve one’s clarity of vision.

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Boiler Service Cost

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We’ve all experienced the hell of a boiler breakdown! No hot running water – no showers – iceblock radiators. It’s like being a student again!

That’s why experts always recommend that we should have our boilers regularly serviced as part of an ongoing maintenance cycle. Because boilers always break down when you least need them to and because they can be very expensive to repair if left unchecked for too long. How often should you service your boiler? How much does a gas boiler service cost?

In this article, we’ll be looking at every aspect of boiler servicing and why it’s so important.

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Flat Pack Homes Price Guide

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Given the high cost of ownership, many British people are opting for a flat pack house as an alternative. Flat pack homes/prefab homes are growing in popularity, so, if you’re looking at a flat pack home for yourself, what are the current flat pack home prices (prefab home prices)?

The term “flat pack homes” does not really do these exciting, modern-looking houses made stylish by clean lines and recyclable building material justice.

Many people also mistake flat pack homes with the prefab homes that were built for returning heroes and their families in the aftermath of the second world war. (Please remember though that most of those prefab homes are still standing and are beloved to those people living in them).

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Burglar Alarm Cost

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How much to fit a burglar alarm? House alarm systems (including wireless alarms) have been popular with British home owners since the 1970s. Even though home burglary numbers have been dropping in recent years, having your home broken into and your valuables stolen is a very real fear for many.

So what is the average burglar alarm installation cost? For the simplest types of alarms you can install yourself, you’ll be looking at spending £125-£300 depending on the number of sensors you choose for your home. Systems that call or message you start at around £175 and range up to £350. Monitored systems can start from £99 and cost between £15-45 a month thereafter.

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Solar Battery Storage

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Solar battery storage is a reliable, emerging, and exciting technology which has been gaining greater popularity year on year here in Britain.

Why? As energy prices go up year after year, more and more UK homeowners are looking for ways to significantly reduce their electricity and energy costs permanently.

It’s no wonder. It’s never been more expensive to heat and light our homes.

For some, the answer to saving money comes by changing suppliers. In 2017 according to Energy UK, a record five-and-a-half million UK households switched to different utilities providers, saving an average of £250 a year.

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Free Solar Panels

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Free solar panels – surely they’re all free anyway because the money you make from them over 25 years is more than the money you’ll outlaid?

Yes that’s true. However, many people really do want to have a solar panel system installed on their properties but it’s the upfront cost that puts them off. You eventually make your money back and a little on top.

If that’s your situation, is there any solar panel funding available? What about for your business?

What can you do to get the solar panel system you want for your property? Is there a local solar scheme in your area?

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Solar Roof Tiles

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Solar roof tiles provide homeowners with the chance to benefit from the savings that can be made with solar panels but who don’t want traditional solar panels on their roofs.

There are advantages and disadvantages to choosing solar tiles over solar panels. The average solar panel installation is a 3kW system costing £4,000-£6,000. Replace solar panels with solar tiles and you’re looking at a cost of £10,000-£12,000 instead. Is it worth the difference?

In this article, we’ll look at:

  • how solar tiles work,
  • what they cost,
  • what sort of money you can save by using them, and
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How To Repoint a Wall

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Bricks and mortar make for hugely sturdy foundations for any building, but sometimes top-ups are necessary to prevent weather damage and general damage from eroding the quality of a construction. The application of mortar to bricks during building, with the intention of holding the bricks together and preventing the elements from seeping inside a home and causing water damage, is know as pointing.

Unfortunately, mortar does not tend to last as long as brickwork, and thus may need to be replaced – a process known as repointing. However, it is essential that this work is undertaken professionally, and only when necessary – a substandard repointing job can actually do more harm than good to the integrity of a wall. This guide will talk you through the process of repointing a brick wall.

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