Home Energy
Why heating engineers say most people are warming the wrong thing
Central heating warms the building. There is an older idea that warms the person instead, and the arithmetic is not close.
Quiz
How much heat is your home actually losing?
Six questions about your windows, your loft and how you keep warm in the evening. At the end you get the specific losses worth fixing first — and the ones not worth the money.
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Bills
Which rooms actually cost the most to heat
It is rarely the biggest room. Three factors decide it, and only one of them is size.
Bills
Standby power: what is actually drawing current in your house
The advice to switch things off at the wall is decades old. The list of what it is worth doing for has changed considerably.
Practical
Draught-proofing that costs under £20 and takes an afternoon
Insulation is expensive and disruptive. Stopping air movement is neither, and it addresses the faster of the two heat losses.
Heating
Why your radiator is cold at the bottom and warm at the top
The symptom points to a different problem than the more familiar one at the other end, and bleeding it will not help.