The concept of home improvements can be met with eyes filled with dread in many cases, because of the associated cost of many of the upgrades available. Double glazing, cavity wall insulation and underfloor heating are all costly additions to a home and while the energy efficiency of the home and the savings made through the utility bills will both be impressive, trying to find the money to fund such improvements can be nigh on impossible.
Everything you need to Know about the Green Deal
August 5th, 2013 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Green Deal Comments Off on Everything you need to Know about the Green Deal
The Green Deal: The Biggest Home Improvement Scheme Since WWII
November 13th, 2012 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Green Deal, Home Improvements 3 Comments »
The Green Deal UK is quickly starting to build momentum and has been said to be the biggest home improvement scheme since the Second World War. The government scheme aims to make properties more energy efficient without putting any financial strain on property owners. It seems too good to be true, right?! The Green Deal, however, has been carefully thought out and does offer a solution to the problem of properties being extremely wasteful, but property owners not being able to afford the necessary improvements to make them more environmentally friendly.
Ecovate Your Home and Reduce Your Fuel Bills
August 8th, 2012 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Saving, Green Deal, Press Releases Comments Off on Ecovate Your Home and Reduce Your Fuel Bills
With some details of the Government’s Green Deal still to be unveiled, The National Home Improvement Show spokesperson, Michael Holmes explains how taking sustainability and energy-efficiency into account when renovating or extending can make an immediate and significant difference to your energy bills and reduce your home’s carbon footprint.
Who Does What in the Green Deal?
May 17th, 2012 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Saving, Green Deal 1 Comment »
The Green Deal is the Government’s grand plan to get us all more energy efficient, thus reducing our fuel bills and more importantly, carbon emissions. It involves taking a loan to pay for energy efficiency measures such as insulation or a new boiler which is then attached to the energy bill and repaid along with it. At first glance you may think it should be a pretty straightforward process involving you and the company installing the insulation or whatever, but you’d be wrong.
Will Green Deal Code protect Green Deal Scheme Consumers
September 7th, 2011 HIP-Consultant.co.uk Posted in Energy Saving, Green Deal 1 Comment »
In readiness for the launch of the much anticipated Green Deal, the Government’s flagship environmental project aimed at making up to 14 million homes more energy efficient through loans to home owners for the purchase of energy saving improvements to the properties, the Department of Energy and Climate Change is busy drafting a Code of Practice, aimed at ensuring a proper level of protection for consumers.