We can organise your insulation now

Loft or cavity wall, whatever you need.

• Typical jobs cost £150-200, and pay back within 1-2 years or less 
• One of the most cost-effective actions you can take
• Some people can get insulation completely for free 
• VAT on home insulation is  only 5%

If you've had a survey in 2011, we'll have talked to you about this already. But if we came to your property last year then we'll need to have another quick chat to explain how you can take advantage. Fill out the form below and we'll be back in touch to explain the next steps.

Who gets free insulation these days?

People keep asking us this, and it's strange that it's so hard to find out the right answer. Hundreds of millions of pounds a year are spent on this, but it's not very transparent at all. If you want to know exactly who gets what, well then you have to pick through a bunch of horrendously complicated government documents. 

Anyway, we've done the work for you and here for the record is the answer. To be considered a "Priority Group" for energy saving, you must be :

1. Age 70 or over, or 
2. In receipt of 
• council tax benefit
• housing benefit
• income support
• an income-based jobseeker’s allowance
• an attendance allowance
• a disability living allowance
• a war disablement pension including mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance
• a disablement pension  which includes a constant attendance allowance
• state pension credit, or
3. Earn under £16,040 and be in receipt of
• child tax credit
• working tax credit

So there you go. There aren't actually any hard and fast rules about what you can get for free, exactly, but in practice if you're in one of the Priority Groups above, then you can usually get your insulation for free, and if you're not you can get about a third or a half of the cost paid for.

There are also some "Super" priority groups now too, but I think we'll come back to that another day.

The electric blanket is back (picture version)

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Open publication - Free publishing - More carbon census

This article was originally posted with a long explanation, but we decided that all you really need to get the point is in the picture above. Enough said?

ISE and the white goods market

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Open publication - Free publishing - More carbon census

This post is to announce our partnership with ISE Appliances, a nice company that makes very high efficiency, long lasting domestic appliances. Their 1607W washing machine (which I have just installed at home, with great pleasure) is guaranteed for 10 years, and is tested to 8,000 cycles - enough for 20 or 30 years in a domestic setting.

To encourage you to buy from this company, when your current appliances need replacement, we will reimburse you the £50 delivery & installation charge. Carbon Census households only! See further details below.

What we like about ISE Appliances

What we like about ISE is the simple insight they've had: that saving energy through appliances is not just about getting an A rating. That's because for most appliances, the potential saving you can expect in terms of energy cost is only in the order of £10 or £20 a year.

So, the bigger issue which nobody is talking about is how long the machine lasts. When it finally conks out, you'll have to incur the environmental cost of :

• Manufacturing a new machine 
• Shipping it to the UK, usually in a container from a long way away
• Delivering it to your house 
• Taking away your old machine 
• Stripping down, recycling or sending the old machine to landfill 

If your machine lasts 20 years instead of 5 years, you save the environmental cost of replacement 3 times over. Or twice over if your machine lasts 7 years, which we think is about the average in the UK these days.

So that's why we think this is a great little company, and why we're happy to send you in their direction with our rebate scheme.

Requirements to qualify for our scheme

• You must have had a Carbon Census at the address on the invoice 
• You must buy through the UK White Goods website 
• Not available in conjunction with other offers (although there are none at the moment, as far as we know) 

I guess that in principle this (like all our offers) is subject to fair use, but we can't think of any ways an offer like this could be used unfairly. If you can think of any, please don't!