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Radiators have been gifted with their very own “tea cosy” insulators, thanks to an innovative-yet-simple solution from an energy startup firm based at Columbia University in New York. Across the world, millions face the same problem – that radiators in a large apartment building can be far too hot or cold for the day to [...]
Continue Reading →Plumbing supplier Altecnic have just launched a new range of heat interface units (HIU) which can better regulate radiators and boilers, and which it also believes will help architects and consultants meet the new details of Building Regulation Part L. The foam-insulated HIU replaces traditional mechanical control valves with electronic versions that react swiftly to [...]
Continue Reading →Everyone dreads the thought of a broken boiler and chilly radiators over the winter months, especially in regions where the winter really can bite, such as Scotland – but the bill for repairing a broken boiler can be just as scary. Such a bill has led to red faces for British Gas this week, after [...]
Continue Reading →Banking giant HSBC revealed recently that too many house buyers are failing to check out the condition of a potential home’s boiler and radiators. A study by the bank found that far more first-time buyers concentrate on a property’s location and local amenities rather than the condition of its essential fixtures – such as its [...]
Continue Reading →Police have issued householders and businesses with another warning to keep their doors and windows securely locked this week after another theft of radiators and copper piping, in Long Sutton, Somerset. The radiators and piping were removed from an unoccupied commercial premises in the Somerset town’s high street at some time between 3 November and [...]
Continue Reading →Home repairs insurance firm HomeServe shelved all telesales and marketing activity this week after claims that its staff have been misselling policies intended to cover breakdowns with householders’ radiators, boilers, plumbing and drains. Telesales staff are to be retrained after an internal review found cases where its own standards were not being met. The review [...]
Continue Reading →A judge at Newcastle Crown Court jailed two brothers who were stealing radiators in the South Shields area last Friday. Kevin and Philip Steele broke into an empty flat and ripped its radiators off the walls, looking for copper piping which they could sell for scrap to feed their drug habits. The flat was owned [...]
Continue Reading →You may not have heard of it, but tomorrow marks Central Heating Day in the UK – chosen because it is the first day of the year when many Britons turn on their radiators for the first time, in preparation for the chilliness of winter. After a relatively radiator-free summer, boilers hum back into life [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: martin 65 Passengers on a Birmingham train faced scorching temperatures recently when outdated radiators on their service kept blasting out the heat despite regional temperatures of more than 25 degrees Celcius. The London Midland service between Stourbridge and Birmingham Snow Hill featured 25- year-old rolling stock with under-seat radiators that cannot be turned [...]
Continue Reading →Police officers went undercover in Burnley, Lancashire recently to capture scrap metal thieves – and hit pay dirt when they were offered thousands of pounds worth of radiators and boilers in a sting operation. Over £8,000 worth of the radiators and other scrap metal items were offered by the trio of thieves, following an undercover [...]
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