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Heat or Eat Schemes – Tackling Fuel Poverty

The need for Heat or Eat schemes Fuel poverty occurs when a household can’t afford to heat their home to a habitable and healthy standard. It can be as a result of poverty / low income in general, or exceptional increases in the cost of energy. Fuel poverty can result...

9 August 2023

Category: General

Secondary Glazing for Landlord EPC Improvements

Secondary Glazing is ideal for Landlord EPC rental improvements Since 2018, landlords for most private rentals have faced a legal requirement to improve the energy efficiency of their properties, by getting ratings of “E” or better on their Energy Performance...

26 July 2023

Category: General

Window and Door Insulation – Do-it-Yourself and Do-it-Now

Household worries It’s June 2022. The last few years have been economically challenging for many, with Covid, Brexit, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the start of an inflationary cycle that is most noticeable on household energy bills, fuel for driving...

1 June 2022

Category: General

Insulating Windows in Listed and Conservation Buildings

Some of the most beautiful and architecturally significant buildings in the UK are either “listed” or situated in “conservation areas”, in which it can be a criminal act to alter the building in any manner that affects its character, unless...

24 August 2021

Category: General

Noiseless Nights and Happy Homeworking

When thinking about sounds, it’s easy to muse over birdsong, gurgling streams, children playing happily and ice-cream vans in the distance. Pleasant and comforting. But when sounds become a nuisance, when it intrudes into your peaceful activities, we think of...

24 August 2021

Category: General

The Puddle on the Window Sill

As a child, it wasn’t hard to tell when winter had properly set in. That first morning, waking up to a misted over window and a puddle on the sill was a dead giveaway. So you dutifully write your name in it with your finger, or draw a shape or two, or maybe send...

24 August 2021

Category: General

‘Tis the Season to be Jolly (Cold)

At secondarydiyglazing.com we have grown accustomed over the years to two regular types of customers. At the end of the summer holidays, just after the schools go back, we get Planners, who have thoroughly researched what they want and are getting it organised before...

24 August 2021

Category: General