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How to Defrost Frozen Condensate Pipes | Ideal Heating Frozen condensate pipes can cause big problems for boilers, especially during winter. Ideal Heating shows how the pipes work and how to defrost them safely.

During these unusually low temperatures a common issue with gas boilers can be a frozen condensate pipe. Here is a useful video that can help you resolve this quickly and get your heating back up and running.

Please take care if your condensate pipe is not easily reached from ground level, and do not put yourself at any undue risk. If you have any doubts or concerns, seek assistance from a registered Gas Safe engineer. Please be careful when pouring water onto a path or walkway, as this may freeze and cause a slip hazard.

How to Defrost Frozen Condensate Pipes | Ideal Heating Frozen condensate pipes can cause big problems for boilers, especially during winter. Ideal Heating shows how the pipes work and how to defrost them safely.

Great news for those thinking about installing heat pumps. A very straightforward grant of £7500 (£9000 if rural) and interest-free loans of £7500. Its good to be Scottish]

Enhanced support to make homes warmer and greener New offer to make climate-friendly energy improvements simpler.

There is no downside to installing solar panels. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/20/green-upgrades-could-cut-uk-energy-bills-by-1800-a-year-finds-study?CMP=share_btn_tw

Green upgrades could cut UK energy bills by £1,800 a year, finds study Homeowners can boost property value by average of £10,000, shows research by WWF and ScottishPower

We have come across companies with salespeople claiming you can run a heat pump through micro-bore piping. Our advice is to make sure any quote allows for a properly designed system using 15mm copper pipework and correctly sized radiators and heat pump. Chase any that say otherwise. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1497690/heat-pumps-bill-replace-pipes-boris-johnson-net-zero-climate-change

Britons face £2,500 bill to replace unsuitable heating pipes after 'major complications' UP TO five million UK homes are at risk, according to industry experts, who have warned installing heat pumps could cause "major complications" and cost the average household an extra £2,500.

This is astonishing. Due to reduced costs of installation, smart charging, zero-rated VAT and increased energy costs the payback time for installing solar pv and batteries has come down from nineteen years to just over four

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oquw2DRLHN0

Home Battery Storage Now Makes Financial Sense // Even WITHOUT Solar Panels // Pay Back Calculations Home Battery Storage Now Makes Financial Sense without solar panels, assuming you can get on an energy tariff with at least 4 hours Off Peak charging rates.C...

A simple and easy read on Solar PV and battery storage from The Energy Saving Trusthttps://yougen.co.uk/renewable-energy/batteries/

Batteries - YouGen Batteries, or home energy storage units, can be installed to store surplus energy produced by your solar PV system, which can then be used...

Martin Lewis has updated his Solar Panel advice and its worth reading https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/free-solar-panels/

Solar panels – are they worth it? Solar panels can pay out £1,000s. Money Saving Expert looks at whether you should get free solar panels or pay to have them installed.

Carry out the installation of Air Source Heat Pumps and Gas Boilers (Air Source Heat Pump training will be given).
Jobs across Central Belt, Ayrshire including Arran, Argyll & Bute, Borders and Highlands.
Candidates must have domestic gas qualifications.
Have experience of installing full domestic central heating systems.
Have a full driving licence.
Installers should have good customer skills and work to our company standards in our customers' homes.
Salary details on request - above industry average.

Electricians required with immediate starts. Excellent salary, van and fuel with a growing business. To work across the central belt, Argyll & Bute including Arran & Dumfries & Galloway. Core work involves wiring domestic central heating systems. Must have all up to date accreditations.

An interesting blog from the Energy Saving Trust on running a heat pump https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/how-to-ensure-a-heat-pump-runs-efficiently/

How to ensure a heat pump runs efficiently There are often very common issues that can cause poor heat pump running costs, some of which you can address yourself.

Goodbye Gas....
https://www.beuc.eu/publications/goodbye-gas-heat-pumps-will-be-cheapest-green-heating-option-consumers/html

Goodbye gas: heat pumps will be the cheapest green heating option for consumers | www.beuc.eu The study - ‘Goodbye gas: why your next boiler should be a heat pump’ – looked at the cost of heating the two most typical homes (house/apartment) in Italy, Czech Republic, Poland and Spain with electric heat pumps, hybrid electric/hydrogen heat pumps and hydrogen boilers from 2025-2040.1

If everyone contacted the Energy Saving Trust BEFORE signing up for any energy saving, renewable, or heating product there would be a lot fewer scams artists about:
https://www.tsscot.co.uk/energy-marketing-scams-campaign/

Energy Marketing Scams Campaign - Trading Standards Scotland Trading Standards Scotland is running a campaign aimed at raising awareness of issues with misleading energy marketing and energy scams

Interesting read from Simon Kemp BD Manager at Warmworks about the part air source, solar PV and battery storage will play in Scotland's journey to net zero.

https://www.sfha.co.uk/news/news-category/sfha-news/news-article/a-fair-just-and-sustainable-transition-to-net-zero

A fair, just and sustainable transition to net zero - The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations Limited The SFHA is the representative organisation for Scotland's Housing Association sector

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Carry out the installation of Air Source Heat Pumps and Gas Boilers (Air Source Heat Pump training will be given).
Jobs across Central Belt, Ayrshire, including Arran, Argyll & Bute, Borders and Highlands.
Candidates must have domestic gas qualifications.
Have experience of installing full domestic central heating systems.
Have a full driving licence.
Installers should have good customer skills and work to our company standards in our customers' homes.
Salary details on request - above industry average.

De-bunking the heat pump myths. https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/low-carbon-heat-pumps-debunking-the-myths/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Orlo

Low carbon heat pumps: debunking the myths We address the top five myths surrounding heat pumps to set the record straight on this low carbon technology.

Delighted that Home Energy Scotland has chosen one of our installations as a Heat Pump Hero. We were so pleased to have played our part in this exciting project. https://www.homeenergyscotland.org/heat-pumps/heat-pump-heroes/ruth/

Ruth - Home Energy Scotland Meet Ruth Ruth installed an air source heat pump at the 150-year-old stone cottage she was renovating to rent out. She applied for an interest-free loan, funded by the Scottish Government, to help cover the costs. Without this, Ruth says she wouldn’t have installed “because we had so much else t...

More needs to be done if we are going to get near the the targets https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/09/08/government-installs-nearly-6-of-the-heat-pumps-needed-for-net-zero/

'Government installs nearly 6% of the heat pumps needed for net zero' - Energy Live News The Institute for Public Policy Research calls on the government to spend £6 billion a year in green measures to reach its decarbonisation targets