I’ve been reading lots of articles recently about the rising cost of oil making it more viable to drill hard to reach reserves. When previously this would have been too costly, now it looks more sensible for oil companies. This is obviously not the world’s best news. However, the increase in energy costs is starting [...]
Where is Batman when you need him, anyway? I saw this video on a podcast I subscribe to (usually I don’t find it that interesting, but occasionally there’s something really good). This video was pretty amusing, but mainly rammed home my appalling practices with plastic bags.
I have canvas bags, and always re-use any plastic [...]
You might wonder why we overhauled the heating system in the first place. After all, you’ve got to figure that leaving things as they are has less of an environmental impact that refurbishing something. Well, this flat had a bit of a bizarre heating system, especially given its size. It had a combi boiler feeding [...]
OK, so you know you’re obsessed with your refurb when you talk to people about the boilers they’re putting in and get all excited about flow rates and energy ratings. Well, in our place, the choice of boilers came down to this: Volkswagen or Mercedes. I had spent a fair while researching the very best [...]
We’re embarking on a complete refurbishment of the flat we bought. First of all, you might think that a refurbishment is not the right thing to do in the first place - one of the lowest impact things to do would be to simply leave the flat as it is. After all, the [...]
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