The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported this week on the best ways to upgrade and improve older and more architecturally interesting properties – with underfloor heating being one of the best ways to make an older building cosy without ruining any of the original features. Although many of the properties built in the 1970s and 1980s [...]
Continue Reading →A £500,000 redevelopment near the Derbyshire town of Buxton demonstrated recently how underfloor heating can be used to upgrade a historical building without ruining any of its traditional architectural features. Trinity Church on Hardwick Mount has been undergoing a renovation project designed to bring its facilities into the 21st century. The “Building for Growth” project [...]
Continue Reading →The underfloor heating market is set to experience a lucrative 24 months in 2012 and 2013, according to a report recently published by MTW research. Having seen an upturn in 2010, the report noted that the underfloor heating industry saw a slight downturn in 2011, due to a number of factors including a slump in [...]
Continue Reading →Underfloor heating is just one of the home comforts available in the world’s most expensive campervan, which is on sale now for a mere £1.9 million. The eleMMent palazzo, sold by Austrian vehicle manufacturers Marchi Mobile, is virtually a palace on wheels, measuring 40 feet long and with a 215 square foot pop-up roof terrace [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: fakelvis A prison protest in New Zealand at the weekend led to the facility being placed into lockdown – after a power outage put pay to their television and underfloor heating. The power cut struck on Saturday at the Otago Corrections Facility in Milburn, and caused a seven-hour “passive protest” in the central [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: JimboRocks The Daily Mail reported this week on a somewhat unusual idea for a “des res” – a converted shipping container decked out with underfloor heating and other mod cons to make a cosy little dwelling. The idea is the brainchild of entrepreneur Sam Minionis, who noticed the vast number of shipping containers [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Mr Fujisawa The Musee Maillol in Paris has just opened a startling new exhibition – a full reconstruction of a Roman villa from the doomed city of Pompeii. The reconstruction uses 2,000-year-old artefacts to show exactly how a prosperous Roman family would live in the villa – which includes a full recreation the [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: Rocpoc A raft of organisations representing sectors of the UK building industry have released a joint statement urging the government to give consumers VAT incentives to take up the so-called “Green Deal,” which is meant to promote eco-friendly and energy efficient forms of heating. Organisations including the British Property Federation (BPF), the [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: dougtone Home energy experts at non-profit group Ebico gave one householder some top tips on how to get the most out of their underfloor heating this week. Writing on the This Is Money site in response to a homeowner’s query about how to efficiently use the underfloor heating in her flat, a [...]
Continue Reading →photo credit: the00rig Recent indications have shown an increase in the price of heating oil in the UK, following falling prices throughout August. The increases began at the end of last week and as of this morning reached over 55p a litre. The price of oil is up across the board globally, which could have [...]
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