Help! Heat is escaping from my home!
Winter is coming, and as the cold sets in and purse-strings tighten we are all worrying about how to save electricity and gas and combat rising heating costs. It doesn’t help, therefore, that when it...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Savers 3 – Save £60 in the bathroom by installing a...
Having a shower rather than a bath is the energy conscious way of getting clean, right? Well, not necessarily. Some high volume power-showers use more water in five minutes than you’d use to fill a...
View ArticleTen Products To Help Save Water In The Home
Most people don’t equate their water use with their carbon footprint, but the emissions involved with heating, supplying and disposing of water actually account for five percent of the UK’s total –...
View ArticleFour Energy Sucking Monsters To Slay This Halloween
At Halloween you can never be too careful. Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood. And things that go bump in the night start going bump...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Savers 4 – Save £33 By Installing Thermostatic Radiator...
You might assume that your bedroom needs as much heat as the rest of the house – but that’s nonsense. Think about it: you spend the majority of your time wandering round the rest of your house, and the...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver – Save £35 A Year Using a Washing Up Bowl
It’s Saturday. Your head hurts. The empty bottles of wine are lined up by the back door, silently judging you. And to make matters worse the kitchen looks like a bomb has hit it. A bomb filled with...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver – Keep Warm! Save £45 by Insulating Your Hot Water...
Here at Ovo we’re all about saving money and energy on your heating bill, and would advise you to do everything you can to keep those costs down. But we’re not monsters. We understand the necessity of...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver: Save £20 a Week Making A Free-Lunch Plan
We spend £5.5 billion per year buying ourselves lunch when at work, while, at the same time at home we chuck almost the same value of food in the bin. Something’s not right here. Spend a bit of time...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver: Save £40 a year by installing radiator reflector panels.
Remember when the temperature started dropping and everyone kept making ‘Winter is coming’ Game of Thrones references? That was funny wasn’t it?! Ha ha….ha. Only now winter isn’t coming, it’s here....
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver: Save £150 a year at ‘clothes-swapping’ events.
So the cold snap is here, the summer is a but a distant dream and we’re all digging out our winter wardrobe. Only problem is well… That jumper seemed a lot classier last year, didn’t it? That...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Saver – Save up to £200 a year using a slow cooker
We are constantly told that time is money. Speed is good. The faster the better. We live in a world of fast food and microwave lasagnes and fifteen-minute cookbooks. But taking our time to do things...
View ArticleFive Ways Christmas Can Hit Your Energy Bills
The Lights Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without lighting up your house like the Blackpool illuminations. How else is Santa going to know where to land his sleigh if he can’t see the eight-foot...
View Article5 Ways We’ve Helped Santa Go Green
When the polar ice caps melt, the first thing into the sea will be Santa’s Workshop. Which means no more presents for everyone, and a lot of soggy elves. Thankfully – with a little help from us – this...
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