Homeglow2910

Thanks for that, at least you can see it as nothing Sinister! Have a great weekend

I will always type my posts into word first as Grammer is not my strongest asset but it was a genuine post in the sense that I was trying to keep people safe. sorry if this offended you

I am not very good at touting for work when there are numbers you can phone to get the nearest engineer closest to your postcode. Just a genuine concern for people, I have seen many unsafe appliances. I have got to admit that its from the Gas Safe website, it’s a brilliant website and it can give you a lot of advise, check it out.

1. Have all your gas appliances, including boilers, gas cookers and gas fires, safety checked annually. 2. Always use a Gas Safe registered engineer to fit, fix and check gas appliances in your home – it’s the law and will help keep you safe. 3. Always ask to see an engineers Gas Safe ID card and check the back of the card to ensure they are qualified to carry out the specific type of gas work you need. 4. Find a Gas Safe registered engineer in your area or call the free helpline on 0800 408 5500 5. Recognise the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning – headaches, dizziness, nausea, breathlessness, collapse and loss of consciousness. 6. Check gas appliances for warning signs that they are not working properly e.g. lazy yellow flames instead of crisp blue ones, black marks or stains on or around the appliance and too much condensation in the room. 7. Buy an audible carbon monoxide alarmfor your home and make sure it is located near to your gas appliances in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidance. Carbon monoxide can leak from appliances and kill. 8. Only use gas appliances for their intended purpose e.g. don’t use a gas oven to heat a room or use a gas barbeque inside the house. 9. Always ensure there is enough ventilation for your gas appliances to allow them to burn correctly and make sure you are not blocking any air vents that provide an air supply to the gas appliance. 10. Anybody working with gas has to be Gas Safe registered by law.Report someone working without registration or call Gas Safe Register on the free phone number 0800 408 5500.

Now that is an old car, why do you say newer cars make more pollution?

I totally agree with both posts. I do believe we should use our cars less, I know I use a gas guzzling van for work but the Greener more fuel efficient vans are so expensive to buy. It’s when I see parents taking their children to school in the car when they only live around the corner that I find wrong and you see people buying massive 4x4 vehicles to go to Tesco. It is true about fuel costs with energy providers always putting up the prices but there are ways to heat your home and give you hot water at the fraction of the cost. It’s not all about solar panels and heat pumps of ways of saving money, like you have already done with wall insulation and new windows, these are great ways of keeping heat in our homes and using less fuel. Even cleaning your heating system with a power flush can dramatically make it more efficient.

Hi, I am a plumbing and heating engineer in the South Yorkshire area and I would love to know what people really think about their carbon footprint and ways of saving fuel costs in their homes. Is it something people really don’t think about? Is it the expense that puts people off? Would people like to know more about what is out there to save on fuel costs and should more money be spent on awareness for this.