by Jacob Whitmore | Sep 2, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Key takeaways In England the carbon monoxide alarm duty sits with landlords. GOV.UK guidance says plainly that the regulations do not apply to owner occupiers. Scotland is different. Every home with a boiler, open fire, flue or non-electric heater must have a CO...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 30, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
Home security is sold the wrong way round. The expensive, heavily marketed products watch a burglary happen. The cheap, dull ones try to stop it. This index prices the second group against the first, using government data on how burglars actually get into British...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 30, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
The UK Student Kit Index prices the same 20-item student room kit every year and reads the total against the maintenance loan. This is the first edition. The 2026 UK student kit costs £569.11. Kitting out a student room takes 15.8% of the first maintenance loan...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 29, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
The short version A passive moisture absorber uses no electricity at all, so once you have bought it there is nothing to run. A plug-in dehumidifier of the usual household size draws a couple of hundred watts. One tub pulls a few hundred millilitres of water a week in...
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 28, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
The short version Ofgem’s price cap rises 4% to £1,723 a year from 1 October 2026, and the gas half of the bill goes up 8%. The Energy Saving Trust puts the benefit of fitting proper heating controls at around £100 a year in Great Britain....
by Jacob Whitmore | Aug 27, 2026 | Home & Garden, Trending
The short versionVacuum compression bags were sitting at number two on Amazon UK’s whole Home & Kitchen best seller chart when we checked on 27 August 2026, behind only a washing machine cleaner.Packaging claims of 80 per cent space saving are optimistic....
