If your floors stay icy even when the heat’s running, it’s not just the weather’s fault. Cold floors usually mean your house ...

Annual energy bills go up, and most of the cost literally escapes through walls, windows, and spaces you can’t even see.

Kraken Bond, a leading manufacturer of high-performance chemical solutions for construction and industrial sectors, is ...

Abstract: Flash point (FP) critically determines the fire safety of transformer oils, yet ester-based oils, the sustainable alternative to mineral oils, face a critical trade-off between FP ...

There are a lot of things to look forward to when the cold temps arrive: Refreshing your wardrobe with a new winter coat, sitting around a fire pit with friends or celebrating the holidays by ...

Two government schemes aimed at cutting energy use by insulating homes were botched on a vast scale, a spending watchdog has found, leaving tens of thousands of homes in need of remedial work.

Tens of thousands of households have been left with faulty insulation that could cause damp and mould, after Government failures in the design and oversight of its flagship home energy efficiency ...

A government-backed scheme to fit homes with external wall insulation has left thousands of households worse off as they face damp, mould and other serious health hazards, the spending watchdog has ...

Almost all homes which have had external wall insulation fitted under a Government scheme will need repair work as they could cause dangerous issues including damp and mould, a damning report today ...

Thousands of homes fitted with insulation under a flagship government scheme now need major remedial work, or risk damp and mould, the public spending watchdog has warned. A damning report by the ...

The spending watchdog warned that ‘clear failures’ in the ECO scheme led to poor-quality installations, health and safety risks and suspected fraud. The scheme aimed to improve home energy efficiency ...