If you heat your home, switch the boiler off, and the place gets cold again within an hour, something in the house is leaking heat faster than the system can replace it. UK homes are notorious for this — draughty doors, thin walls, cold floors, bad insulation, and weird airflow that pulls warm air straight … Read more
If your upstairs heats perfectly but downstairs stays freezing, you’re dealing with one of the most common heating problems in UK homes. It’s frustrating because it feels like the boiler is working — but half the house simply refuses to warm up. I’ve lived in houses where the bedrooms felt like a sauna while the … Read more
When your heating comes on, you expect the radiators to warm up quickly. So when they take ages—sometimes 20, 30, even 40 minutes—it feels like the whole system is sluggish. I’ve been in houses where some radiators were fully hot in under 5 minutes while others barely warmed after half an hour. Slow-heating radiators aren’t … Read more
Every house seems to have that one room. The one that refuses to warm up no matter how long the heating’s been running. You can sit in the living room sweating, but walk into “that room” and it feels like stepping into a different climate. I’ve had this problem in two different houses, and both … Read more
If your radiators only heat up when the hot water is on, you’re dealing with a very common UK boiler problem that almost always comes down to one part of the system not doing its job properly. It’s one of those issues that seems confusing at first, but once you understand how your heating and … Read more
When your boiler keeps firing up, running for a short time, switching off, and repeating the whole cycle again, it’s not “normal behaviour”—it’s a sign something isn’t right with the system. Most people don’t spot it at first because the heating still “works,” but short cycling wastes money, wears the boiler out faster, and makes … Read more
Radiators aren’t supposed to be noisy. A healthy heating system runs quietly in the background, barely noticeable. So when a radiator starts banging, tapping, hissing, or making that weird gurgling sound, it’s your heating system trying to tell you something’s off. The good news is most radiator noises have very clear causes, and once you … Read more
Every UK home seems to have the same argument every winter. Someone is sweating upstairs, someone else is freezing downstairs, and no matter what you set the thermostat to, one floor always feels wrong. I used to think this was just “how houses are,” but once you actually understand how heat moves around a home, … Read more
If you’ve ever put your hand on a radiator and felt it hot at the top but noticeably cold at the bottom, you’re not imagining it—something in the system isn’t working properly. A healthy radiator should heat evenly from top to bottom. When the bottom stays cold, it’s your system trying to tell you there’s … Read more
You don’t realise how much heat a home loses until you deal with a proper draught. I used to think my house was just “naturally cold” until one winter, when I finally started hunting down the cold air leaks. The biggest culprit wasn’t the windows or the loft like everyone assumes—it was the gaps under … Read more