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Affordable Solar Energy is the new Smart Energy

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: poor sales cowboys etc etc etc

...some of you might know Smart Energy UK(The largest solar comapny in the uk) went into administration on friday 17th july 2009. As a result of this Smart Energy was forced to close. A relief some of you might say after reading some of your reviews, but its not over yet! Smart energy uk are now trading as Affordable Solar Energy (affordablesolarenergy.co.uk). They have obviously thought creating a new name will hide poor customer service and poor ...
...engineer for a year at Smart Energy i have seen this company is very sales driven with more people in the office than out on the road. The local i depot i worked out of only had one manager to deal all the customers needing service calls consider the area we used to cover hat was very poor. I also found out that on the 23rd june 2009 Smart Energy UK had a compliant aginst them from the OFT Follow this link to read more. trading.http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/06/smart-energy-vows-to-clean-up.html ...

sparky0090 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Smart Energy Solar Water Heating System

A free gadget to help reduce my electricity costs!

Advantages: Free, help to save electricity, easy to set up and use
Disadvantages: None

...received an email directly from British Gas but it came to my attention that they were offering a new service called Energy Smart. I have been a British Gas customer as long as I can remember and have always been happy with their prices and their customer service so I wasn’t surprised that they were offering me something else to help me to control my energy costs. I logged onto www.britishgas.co.uk to see what this was all about. Basically the ...
...monitor free of charge from British Gas. So I signed up online and the box containing my electricity monitor arrived in the post a few days later. So what was in the box? The well packed box contained the following pieces of equipment: A display unit which is mains powered and will receive the information via a wireless signal from the transmitter. The display unit has a screen with three buttons down the side of it – the top one has an upward ...

SusanLesley 17.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of British Gas EnergySmart Electricity Monitor

Our Sun Jar- A Golden Gadget!

Advantages: Free lighting and a lovely glow.
Disadvantages: Recharging difficult in cloudy weather and indoors not as successful as outdoors.

...is made by the company Suck UK Ltd who also make a blue version called the Moon Jar. This looks beautiful and I am considering a purchase shortly. www.suck.uk.com The lamp will glow for about 5 hours on one charge and it has the same light intensity as a candle. You can't seriously use it for working or for reading, but it has that cosy warm relaxing property which illuminates the room in a golden orange glow. Now it does need sun to work, so on ...
...it struggles, and so I try to charge it up on sunny days and then use it on those days when it is miserable in the evening, by conserving the energy using the button inside. What I would say though is that the recharging capability is weak indoors, and so far I have yet to obtain a full 5 hours of light, so for best results pop it outside in a sunny south facing spot if you can. I love the fact that this jar is saving electricity. It is rather a ...

Violet1278 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Suck UK Sun Jar

Want to cut your water bill?

Advantages: Easy to fit,Saves money
Disadvantages: None

...bag I purchased this Hippo water saver due to reading a review by Sweet daisy on Dooyoo about them. She stated they were available from some water boards or various websites but I purchased mine off eBay for £1 with free postage and packaging. I have purchased a few items I have read reviews on but for once this is an item that will actually save me money What is a hippo bag? It is a thick plastic cube shaped bag that fits in the toilet ...
...How does it work? Simply open out the bag and fit it under the system ball. Pour in a 4 litres of water in the bag as you flush the toilet. From this point on each time you flush you will save a litre of water. My experience. I was very excited when my bag arrived and opened it out and read all the instructions and took it upstairs to the bathroom and that is where it sat as I didn't have a jug upstairs and thought I would take one ...

Wisemind 23.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hippo the Water Saver

Shower using less water

Advantages: Saves water
Disadvantages: You do lose some 'power' in the shower

...a National paper for an Ecocamel shower head. Well to be honest I had seen one a few months ago and not done anything about it but this time it was being sold at a reduced price so that aroused my interest again. What is it? Basically it is a showerhead that mixes water with air to give an invigorating shower using less water than a traditional shower head. Now I have been using the Lakeland Tapadaptor for years on my kitchen sink so I am familiar ...
...I planned to use the Ecocamel to replace my existing variable showerhead so the first thing that was evident is that with the new showerhead there is just one spray setting so you cannot adjust the spray pattern with this basic model. The manufacturers make a number of claims about what happens when the spray is created which are: "Conventional non aerated showers and flow restricted handsets produce a flow of water that bounces off your body. More ...

laramax 26.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ecocamel showerhead