Merry Christmas to all our customers and visitors to the Glow-worm website and blog. May your Christmas be warm and cosy. Here’s to a healthy and happy 2008. Best Wishes Sally, on behalf of the Glow-worm blog team ... (read more)

Google has launched a massive campaign to reduce carbon emissions with a new project and website to boot. The UK Carbon Footprint Project aims to make information on calculating and reducing carbon footprints, as well as information on climate change in the UK, easily accessible to everyone. Similar to the Glow-worm boiler calculator, the new site also has a special carbon calculator so that you c... (read more)

Looking around prospective houses can be one of the most stressful times – yes, you enjoy a good nose around to see how other people live, but underlined is the immense pressure to find a new nesting place to hopefully spend many happy years. That experience can be seriously hindered by the strangest occurrences. Recent research commissioned by Glow-worm revealed that 67% of people have actuall... (read more)

We received this brilliant joke at Glow-worm Towers… a little something for the weekend perhaps, enjoy! Q. How do you make a glow worm happy? A. Cut off his tail, he’ll be de-lighted! ... (read more)

HIPs (think houses as opposed to hop…) are an integral part of selling houses nowadays. Part of the Home Information Pack includes an Energy Performance Certificate – a detailed analysis of a particular property’s performance in terms of the energy use, calculated per square metre of floor area. This includes an analysis of energy efficiency based on fuel costs and the environmental imp... (read more)

Over recent weeks you may have seen the new Glow-worm advertising campaign in magazines and newspapers up and down the UK. The kind of baby to make most people broody – he’s cheeky, dressed top to toe as a colourful bug and best of all – there are no sound effects! Yes that’s right, for the most recent Glow-worm campaign the Glow-worm bug has been captivated by some of the cutest babies i... (read more)

As the nights draw in, more of us are reaching for our winter woolies and grumbling about being too cold before making the dash from duvet to shower first thing in the morning. Before you know it it’ll be Halloween and Guy Fawkes – a sure sign in the calendar that the heating most definitely needs to be switched on! It really is a good idea to test your boiler now before it gets too cold. Th... (read more)

We’ve gathered some top tips from all the people at Glow-worm to recommend other ways in which we can save energy at home and try to be a little greener: • Don’t leave appliances on standby • Don’t leave your mobile phone charge plugged in • Fit your doors with draft excluders • Try to turn down your thermostat (even 1 degree will help!) • Get fully lined curtains to fit the window... (read more)

If you’re looking for a new boiler, SEDBUK – Seasonal Efficiency Domestic Boilers United Kingdom (http://www.sedbuk.com/) – is something you should look out for. It’s the universal standard for rating boiler efficiency in the UK, with SEDBUK A and B rated boilers classed as high efficiency and any rated C or less classed as standard efficiency. The higher the rating your boiler has, t... (read more)

The last of our golden oldie Glow-worm ads with Ronnie Barker strutting his stuff! ... (read more)