Radflek (a radiator booster to reduce energy bills)
New homes these days have to to be energy-efficient so read up on how to affordably insulate your home (never install insulation until nesting birds in chimneys have moved on).
Radflek is up there with ‘England’s best invention’ and it’s a mystery why energy companies and the media don’t promote it more.
If using portable radiators, choose oil-powered ones that heat up slower but are more comfortable and safer than fast-blowing fan heaters (which can cause heatstroke for people & pets and cost a fortune to run).
For around £25 for a pack of three, these modern alternatives to sticking aluminium foil behind your radiator can reflect 95% of wasted heat energy that often simply goes out the wall and into the fresh air. No DIY skills are needed to reduce heat loss by almost half, and therefore your bills too.
Designed to last years, these are made with laminated aluminium foil and pays for itself within a year, but is designed to last at least 5 years.
The booster simply hangs from the wall brackets, for radiators that have a gap between the radiator and the wall.
If you have unique radiators (like brackets that sit higher) their FAQ page has answers for best fitting. The company can also supply for commercial use (say for hospitals, hospices and care homes).
Why Don’t MPs Recommend Radiator Boosters?
Once you learn a lot of the amazing ideas and products that are out there, you do wonder why MPs aren’t research and recommending the same.
When a minister stands up in Parliament talking about people need to save on energy bills, and then the government commends itself for someone saving say £100 a year – inventions like this would save far more.
So why (especially to reduce oil use and climate change), does the government not just buy these in bulk and hand them out – and use them en-masse in public buildings?
It would reduce our energy bills by millions, stop people and pets getting hypothermia, drastically reduce oil and therefore climate emissions.
But instead they use push pens in offices, most of them likely don’t even know that wonderful things like this exist, which would drastically help people in fuel poverty to keep warm – all for £25 per room.
