“Making A Home Carbon Neutral Need Not Be Complicated” Says Ratedpeople.com

• Monday, 14 December 2009

Making a home carbon neutral need not be a complicated or expensive process according to Ratedpeople.com, the UK’s largest match making service for home owners and recommended tradesmen.

One key way of achieving carbon neutrality is to research your energy provider, and find out if they are green. If not, switching to a provider that is can go a long way towards helping the environment and lowering a carbon footprint, plus the money paid will usually be used to fund research into renewable energy sources.

Home heating systems have a strong bearing on a carbon footprint. If the house has a log fire, then burning wood is much better for the environment providing that the wood is not tanalised (i.e. has not been treated with toxins to prevent rot and decay). Tanalised wood can usually be identified by its greenish tint and roughly hewn quality.

If the home is heated by a boiler, home owners can invest in a more efficient boiler in order to reduce carbon emissions. Whilst this is quite expensive, home owners can make more savings nowadays with the help of government subsidies. The installation of more environmentally friendly boilers can also serve to increase the saleability of a home.

Ottokar Rosenberger, Director of Sales and Marketing for Ratedpeople.com, said: “There are many ways that home owners can significantly reduce the level of carbon emissions from their home. Whilst the more complex, short term solutions may carry significant expense, there is a great deal of cheap, long term solutions too.

“By planting more trees around their property, home owners can improve their garden whilst providing more outlets for carbon conversion. Also, home owners can reduce the need for more heat in their homes over the winter by wearing an extra layer indoors, and turning the thermostat down by a degree or two.”

Ratedpeople.com helps home improvers find recommended tradesmen quickly and easily. You can choose from 24 different trades and find tradesmen such as local heating engineers, landscape gardeners or recommended plumbers.

Every month, Ratedpeople.com manages over £30m in home improvement projects with more than 1,000 tradesmen signing up, making it the UK’s largest match making service for home improvers and recommended tradesmen. There are more than 55,000 ratings on Ratedpeople.com to date and its system ensures that tradesmen are only rated by previous customers who find them through the site. This results in one of the fairest and most robust rating systems on the web.

For further information on how to source a recommended tradesman in your area, visit www.Ratedpeople.com.

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