We are proud to introduce our new company: Warm Vent, providing air-to-air heating and cooling solutions for homes and commercial properties. We even have a dedicated website to market our new services on. This can be found on:  https://www.air2airheatpumps.co.uk/ 

Air-to-Air Heat Pumps – Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling

Air to Air heat pump is a modern technology that offers energy efficient heating and cooling in one system. It is the only sustainable heating solution that can also work in reverse and provide cool air during the hot summer months. 

Not only do they provide both heating and cooling, but they also also have a built in air filter mechanism. This enhances air quality, to add to the overall comfort and wellness of a home.

Heat pumps are proven to work on 300% energy efficiency. This is a significant improvement from average UK radiators that tend to work around 85% of energy efficiency. Air to air heat pumps are also significantly cheaper, quicker and more simple to install than air to water heat pumps. There is no need to reconfigure the entire existing heating system, and re-do any current pipe work. They are simply an add on that will serve to reduce the energy bills in the long term.

Last, but not least importantly, air-to-air heat pumps use renewable energy. Therefore significantly reducing the carbon footprint of the property. Since governments incentivise such new technologies, this also means there is no VAT to pay on the purchase and installation of air to air heat pumps. That is an instant saving of 20%!

Give us a call for a free consultation, and see if your home can benefit from a more energy efficient heating system.

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Our new expanding trackless barriers can be deployed both indoors or used as external barriers for closing off or partitioning any specific areas. It is a high security, and lockable solution in a wide ranging locations and situations such as crowd control, utilising it as factory roller doors, or marking access ways, corridors, out of bounds or hazardous areas.  Trackless safety barriers can be ideal solution to use in schools, festival settings, constructions sites, hospitals, surgeries, retail, offices, showrooms, factories, airports, or any other public buildings.

The most obvious difference is that whilst our conventional collapsible security grilles move along a fixed track, the expanding safety barriers roll on wheels, and therefore they are portable, and very easy to deploy. They can be used as free standing but can also be fixed at either end, and locked into position when a lockable solution is required. 

Our expanding safety barriers are also made to measure so perfect sizing is guaranteed. They are also very neat and take up very little space when drawn back.

Please visit our website https://www.expandingsafetybarriers.co.uk for more info, details and price!

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To use, simply enter the postcode or place name that you would like to review. Once you have selected your chosen location the interactive map will update you with how many criminal incidents were reported in your area. You are also provided with information regarding the police service in the the area and contacts information for your local police team. From here you can delve deeper, by exploring the crime map.

Each highlighted circle represents a specific location in which a criminal offence has been reported. Within each circle is a number, this defines exactly how many crimes have been reported in the pinpointed area. Simply click on each highlighted location to find out more details about the criminal offences.

How can the postcode crime checker be used to reduce crime in your neighbourhood?

As a community, you can asses the crime levels in your borough or district and compare with similar locations. Using the information provided by the postcode crime checker, you can work together to reduce the crime in your neighbourhood.  Although we don’t like to talk about crime levels in our areas, burglary, theft and other crimes are growing in some areas in the UK. To help, here are some simple steps that you, as a resident, can work with your neighbours to reduce crime in your area:

1. Join a Neighbourhood Watch Scheme

Neighbourhood Watch schemes work to increase security and reduce the incentive to commit crime. These committees also help to make neighbourhoods a friendly and pleasant place to live. Neighbourhood Watch is an organised group of residents who work together to prevent crime within a neighbourhood. In turn, the community agrees to keep ‘watch’ of each other’s properties.  You can quickly and effortlessly find your nearest Neighbourhood Watch group, use the Neighbourhood Watch postcode search and follow the site to contact your local scheme.

2. Get Organised and Teach

As an organised community, you can work together to mentor and educate the young people living in your area who need positive input from adults. By providing young adults with information about crime in your area and how it can affect others, you can help raise awareness and empower the younger generation to make informed choices about crime in their community. Youth crime prevention programmes can involve both the young individuals, parents and families and provide each person with the skills to spot potential situations in which a criminal activity could occur and how to stay out of trouble.

3. Stay Safe When You’re Away

If you’re going away for the weekend or a little longer, always make sure that your home looks as if someone is living it. To do this, you can set automatic timer-switches to turn lights on at night. You can also use the ‘Keepsafe’ service provided by the Royal Mail. With this service you can avoid an ever growing pile of post advertising your absence, as the Royal Mail hold on to your mail for up to 66 days.  When going away for an extended period of time you should also ensure that your windows and doors are strong and secure, consider fitting a Multi-Lock security grille for complete security.

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It replaces a two point locking mechanism that used a standard Euro Profile cylinder. Over recent years there have been a well-publicised spate of burglaries, where this type of lock has been compromised by simply snapping the cylinder in two.

The following is taken from a Police website:

This is where the lock cylinder is literally snapped in two by applying force to the cylinder. Thieves have devised methods of snapping these types of cylinders locks in a matter of seconds and still be able to operate the lock to open the door. Take a look at just how easy it is to snap a cylinder here.

As well as cylinder snapping, there are many other ways of compromising a cylinder. A quick search of You Tube will enable anyone to use bump keys, rake keys, plug spinners and a wide variety of lock picking devises. All of these can be used to break into any door in seconds.

Our new Multi-Lock does not use a cylinder and cannot be attacked in this way. It has recently been rigorously attack tested in an independent test facility.

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