A few weeks ago I wrote about all the different things we are looking for when we finally purchase our own home later in the year and one of those things is a garden.

Our home is our castle, which means that we are going to want to make sure that it always looks its best. But when we also live there, this isn’t always the easiest thing to do. Sometimes, the only way we are going to be able to add a touch of life to our home…

The recent cold winter will have made many people realise how much they rely on their boiler, especially if it broke down or they left it too late to place their top-up kerosene order with Emo Oil before the temperatures plummeted. Many households would have spent a few days shivering, waiting for an engineer or…

Spring is finally here, which means you’ll be using your central heating less and less as summer approaches. Some people turn off their boiler entirely during the summer months, especially if they have an immersion heater to warm their water up. Giving your oil-fired central heating system a break over the summer can be a…

I’ve made no secret of the fact that we are desperate to buy our own home. Fingers crossed that 2018 will be the year. Recently we have started looking in our favourite areas for houses that attract us.