How not to go up with heating costs

IT’S impossible to forget the physical and emotional shock of the winter weather that roared in, in 2010. It had been 40 years since Ireland had seen thickly iced roads, consistent snowfall, and temperatures in the minus teens. The icy grip was especially gruesome for anyone who had ignored a basic winter maintenance check the preceding autumn, on their home’s energy performance. It’s still tepid with October’s wet, balmy breath, but let’s assume the worst and put the house in order.