The M2 Mechanical team has been busy helping more customers than ever this month.
With Russia’s war in Ukraine sending gas prices soaring, the UK’s heavy reliance on gas and electricity, not to mention us having the least energy efficient homes in Europe, all of this has meant that the energy crisis has hit UK household budgets harder than any country in western Europe*.
Even with the Government’s latest announcement to help, the typical household’s energy bill will rise to £2,500 a year from 1 October (from £1,971)**. This means that the rising energy prices are set to hit consumers and businesses hardest this winter, which we have been seeing our customers responding to over the last month.
Homeowners and landlords look to renewables
Just as energy experts are advising for the UK overall, the obvious solution is to move away from our expensive over-dependence on gas power. This is the solution a lot of our home-owning customers appear to have come to. We are seeing more and more customers improving their home insulation, replacing their gas boilers with heat pumps, and opting for renewable solar energy. The latter of which, we have been helping them with.
Non-homeowners make energy efficiencies
We are also seeing a proactive response to the energy crisis from customers who do not own their own homes or cannot afford to invest in renewable energy right now too. An unprecedented number of people have called on us for advice and to bring in our heating and plumbing engineers for boiler servicing.
Our team has been called to do boiler services not just to help people prepare for winter, but also to prevent costly mechanical breakdowns and to ensure their heating systems are as efficient as they can be. We have also been working with customers like this on short-term measures like advising on energy-efficient home appliances and to reduce the flow temperature on condensing gas boilers.
Solar energy on the rise in September
We were delighted to introduce solar PV to our service offering this month, which now means that our renewables solution covers everything from solar panels and battery storage to heat pumps and electric vehicle charge points.
Our qualified team helps with all aspects of renewables installations – from planning and grant application (where applicable), to installation and maintenance – and also guarantees to keep everything in-house. So, no subbies to worry about!
The uptake has been phenomenal this last month. But then, it is to be expected given the current energy crisis circumstances, where the rising energy costs are dramatically reducing the payback time for solar panel installations. In some cases, we’re seeing households predicted a payback time reduced from 10 to 5 years!
Community opportunity to #GoSolar
We were so excited by our newly qualified solar PV team and the immediate uptake we saw in installation requests this month, that we wanted to give something back to our local community. So, on 7 September we launched our #GoSolar free prize draw social media competition to offer everyone in our local Home Counties area an opportunity to win a FREE 4-panel solar installation (worth £4,500).
Doing our bit for a local charity
It’s not all work and no play here at M2 Mechanical. The team joined the It’s A Knockout fun day at Buckingham Town Cricket & Sports Club on Sunday 4 September to help raise money for local charity Alec’s Angels.
As you can see from the pictures below, the team made a competitive splash in the wet and wild challenge across the inflatable assault course, completing the 9 games over 2.5 hours.
Our entry helped the charity to raise £6,035 from the day, which will be going towards Helen and Douglas House Hospice, The Kamtan’s Ward at John Radcliff Hospital and grants to families to make memories.
Every penny is used to benefit sick children and their families, and donations to the charity are always welcome to keep helping them do their amazing work.
