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title: "About Home Comfort Lab | Home Comfort Lab"
description: "Who runs Home Comfort Lab, how it is paid for, and how we decide what to recommend."
url: https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/about/
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# About Home Comfort Lab

Who runs Home Comfort Lab, how it is paid for, and how we decide what to recommend.

By [Pete Harvey](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/about/), editor. Updated 14 October 2026.

Home Comfort Lab helps people in the UK live in homes that feel good to be in: warm in winter, cool in summer, dry all year, and affordable to run.

## Who writes it

Home Comfort Lab is written and edited by Pete Harvey. Pete has spent most of his working life around homes and the people who live in them.

The site comes from a simple interest: helping people live in happy, healthy spaces. Damp, cold and stuffy rooms make homes miserable, and the advice people find is often either a sales pitch or a wall of jargon. Pete writes the answers he'd want himself: what's causing the problem, what it costs to fix, and what's worth buying.

## What we do

- Answer the questions people ask when they find mould or wet windows, in plain language, with the next step.
- Build calculators that use the current energy price cap, so running costs are real numbers rather than guesses.
- Recommend products by what their specifications say they do, and explain why each one suits a situation.

## What we don't do

- We don't claim to have tested a product unless we have, and the page will say so when we do.
- We don't copy or rewrite shop reviews.
- We don't give medical or legal advice. Health and legal pages link to the official guidance they are based on.

## How the site is paid for

When you buy something through a link to Amazon, we earn a small commission at no cost to you. [Read the full affiliate disclosure](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/affiliate-disclosure/).

## Corrections and contact

If something on the site is wrong or out of date, please tell us and we'll fix it. Email [hello@homecomfortlab.co.uk](mailto:hello@homecomfortlab.co.uk).

## Read next

- [Keep your home warm, dry and cool for less](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/) (Home)
  Plain answers on damp, mould, heating and keeping cool in UK homes, with calculators and running costs at the current energy price cap.
- [How we calculate running costs and recommendations](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/how-we-calculate/) (About this site)
  The energy prices, formulas and rules of thumb behind every figure and calculator on this site.
- [Affiliate disclosure](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/affiliate-disclosure/) (About this site)
  How this site earns money from links to Amazon and other shops, and what that does and does not change.
- [Press: the Home Comfort Cost Index](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/press/) (About this site)
  The latest Home Comfort Cost Index findings, data and charts to download, quotes from the editor, and how to get in touch.

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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Links to shops are marked, and earning from them never decides what we recommend. [How this site is paid for](https://homecomfortlab.co.uk/affiliate-disclosure/).

Running costs use 26.32p per kWh for electricity and 7.97p per kWh for gas, the [Ofgem price cap, Direct Debit average for England, Scotland and Wales](https://ofgem.gov.uk/news/changes-energy-price-cap-between-1-october-and-31-december-2026) for 1 October to 31 December 2026.