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Recent Blog Posts
- Sustainable bathroom and shower room
- How can I super insulate my floor – part four: under floor heating
- Green Deal changes welcome but much more to achieve for zero carbon homes target
- How can I super insulate my floor – part three: insulation
- How can I super insulate my floor – part two: preparation
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Improvements
- High levels of insulation in the walls, roof and floor
- New brick wall to create second cavity for insulation
- High levels of airtightness
- Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
- Triple glazed windows
- Solar PV
- Solar thermal
- Thermal store
- Wood burning boiler stove
- Under floor heating
- LED lighting
- Low flow plumbing
- New kitchen
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Category Archives: Insulation
How can I super insulate my walls – part one: foundations
We first considered external wall insulation with render then, because our neighbours were concerned about the change from brick walls and wouldn’t give us permission to do the back wall of our house, we switched to internal insulation throughout. The … Continue reading
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My plans for an ultra low energy house
Back in 2004/05 we did a crazy journey driving across the world from Oxford, England, to Oxford, New Zealand, in a 1954 Morris Oxford fundraising for the Red Cross. It wasn’t meant to be an environmental journey but it did … Continue reading
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