Cold at home. House need work? Local councils are doing great work with the Social Housing Decarbonisation Scheme. What I saw was really impressive – all the links needed are in the blog.
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It’s Open House time again. Time to invite people keen on retrofit to visit and experience what an eco friendly, energy efficient house feels like. I
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Final stage of the bedroom retrofit is adapting the window architrave to accommodate the additional 100mm of insulation that is now on the wall. For those
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Bedroom insulation is all up and the room sounds quieter and feels softer. The next stage is for lime plaster to be applied. We needed to
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Next step in insulating the bedroom was gluing the insulation batts directly onto the Diathonite skim. Choosing insulation means reviewing a number of issues: Age of
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The next step in insulating the bedroom is the Diathonite skim. All the old plaster has gone and we’re left with a clean brick wall. The
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Throw nothing away – that’s our mantra – and we’ve done pretty well so far. Removing the chimney breast was no exception. I’d assumed that even
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In our bedroom retrofit, getting rid of the plaster felt like a real drag. But we new it was for the best. So having cleared the
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Finding the right insulation is quite an adventure these days – so many more options out there. And I get to explore them all because we’re
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So many exciting ideas for the shed – solar roof, cork walls, modular building systems…. Our architect is on the case and helping us think outside
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