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2013 Hope Villa figures on CarbonBuzz and Low Energy Building Database
By Chris Newman January 29th, 2013
We’ve now got our first calendar year of bills (as opposed to first consecutive months) and its starting to look really good. Our Hope Villa figures for the first full year of a completed house will be around May but...
The house was recently featured in September edition of the RIBA Journal.Parity Projects recently completed its second demonstration retrofit on a newly purchased Victorian semi-detached property in South London. Parity’s first demonstration house focussed on installing and testing a wide...
A mini post about our installation’s performance in its first (not such a sunny spring and summer) year. Our PV installer provided the following predictions: SAP – 1,858kWh and PVSol – 1,962 kWh. In the end we actually generated 2,111kWh...
This posting is mainly a lot of photos showing some of the detailing around the windows. The key thing to note is that because we have replace the windows, the thicker sash boxes that are needed to accommodate the thicker windows...
Our house had PVC windows almost throughout that were ill fitting and really didn’t suit the property. These have been replaced with new Building Regulation-standard double-glazed sash windows. The front ground floor bay was the only remaining original sash window...
We’ve been making a lot of effort insulating and sealing up our house in order to save money on our bills and reduce our CO2 emissions….so there is no point punching lots of holes in it in the bathrooms and kitchen….equally...