By Chris Newman January 18th, 2016
Its highly likely that its only in the last few days that you’ve had to think about how cold your house is. There has been a lot of talk recently about the removal of many of the incentives to retrofit i.e....
By Chris Newman December 31st, 2015
Ok, so its our own record, but we’ve had the lowest calendar year energy usage for our demo house so far. I’m putting it down to 3 changes over last year – a) slightly lower occupancy with the children being...
By Chris Newman June 2nd, 2015
It’s been a while since I updated the energy use figures for our demo house…..not because it’s performing badly though. In fact it continues to perform really really well. As there is so much data now I’ve split it out...
By Russell Smith January 6th, 2015
When looking to choose the right option from many available, whatever the setting, it’s a good approach to look at the extremities of choice and work in towards your favoured position. Some choices are easier to make than others of...
By David Shewan July 21st, 2014
In asking the question “does retrofit really work?”, you first need to decide what you mean. Some argue, for example, that the rebound effect – people turning up their heating when their home has been insulated – means that it...
By Chris Newman February 7th, 2014
The annual total energy use continues to drop every month we move forward and get to replace last years leaky house figures with new figures. At the end of December our gas use stood at 8,187kWh, now another month later...
By Chris Newman January 2nd, 2014
Our first calender year of bills and commentary on how we are doing.