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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....
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...
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...
Its been 2 months since my last blog update saying I was looking forward to the the first proper winter of energy monitoring. I’ve updated the graph below to show figures up to the 1st December energy use. Obviously the...
With the house almost finished from an energy point of view – a little bit of work on some ceiling spots left, I’ll be keeping a close eye on the meter readings during the upcoming heating season. I started taking...
We’ve entered our demonstration project onto CarbonBuzz and will continue to enter data as we take meter readings. Its interesting to see that despite the house still having work to be done (i.e. holes!) in the first year and a...
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...