House Summary
Owner(s):
Charlie Bennett
House Type:
Victorian 3-bed with partial rebuild and extension
Carbon saving:
61%
Measures installed:
- Double glazing, timber frame, U=1.8.
- Original solid walls: Internal insulation - foil quilt + 25mm cavity + 50mm phenolic foam + 25mm cavity
- New walls: 50mm cavity + 50mm phenolic foam. Original loft: 300mm cellulose fibre
- Link section: 100mm phenolic foam + foil quilt
- Bathhouse section: 50mm phenolic foam + foil quilt
- Rest of house: 300mm mineral wool
- Solid floor + 100mm phenolic foam
- Condensing oil boiler with good controls
- Zone controls to underfloor heating on ground floor
- Solar thermal panels
- Low energy lighting
- 2 lights pipes
- Low energy appliances
- 2 woodburning stoves
- Sedum roof section
- Handmade/reclaimed clay bricks and roof tiles
- Rainwater harvesting
- Clay paints
