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Energy Retrofitting of Existing Houses
Energy Retrofitting to Houses Part one of a two part blog on retrofitting of existing houses Today there is a huge industry insulating existing houses with claims that wall insulation, roof insulation will reduce your heat loss and reduce your … Continue reading →
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Performance Gap in House Construction
Performance Gap Performance gap is the difference between the theoretical performance and the actual performance of houses in terms of energy consumption. Performance gaps are all around us every day and we are normally not aware of the gap mainly … Continue reading →
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Simple Tips to Kitchen Layouts
Simple Tips on Kitchen Layout The Kitchen is the social center of any house. It is the focal point of the house and family. Whether it’s just a snack or preparing a big meal the area is used for conversation as … Continue reading →
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Simple tips in setting out power and data points
Simple Tips in setting out electrics and Data points in a new house The positioning of everything in a new house is important. In particular positioning of sockets and data points is very important You only have one chance to … Continue reading →
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Rain Water Harvesting
Rainwater Harvesting New houses will be required to install a rainwater harvesting system by 2015 and most local authorities are conditioning it with planning permissions. At the onset the cost of rainwater harvesting is expensive and the return on the … Continue reading →
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What solar should I use.
Building a new house requires a renewable energy source. This source is measured typically in solar renewables. If you opt for water heating then the requirement are solar panels with an energy requirement of 10KW/m2/annum If you opt for photovoltaic … Continue reading →
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Passive House Revolution
The Passive revolution House building is set to revolutionise by the onset of Passive Houses. Passive houses answer nearly all the requirements in energy saving of new housing stock. The upper limits of passive houses are quite onerous on developers … Continue reading →
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Whole house automation
What is Home Automation. One of the great things about the internet is its ability to control remotely. When this is applied to houses it opens up a whole range of elements that can be controlled remotely. Home automation gives … Continue reading →
Self building now a dangerous game.
Building control Act 2014 The Building control act is now law and as such all the arguments about it are mute. ( for the moment) In many ways the act was a necessary evil in that it for the first … Continue reading →
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Renewable Energy For houses
Renewable Energy Requirements Water Solar Heating The building regulations call as a minimum requirement of 10 kWh/m2/annum of renewable energy for hot water. A typical well sized solar thermal system should provide around 50-70% of the domestic hot water requirements of … Continue reading →
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