The Green Deal and how does it work?
Feed in Tariff rate decrease
The consultation on the Feed in Tariff (FITs) for solar PV installations in being debated in parliament today – they are proposing a 50% reduction in the FIT rate for <4kWp systems from the current 43.1p/kWh to 21p/kWh – due because the FIT system has been so successful and that installation costs have dropped by 30% according to the DECC!! …
Eco Energy Fair
attending the Eco Energy Fair for the third year in a row – Bright Green Homes had lots of interesting conversations – even if many of them were with other companies.
Eco Open House Event
Hi All, well last week we held a morning open house for people to come and visit the renovation in Eastern Terrace as part of the Eco Open House event – http://www.ecoopenhouses.org/houses2011/4-eastern-terrace-mews.html – thank you to all the visitors (over 40 in 3 hours!). If there are any questions about the house, or if anyone was unable to visit in …
Eco Home available for sale
An ecohome designed by Bright Green Homes to achieve Code 6* (zero carbon) of the Code for Sustainable Homes is available for sale to a self builder. A compact plot of land in Brighton, on the edge of the national park and near the Universities, designed by Bright Green Homes as an affordable 3 bedroom eco-home that can achieve Code …
BGH featured in Latest Homes Magazine
We are being featured in the Latest Homes magazine, “the number one property magazine for Brighton, London and across the UK” – http://www.latesthomes.co.uk/ download the article here: Latest Interiors
converting the studio
So, like much of the country everything slowed down for us over the Easter/Bank Holiday/Wedding fiesta that was the end of April, but it was back with all guns ablazing at the beginning of May, so sorry if I haven’t had time to update this blog as much as I would have liked. The conversion of the garage to a …
Final hurdles in Kemp Town
So with the imminent moving in of our clients it is very definitely the last legs of our renovation project in Kemp Town, and the house is looking fantastic. Of course there are always “snags” at the end of a job like this, it is the norm. In fact the television programs that have immaculately finished homes after just 1 …
Week 10 – time for the finishing touches!
So, we are into week 10. This is the week where we are going to have to pull out all the stops, in order to get the finishing touches complete so that the family can move into the property at the weekend. We originally quoted 12 weeks to complete this job, so we are well ahead of schedule, but as …
So week 9 is here
So, rolling into week 9 sees things starting to come together – it is a fact in building in that so much work goes into what lies behind the scenes, that some times it seems for weeks that there is really no progress. Nothing could be further from the truth – in fact in this eco-build we will have gone …