This is a post that has been generously shared with us by The Green Register‘s Lucy Pedler. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was developed in the 1940s to recover gas from conventional wells and has more recently ‘revolutionised’ the American energy industry, allowing the USA to become temporarily more energy independent by extracting gas (and oil) from small fractures in the …
New Double Garage
We’ve started work on a new project to construct a double garage. First we had to demolish the old single garage and clear the site. Any earthworks at this time of the year is a messy business and with all the recent rain this was no exception. So to cut down on the mud and mess we installed a site loo …
External Wall Insulation
Another external wall insulation project completed! The tricky access on this Victorian house meant that scaffolding had to be brought through the narrow side passage and erected to the rear elevation. A substantial amount of external pipework had to be removed and re-fixed to allow space for the insulation and render. The existing windows were removed and replaced with new …
Victorian Terrace Renovation up-date
We are well into our Victorian Terrace home renovation project that we have been working with our friends at Cityzen Design on. The external walls have come down and the new steel beams supporting the 1st floor are in place. Thomas and Jo have a lovely new boiler and underfloor insulation to keep them warm during the winter months. A …
External Wall Insulation & Cladding
So – hi all, it seems i have fallen some way behind in keeping our blog up to date – its been a really busy few months and I think my batteries needed a recharge… which I was luck enough to have last week… more of that in another blog… So with our current project we have had a few …
The first of the windows are in..
So, the first of the windows at Elms Lea have been installed on the first floor of the house. They look amazing, and will look even better when the cork external wall insulation and the featherboard cladding have been added. Also while we have been up on the scaffolding it is apparent that the seagulls that live on the roof …
Cavity wall insulation being installed
Just a couple of photos to show the cavity wall insulation being installed at the 4th of our GDPP projects by our friends at Downs Energy Ltd. A really quick and hassle free way to reduce the energy lost through the walls of a cavity walled home by 4/5ths… A no brainer!
Been a terrific week!
Several of the GDPP projects have completed their external wall insulation… The 6 ‘big projects’ of the GDPP are well under way – the 4 ‘small projects’ that BGH have almost been done – working on the 4th and last this week…
Week 13 – time to complete phase 1
So it’s a great feeling coming to the end of phase 1 of our project. Just goes to show that working with a great team we can really deliver a fantastic house in amazing time. The whole house has been rebuilt from the ground up. New underfloor insulation and heating, airtight construction, new services, heating systems, solar integrated, new baths, …
Project update week 13
So very quickly we have moved into week 13 and the finishing touches are all happening. We have had several issues with Internet suppliers of bathrooms, tiles etc… Delivery companies dropping pallets etc. which have put all our schedules out. (Special mention for www.traderadiators.co.uk, www.wallsandfloors.co.uk who despite causing lots of grief through their delivery companies managed to eventually sort things …