A new project we have is the conversion of a separate kitchen, hall & dining room on the groundfloor of a Victorian terraced house into one open plan space for the family to enjoy together, and then a new Loft Conversion (starting in the new year). Working with the fantastic clients Thomas & Jo and our architectural partner on this …
Loftzone
One of the biggest barriers to getting the right U value in your loft is losing the storage room… Well, with loftzone this is no longer an issue – you don’t even have to completely clear out the loft first!!
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 …
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…
GDPP second house
So, this week sees the second of the Green Deal Pioneer Places projects beginning for BGH. This project on a classic semi detached 1950s house in Mile Oak represents what the Green Deal is all about really. Rather than the full holistic fix that BGH does on its normal projects, this is a loft insulation top up (currently inky about …
Week 14
Our clients have moved in this weekend…. Delighted to be able to hand over the house with phase 1 complete…. They are extremely happy with the house and are just wading through all of their boxes etc trying to find homes for their possessions So the last things we are doing in phase 1 are the finishing touches like the …
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 …
Week 10 – project update XII
Despite it being a frantic week last week I seem to have taken very few pictures… much of what we’ve been working on has been fitting the bathroom ready for tiling, fitting skirtings, finally sorting out the drainage in the annexe, and also getting the heating up and running (one of the pics below shows steam coming from the top …