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What make is the wood burning stove?
It is Lenius by Consolar UK, supplied by GreenShop Solar in Stroud. In fact they did the solar store, solar thermal panels and the PV.
I hope you have chosen insulation with decrement delay (thermal lag) characteristics for the sloping roof with space below.
A very important consideration; we are using Natural Building Technologies woodfibre based “Pavatherm” boards which have a pretty good decrement factor. For those not familiar with this, it will typically delay the transfer of heat from outside to inside on a hot summer’s day to reduce over-heating. Apart from the roof, all the walls and floors have between 203mm/275mm/57mm of dense clay blockwork or rammed clay to give excellent decrement factors elsewhere.
What is the ‘local company’ that you said you had the fixed window panes made by? (Thanks for the viewing opportunity last Sat.)
I have a few questions. I would like to enclose our front porch. Is there a builder/joiner in the Crewe and Nantwich area who could advise us (and build) the most enviromentally friendly porch?
Also I would like to start replacing windows. The windows on your house are triple glazed. Can you recommend anyone to fit windows in my area?
Finally, if we have our house repointed, should the job be finished off with any special coating?
Linda
Sorry to be boring but, do you have a total cost for the project as yet? I’m sure the benefits are on the triple line but I would like to know if this kind of retrofit could be undertaken by an ‘average’ UK householder?