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Comment on Blog by Ruth Kelly

Ruth Kelly — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:02:41 +0000

Hi,

I went on the Carbon Co-op tour at the weekend and had a look round your house – thank you.

We are planning to install passive solar water heating this summer and I wondered if you could recommend an installer? We’ve got a quote off the web bit it would be great to have a recommendation.

We also wondered about the foil stuff you put under your roof (TLX Gold?). We are having our roof recovered in July so if we were going to do something like that now is the time. We couldn’t find anything useful about it on the web and wondered if you could tell us a bit more about it and where to get it from.

Many thanks,

Ruth

Comment on Blog by Keith Baker

Keith Baker — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:11:39 +0000

HI,

How did the Spacetherm-ing go? I struggle a bit with the ‘science part’- but is it really a miracle product for insulating damp solid walls? And how expensive is it, can you recall?
Regards
Keith

Comment on About by Stephen Andrews

Stephen Andrews — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:55:57 +0000

Hi there,

Excellent stie, I congratulate you on a huge ammount of work.

Couple of comments of a technical nature:

Why did you not consider external insulation with expanded polystyrene (EPS) boards and render? EPS is recyclable and breathable, with low costs.

Do you know the BFRC (www.bfrc.org) rating of the windows, or U-value?

Did you have a thermal evaluation of the house prior to all the work?

Are you doing a post-work thermal evaluation?

Arew you going to undertake an air permeability test?

And not meaning to be picky but; Thermal conductivity (lambda value) should be in W/m.K and U-values are in W/m².K

Keep up the good work!

Regards,

Stephen.