Eco Paint Chooser
Paint seems like such a simple product. Just some colour for your home surely? Not at all! Paint can ruin your building projects if you get it wrong. It can cause damp where damp never was before. It can cost …
Year: 2012
Green Deal – too good to be true?
Green Deal – the Government’s Flagship programme to improve our inefficient housing stock at no apparent cost to the owners. All approved, regulated, guaranteed, ……. What can go wrong??? The basic premise is to give people the opportunity to get …
Expanding foam – a natural alternative
Expanding foam is used extensively for window and door fitting. Terrible stuff. It is used to cover up poor workmanship and it also can fail quickly and leave you with poorly insulated and leaky window surrounds (note that some foam …
New advice service from Eco Home Centre
Eco Home Centre specialises in eco refurbishment of properties in and around SE Wales. We have been helping people with their homes for over a decade and we know that we have a lot of advice to offer homeowners / …
Unifying mixed surfaced walls
Old walls can have a right old mix of surfaces on them – some old lime, some newer gypsum, paint, filler …. Trying to get an even coat of a plaster or paint over the top of this can be …
Partial Cavity Fill Insulation on new cavity walls
I have just been over to a community project in Cardiff to have a look at their new building (and old building that is suffering from poor workmanship and maintenance). The new building looks great, but closer inspection revealed …
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Underfloor vents – keep ’em clear
Underfloor vents are really important for the health of your home. The airflow that is facilitated keeps any excess moisture from the ground away from your floor joists, thus helping to keep them damp and rot free. It is really …
Grey water recycling
Greywater is waste water from showers, baths, washbasins, washing machines and kitchen sinks. You can collect it from some or all of these sources and, after treatment, use around the home for purposes that do not require drinking water quality …
Self build the way forward for communities?
This is a picture of the Wintles development in Shropshire that is based on the principles set out in ‘A Pattern Language’. The houses were laid out in a master plan, but people have been involved in designing and building …
Auro Paint On-Line Colour Chooser
Auro have developed a new tool for choosing colours for the different rooms in your house. This is a free on-line interaction programme that allows you to choose different designs for walls and wood quickly and easily so that you …