Building Regulations in the UK have been interpreted for years as demanding that refurbished walls need to meet a U value of 0.3. Products have therefore been designed using BR443 and BS5250:2011 to comply with this. Unfortunately, BS5250:2011 states that …
CADW purchased this old terrace in Cwmdare in order to preserve it for future generations to see how workers cottages were originally built, but also to see what sympathetic improvements can be made in order to bring it up to more …
Eco Home Centre has a great relationship with ARU Joinery in Estonia. Now the lovely people at ARU have developed a brand new ultra insulating range of doors and windows for the Passive House / Code for Sustainable Homes Level …
Building Regulations in the UK have been interpreted for years as demanding that refurbished walls need to meet a U value of 0.3. Products have therefore been designed using BR443 and BS5250:2011 to comply with this. Unfortunately, even BS5250:2011 states …
The last post on Vacuum Glazing reminded me of another fact when looking at glazing. Most new glazing have a few energy saving features: 1. Glass coating (commonly known as low E glazing) 2. Low conductivity spacers (the material that …
Pilkington Spacia is one of the new generation of high performance vacuum windows Vacuum glazing has now appeared on the UK market and will be sold into the heritage market as a highly energy efficient option for windows where thin …
In an early post called ‘are solid walls really that bad at insulating’ I wrote about the fact that some research has been done on U values of solid walled buildings and how they were different from those calculated in …
For anyone involved in the world of building or DIY we are always being told that solid walled houses are really bad insulators. Certainly compared to modern theoretical standards of building the computer programmes tell us that old solid walls …
