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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, A year's data...da-dah!
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A year’s data…da-dah! Sorry for the long, long gap since my last post - we’ve been busy applying what we learnt on this project to many others around the UK. We finally have a year’s worth of data, represented (rather boringly, sorry) in the graph below:. A bit of background about the electricity consumption number:. It includes all electricity used onsite - i.e. MVHR fans, air source heat pump for heating and hot water when needed and lighting and appliances etc. The gas is for cooking only. Charting th...
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Give me a drink! We have just had our driest spring since records began, or something like that, and the living roof is really feeling the pain. Well, to be precise, one half of it (the bit in the shade) looks wonderful - the essence of an English meadow - and the other half looks like it’s been nuked. Posted 5 years ago. So, we’re starting to get some data from the house. Admittedly, we don’t have the most advanced monitoring systems - i.e. me with a pencil (apart from the MVHR t...Solar thermal output ...
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, Chris Huhne pops in! The Minister for Energy and...
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Chris Huhne pops in! The Minister for Energy and Climate Change - Chris Huhne - visited the house this morning. With the Green Deal launching next year, the tour was part of the Minister’s ongoing fact-finding into low energy housing. He seemed to be impressed by the technical work we have done, as well as the finished product. However, quite understandably, his main concern was in respect of the scalability of a project of this complexity. Posted 5 years ago. The Chiswick Lighting Company. If you would ...
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, Whole house energy costs of less than £200 per...
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Whole house energy costs of less than £200 per year! Exciting news - the energy cost for the house has come in at less than £200 for the year 2011-2012; £189.40 to be precise. The excellent people at Good Energy. Have provided me with a breakdown of all of our bills (gas and electricity) and credits (e.g. Feed-in Tariff and HotROCs) for the last year. It looks like this for each element:. Posted 4 years ago. Charting the epic conversion of a draughty, freezing, solid brick walled Victorian house into a c...
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, Long time…! Can’t believe it’s been 6 months...
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Can’t believe it’s been 6 months since our last blog post. Then again, quite a lot happened in that time, not least that our daughter has arrived (most important, of course) and we’ve moved into this amazing house. The former (pics above) happened in September and we became the first family to be living in a passivhaus retrofit in the UK in October. I’m sure you’re all chomping at the bit to hear about our successful airtightness test, incredible triple-glazed sash windows, fully-functioning ...Charting ...
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, We won!!!
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The house (and greentomatoenergy) has won a 2013 CIBSE Building Performance Award. In the category of Refurbishment Project. This Victorian Mid-terraced refurbishment to passivhaus standard was the standout entry in this category. The project shows what can be achieved in the refurbishment of homes, which will be increasingly important as we look to upgrade our housing stock. We couldn’t put it better ourselves! Well done and thanks to all the team. Posted 3 years ago. The Chiswick Lighting Company.
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, How does the house handle the summer heat?
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How does the house handle the summer heat? We have just had our second summer The good news is that, with a little bit of occupant management, both summers have been a great success – the house has stayed cool and fresh, with minor instances of localised over-heating. When we modelled the pr. C, so we were interested to see how it would perform against the prediction. C for 7.1% of the year so far, this shows higher overheating than PHPP suggested. However, CIBSE defines over heating as 26 °. C This give...
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, Ask me anything
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Charting the epic conversion of a draughty, freezing, solid brick walled Victorian house into a cosy, efficient and beautiful home for the 21st century. Hopefully it will result in the first genuine passivhaus retrofit in the UK, but we suspect we're not the only ones trying to achieve this. If you are interested in doing your own eco-retrofit. Installing renewable energy generation (like solar pv. Panels) or want to build a brand new low energy house, get in touch with us through GreenTomatoEnergy.
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ecohome by GreenTomatoEnergy, International passivhaus open days
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International passivhaus open days. Last Friday and Saturday we opened up the house for International PassivHaus open days. (Seems funny writing that - who woulda thought that’s something we would be end up being involved in.) Anyway, we are proud members of the passivhaus community so it was a pleasure to share the love. I would write all about our wonderful tours, but luckily one of our visitors has kindly saved me the trouble -. Couldn’t have put it better myself! Posted 4 years ago.
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