Code for Sustainable Homes
Cutting water consumption is a compulsory element of CSH and requires consumption per person/ per day to go down from a typical 150 litres to 105 litres (Level 3) to as low as 80 litres per day (Level 6). Such reductions can only be achieved using a judicial combination of water saving technologies.
Code
for Sustainable Homes pack
Green Building Store now offers a package of water-saving products which can help specifiers achieve Level
3 & 4 in the Water category of Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH). Green
Building Store's CSH pack contains water-saving WCs, wash basin taps,
kitchen taps, shower fittings and baths and can reduce water consumption to
less than 103 litres/person/day.
The Code for Sustainable Homes contains mandatory requirements for water
consumption. To attain levels 3 & 4 of the Code, homes must have a target
water consumption of less than (or equal to) 105 litres/ person/ day. Green
Building Store's CSH package uses a judicious combination of water saving
technologies to help specifiers meet this goal easily.
The new Ecocomfort bath, introduced by Green Building Store as part of the CSH
pack, offers a robust commonsense solution to water-efficiency. Designed to
contain only 140 litres when filled to capacity, it has been carefully designed
to taper to fit the human form, offering a perfectly adequate but reduced
volume bath. The Ecocomfort bath can help specifiers who don't want to get rid
of baths altogether but who are working to the strict requirements of the Code.
Other elements of the CSH package have also been designed to offer robust and
long-lasting water savings. Green Building Store favours the use of leak-free
ES4 siphon flush WCs over valve flush WCs which can leak water imperceptibly
down the back of WC pan when the valve fails or wears out. It also aims to
offer products which are not obviously water-efficient in performance - in
other words products which can be used without causing user frustration or
feelings of inadequate flow. For example, 6 litre aerating showerheads in the CSH
pack are designed to offer the feeling of a powerful shower, while kitchen taps
offer a high enough flow rate for washing up or filling a kettle.