Tips and advice on how to keep costs under control during your eco self-build.
Tips and advice on how to keep costs under control during your eco self-build.
Blog by the occupants of the Kirkburton Passivhaus, sharing their experiences of the first 9 months of living in the house.
Blog written by the owner of the Denby Dale Passivhaus, sharing data from gas bills over the last ten years and sharing their experiences of living in one of the UK’s first Passivhaus projects.
Blog looking at possible retrofit measures for a whole house retrofit project of a Yorkshire weavers’ cottage project. The blog looks at the potential insulation and airtightness options under consideration for the roof, floor, walls and windows.
Green Building Store is lending its voice to campaigns to cut VAT on retrofit building work. In this blog we look at the environmental and economic arguments for cutting VAT for retrofits and feature two campaigns calling on the UK Government to act.
Blog by Green Building Store Director Bill Butcher outlining the key features of a radical retrofit of a weaver’s cottage we are advising on and puts forward possible first steps that we would suggest when undertaking a radical retrofit.
How-to guide to insulation and airtightness strategies for a suspended timber floor. Advice on how to access the floor, from both below and above, with a list of the airtightness products needed to complete the project.
Blog outlining the detailing of the flat roof of the Kirkburton Passivhaus, including the airtightness and insulation strategies and how thermal bridging was minimised in the roof.
Blog by Bill Butcher on the Kirkburton Passivhaus project, including decisions on the heating and MVHR and results of the project’s final airtightness test.
Green Building Store Directors and staff attended Global Climate Strike events in Huddersfield, Leeds, London and Bangor on Friday 20 September 2019, as part of the world’s largest climate mobilisation to date.
