Winds and decisions

High winds were forecast so yesterday was spent scaffolding the 2 A frames and the East wall.
Not the most lady like of jobs...but needs must! The winds came and went and so do my ideas!

I have decided that insulation insulation insulation is the key to a warm home, so thermalite blocks and kingspan in the floor and perhaps in the south gable to bring up the uv values.

I feel that solar slates can meet our DHW demands and i am going to look at a log burner with a boiler for winter space heating and DHW.

Red sandstone window ledges I think!

The clouds are moving

As i have said earlier( i think). Goggle is great but too much info becomes very confusing...thermal stores, khw, controllers, zones, How confusing! But Mark Brinkleys site has blown away the clouds, well, for today anyway. I am now thinking 'no ground source heat pump but solar slates, Eco Cat thermal store and wood burner...' we will see. I'll probably be back to an oil fired boiler tomorrow!

Decisions Decisions...

I've been thinking, there must be more sociable and modern ways of reducing our carbon footprint and being planet friendly, than taking the light bulbs out and boycotting supermarkets. David and the girls are a little fed up of being in the dark with no 'food'!. So i'm considering ground source heat pump and solar panels for the hot water. The solar panels can be quite ugly but then again so is a world without trees, so i really must think green!

The Ground source heat pumps will take about 5 yrs to re-coup the costs but there is so much mixed info- Google just does not help! So my My bed time reading IS REALLY BECOMING EXCITING 'The Green Self Build'

click on the green books icon for website to buy.