With all the "eco" elements of the refurbishment having been completed, we recently got a revised energy performance assessment done. The surveyor was very impressed with the house, and said they couldn't think of anything else we could have done to it.
And the result is...
A quick update: the EWI has now been rendered, here's what it looks like:
The last couple of weeks have been spent mostly on the rear external wall insulation.
After a break from the 'eco' aspects of the project, this week we completed the installation of the rainwater harvesting tank.
It's turning out to be very difficult to keep up the air-tightness, now that we've got various other trades involved.
Today we got the boiler fired up, and the heating running on the first and second floors.
The blog has been quiet these past two weeks, partly because we've been in a state of limbo with the builders.
Since the last blog post, some things have been happening at the house, but of a non-eco variety. Most of last week the plasterers were in, and we've now got all but one of the rooms skimmed. Today, Roy the cornice man was doing some repair work to the cornices...
The builders have now started fitting UdiReco to the external rear wall of the house:
Here you're looking at offcuts of Spacetherm which, cumulatively, are equivalent to one full sheet:
I'm back on-site now. The last of the Udireco internal wall insulation went up today:
The builders have been doing general making good and plasterboarding work, in preparation for the plasterers coming in and putting the skim coat on the remaining rooms...United Utilities have now opened the stretch of road in front of our house...
The builders started putting up the UdiReco in the ground floor hallway and progressed up to the first floor bathroom. Here's a photo of where it was up to as of Friday...
The Spacetherming of the front elevation is now complete...
