Posts Tagged ‘refurbishment’

This is the second instalment of build Dave Manby’s review of the bold and ambitious Culford Road refurb project. This Hackney project aimed for outstanding efficiency in reshaping a Victorian house. So much so limited heating requirements are required. So, does it work as a house and are there policy ideas or implications for the [...]

Guest post by Houston Neal
A fast growing segment of the United States green construction market is building retrofits. Numerous reports indicate retrofitting will become a huge market in the US over the next three to four years. To take advantage of upcoming opportunities, electricians will need to “green” their skill-set. Software [...]

For those of you eagerly anticipating news on the refurb of my house – which could well add up to the fingers on one or two of my hands, or in fact be zero – I have some news. The barrier preventing me from progressing has well and truly been shattered. That sounds quite melodramatic. [...]

After a relatively quiet month or so we’re now firmly in events season. There’s two of them to kick the year off , BSEC, the schools exhibition and conference run by my company, this week followed swiftly by the behemoth that is Ecobuild thre working days later. A chance then for something of a [...]

I am currently writing this sat next to an electric heater wearing a slanket. For those unaware of the unexpected Christmas phenomenon that was the slanket it’s a blanket with sleeves. Yes, you look like you’re in a straight-jacket, and it may well have been a seasonal gimmick, but for dwellers of leaky Victorian houses [...]

Arse about tit given my last post but here’s the most popular posts on Zerochampion in 2009. A shout out to the team behind the East London refurbishment project who guest-posted during the year and proved plenty of value throughout the year. And to architectural student Benjamin Kinch for his thoughtful piece on BREEAM. Here [...]

Guest blog by Robert Cohen, technical director at Camco, who is undertaking an ambitious green refurbishment project in east London. Here he reveals some numbers on the performance of the house and the long painful process in achieveing and measuring air tightness
In my first blog in this series (January this year), our project was on [...]

Continuing the series of guest posts on a refurbing a Victorian house in Hackney. Joint client Bronwen Manby takes up the story, highlighting window drama, working with her brother the builder and questioning the point of party wall surveyors
So of course the ‘extreme refurb’ is over budget and behind on timetable, but
not drastically so – [...]

Continuing the series on my personal refurbishment
You wonder why the general consumer can get a tad confused about how to progress with domestic building work. Then you do it yourself and wonder how anyone comes to coherent decision. An example: my wife and I have had the pleasure of nigh-on six or seven plumbers inspect [...]

First in a series seeking free advice for my upcoming refurb project
So, about six weeks have passed since I moved into my Tooting pile, if that expression doesn’t sound somewhat inappropriate. A month and a half of doing the easy, if still sweat inducing, stuff. Pulling up, ripping or steaming off or smashing into smithereens. [...]