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!!!5 YEARS OF DATA!!! It seems like an age ago that retrofitting the UK’s first passive house was something that took up the vast majority of my waking life. And indeed much has happened since...

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Ecobuild 2013 - Living in a passivhaus retrofit : Here are the slides from our talk at this year’s Ecobuild. There’s a bit of data and a flavour of life in the house.

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Extract air filter - this is the one that captures nasties as the leave the house... Incoming air filter, from inside the MVHR unit Exterior air filter, the one hidden in the bird house "B...

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The house (and greentomatoenergy) has won a 2013 CIBSE Building Performance Award in the category of REFURBISHMENT PROJECT. The judges said: “This Victorian Mid-terraced refurbishment to pas...

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We have just had our second summer The good news is that, with a little bit of occupant management, both summers have been a great success – the house has stayed cool and fresh, with minor i...

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Exciting news - the energy cost for the house has come in at less than £200 for the year 2011-2012; £189.40 to be precise. The excellent people at Good Energy have provided me with a breakdo...

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Thanks for all the responses to our post about data - it’s great to know there’s so much interest and enthusiasm for passivhaus out there. As always, the blog was deliberately as non-technica...

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Hi, Either I am really stupid, or tumblr really doesn't show the date when a message was sent. So, if it has taken me ages to reply to your message, then apologies. To answer your question, i...

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Sorry for the long, long gap since my last post - we’ve been busy applying what we learnt on this project to many others around the UK. We finally have a year’s worth of data, represented (...

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Last Friday and Saturday we opened up the house for International PassivHaus open days. (Seems funny writing that - who woulda thought that’s something we would be end up being involved in.) An...

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Chris Huhne pops in! The Minister for Energy and Climate Change - Chris Huhne - visited the house this morning. With the Green Deal launching next year, the tour was part of the Minister’s ong...

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The emerald forest, on the level The full picture, from above GIVE ME A DRINK! We have just had our driest spring since records began, or something like that, and the living roof is really ...

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So, we’re starting to get some data from the house. Admittedly, we don’t have the most advanced monitoring systems - i.e. me with a pencil (apart from the MVHR temperature data, which is quit...

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MY HOW YOU’VE GROWN! Barely 1 month old and the roof meadow is already starting to flourish.

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Before... Waterproof membrane (EPDM) EPDM, tucked in under the flashing Drainage layer, upside down, oops! Right way up now, with "earth" on it Our very impressive rig Fully earthed...

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WE DID IT!!! The house has been officially certified as a passivhaus, hooray! It has not been easy, but today we were presented with our passivhaus certification by the Godfather of the movem...

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the certificate blower door - pressurises the house testing leaks with a smoke "gun" air coming in through a velux window Pressure testing The pressure test was a pretty nerve-wracking m...

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Obligatory cheesy photo Some of Ed's ducting handiwork A pensive moment TEAM PROFILE 3 - SUPERSTAR ENGINEER, DESIGNER AND PROJECT MANAGER This is Ed. Ed is responsible for much of the det...

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SOLAR THERMAL IN ACTION This is a photo of the solar thermal controls, taken at 11.25 today. It shows that: the temperature of the fluid coming into the tank is 50 degrees celsius The temperatu...

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A window opened on tilt Da-dah! In all their external glory A closed window, oooh! A crappy wall for fixing to Crappy wall made less crappy In the workshop PROUDLY PRESENTING “SUPER...

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