14 - 30 Oct 2023
Dates: 14th and 15th October
Opening times: 10am - 4pm
Access/parking: Level access to house, on street and driveway parking
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New build Passive House built 2019. Built in blockwork with timber frame, triple glazed windows and reconstituated roof slates.
The house is square. It has a raft foundation comprising 250mm dense polystyrene (Jablite EPS) with 250mm concrete (containing the underfloor heating pipes) on top. Blockwork walls with 250mm Permarock EPS insulation outside. Warm roof with 400mm Warmcell insulation. Our roof is made of an OSB box with dividers. The whole house is encased in a complete tea-cosy of insulation.
The windows and doors are triple glazed and the whole house is very airtight (0.5 airchanges / hr), so we need a Mechanical Ventilation and Heat Recovery system (MVHR) which extracts moist air from kitchen and bathrooms passing it through a heat exchanger to heat fresh air brought into living and bedrooms.
We have a roof overhang on south side to reduce overheating which provides a lovely veranda.
A 9kw gas boiler runs the underfloor heating, two towel rails upstairs and the hot water occasionally. 4.8Kwh array of solar PV which generates over 4,000 kWh electricity per year.
EPC rating - A.
For more information please see attached PDF.
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