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Jonti
Tasks for this winter:
1. Get another 200 mm of loft insulation in quick.
2. Use recycled baked bean cans (or whatever canned food you use) stuck down with silicone to seal the downlighter gaps on the top floor ceiling. Drill a hole in the top of the can and use a rubber grommet to feed the cables through. Allows heat dissipation from the lamp and you can insulate over with confidence.
3. Replace the downlights with LED if they are still tungsten!
4. Seal as many draughts as you can.
5. Fit chimney balloons to all unused chimneys.
6. Ensure all windows and doors have curtains or blinds.
7. Set up some monitoring of energy use and log it on a spreadsheet, compensate for degree days and then you can see how well you're doing.
Then spend the rest of the winter trawling through GBF and asking questions to plan your work for next year...
Spent today clearing out the loft of all the junk left b the previous inhabitants. I wasn't sure - given the lack of insulation of the rest of the house, whether another 200mm of insulation would make a lot of difference, but its definitely in the plan.
Have also ordered some of these ( http://www.downlightsdirect.co.uk/aurora-insulation-coverable-bathroom-downlight.html) to replace the downlighters in the bath room (the existing ones fell out when I went to replace a bulb - and I thought some properly bathroom rated ones might be good). They claim to be good to insulate straight over.
I also noticed that there's no ventilation (eaves or otherwise) in the loft, but it is a slate roof, so I get the impression that air moves relatively freely in anyway. Is this right?
Finally, have started uploading readings to imeasure so I've got a log of energy usage.
I think this place is going to keep me busy, I've certainly got a lot to learn!
We have a similar little one gong one here:
http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/comments.php?DiscussionID=8966&page=1
Simple format to follow.
There is also the 'Heating On' one that may be due to start up again soon:
http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/comments.php?DiscussionID=6260&page=1
It's been organised 'by invite' so far, but to be honest anyone who wants to spend an evening in the pub talking about green building on a technical level (i.e pretty-much like this forum but higher bandwidth and more beer) is welcome.
Conveniently there's a meet on thursday 17th Oct. Mail me or the list if you are interested.
BTW, I run a monthly one in Brighton - every second Tues of the month, 7 pm in The Battle of Trafalgar. I've registered a domain, but have yet to put any content up (2014 is looking less hectic at the moment, but we'll see).
Sounds like a great plan, but I don't think I'll be able to make it this week. Hopefully next time....