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FREE Green Open Homes house tour
Muswell Hill: 1920s solid wall brick house retrofit
Presented by: Muswell Hill Sustainability Group| 0 | LONDON: Pages Hill |
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| P | Saturday 16th November, 2024 |
| N | 12:20pm |
Event information
As part of Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Green Open Homes season ...
A 50 minute tour and Q&A opportunity with the host of a retrofitted 1930s semi-detached, solid-wall brick house, including ...
• Loft extension insulation – double-glazed Velux windows, 100mm insulation plasterboards to all walls, 200mm glass-fibre insulation on all surfaces within loft-storage spaces
• Underfloor insulation – glass-fibre insulation between floor-joists installed via crawl space
• Double-glazed leaded windows in original style
• 4 x Solar PV panels with 1.3kw generation capability giving c. 700kWh pa
• Energy-efficient hot water system with insulated Megaflow hot water tank
• Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs), now being replaced with LED lights
• Internal wall insulation using Sempatap, reducing the U-value of a 9” solid wall by 13%
• External wall insulation – 100mm EPS insulation to all three sides of the house, which should now have a U-value of less than 0.3 W/m2K (down from 2.1 W/m2K)
• Heat loss monitoring – before and after projects using a set of hygrometers monitored from Home Assistant, complemented by FLIR heat-images comparisons
Venue information
LONDON: Pages Hill| 0 | Pages Hill London N10 1EH |
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| ` | Please note … • All tours are private homes, generously opened up by owners. Please give plenty of notice if you cannot attend • This is a strictly timed tour • No dogs are permitted • The hosts are not experts. Professional advice recommended |
