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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 (info) |
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| P | Saturday 8th November, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 11:15am Start time: 11:15am |
| . | All ages |
| C | Walking Tour |
Event information
As part of Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Green Open Homes season ...
This property is next door to the "1920's solid wall brick house retrofit home", also part of Green Open Homes, so you may wish to book consecutive time slots for these visits.
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
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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 |
