FREE Green Open Homes house tour

Event information

As part of Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Green Open Homes season ...

A 50 minute tour and Q&A opportunity with the home owners, and their Air Source Heat Pump installer, of a retrofitted, Edwardian end-of-terrace house, including ...

Whole house
• All windows double-glazed
• Extensive lofts insulated
• Solar panel installation (2012)
• Solar Edge app
• Solar panel battery storage
• Vaillant heat pump(s) 2x7kWhr (with Weather Compensation) (2025)
• Reflector foil behind all radiators

Kitchen
• LED lights
• Underfloor heating
• Dishwasher/washing machine only used in hours of sunlight

Living Rooms
• Void under one small sitting room insulated with ‘Cosywool’
• 2 wood-burning stoves (and flues) + carbon monoxide monitor (emergency heating only these days)

Hall
• New front door (and surround)

Landing
• Double glazed skylight (with DIY light tunnel – thermal gain from south-facing roof and sun)

Main bedroom & ensuite bathroom
• LED downlighters

The hosts say: "The house was originally built in 1909 and we modernised it in 2000 with other changes, over the years, that include double-glazing of all the windows, insulation, solar panels and batteries and, now, an air source heat pump."