As part of Muswell Hill Sustainability Group's Green Open Homes season: an annual opportunity to see sustainable domestic energy in situ, be inspired by emissions & energy reducing measures and pick brains for lived experiences and expert advice …

Join us for a 50-minute tour, with Q&A with the host (and underfloor insulation installer), of a comprehensively and cost-effectively retrofitted, 1900, Edwardian end-of-terrace house, including ...

• Period house character retained: bare wood floors, sash windows, coving, tiled hall, dado rail etc

• Compartmentalized house plan as do not need to heat the whole house all the time

• Draft reduction via internal porch, double doors to attic (& letter box!), interlined curtains,

• Underfloor insulation for exposed wood floors with Thermafleece Cosywool

• All internal faces of external walls insulated with 10mm ‘Sempatap’ internal wall insulation

• Attic roof insulation with Kingspan and 10mm ‘Sempatap’. Plus ‘attic above the attic’

• Refurbished original sash windows with ‘Magneglaze’ secondary glazing on all windows

• 2 x 2m2 solar panels for hot water with large well insulated tank (‘AOS Solar’)

• 8 x 265W Solar PV panels on South & West elevations (‘Ecodomus’) plus 4 x 465W PV panels on slightly North facing top roof (Good Energy)

• 8kWh battery (Sigenergy)

• Air Source Heat Pump (Mitsubishi Zubadan R32) works perfectly without the need to upgrade pipes and radiators

• Integration of heat pump with 14 PV panels, solar hot water system and battery

• Two wood burning stove (‘Clearview Vision’ in living room can heat whole house)

• Continuous running low energy fan in bathroom (‘Vent Axia – Lo Carbon’)

• Low energy lighting throughout

• Water saving devices: siphon bath water recycling, low flow washers in most taps

• Living roofs on ‘all’ flat surfaces from recycled carpet (‘Green Roof Options’)

• Living wall, wildlife meadow, bees, vineyard and pond

THE HOMEOWNERS say …

“We have carried out the energy saving refit of our house for several reasons including comfort (a warm house is more comfortable than a cold house) plus doing the right thing in terms of reducing our carbon emissions. The energy efficiency renovation process has also been very interesting and satisfying. Helping others to reduce their emissions in a cost-effective manner, including avoiding some of the blind alleys we went down, is also very rewarding.”

TOUR DATES available for this house …

Saturday 7th November: 10am and 2pm

Sunday 15th November: 10am and 2pm

PLEASE NOTE …

Tours will begin promptly at their start times

Full addresses will be emailed to those with booked tickets the day before the tour

If fully booked, a waiting list can be joined and notice given if tickets are released and allocated to the first names on it. If you can no longer use your booked ticket, please cancel it through WeGotTickets, so that it can be re-homed.

ABOUT … Green Open Homes

For 14 years, Muswell Hill Sustainability Group has been running a three-week Green Open Homes season every November, including expert speaker meetings on a range of energy efficiency topics, and tours of a cross section of 10 – 15 local homes that have been future-proofed against heat, cold, energy bills and emissions, amongst other climate change threats. They range from quick fixes to major installations to entire builds, with the intention of offering unbiased, experienced and – where installers are present - expert advice; to inspire, inform and encourage visitors considering similar.

MHSG is pleased to be presenting Green Open Homes this year in collaboration with Muswell Hill & Fortis Green Association, a long-standing (78 years!), independent, non-partisan amenity society, committed to protecting the local environment and quality of life across Muswell Hill, Fortis Green, and Alexandra ward.

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