How the house is behaving thermally !!

Well as we are in the middle of several things at once but not far enough along on any of them to post them I thought I would re visit the steps we have taken to make the house thermally more comfortable than when we moved in nearly four years ago. This year is the [...]

Draft Stoppa installation

  The insulating of the house has been a great success with a noticeable difference in the temperature in the house during this winter.  However every time I was in the shower with the exhaust fan on I couldn’t help thinking that all a fan is, is a big hole (approx 30cm) in the ceiling [...]

Flushed with Excitement! New toilet installed

   old 11 litre water guzzler             Finally after nearly a month of waiting the plumber came today to install the new toilet. Banished forever to probably the herb garden the water guzzling 11 litre single flush, leaky cistern and in its place a 3 star 3litre/6 litre dual flush [...]