This is exactly what I've been saying we're needing for years, what we need next is academies training people to build these homes that are publicly owned & run not for profit with affordable rents. It's time to rebuild broken Britain from the ground up.
Agreed, well, for the most part. It is unlikely there would be any traction if there is no money to be made. However, the rest is a sound as a brick house 😁 As much as I wish our government would build again, I can see a future whereby the building firms themselves offer rent-to-buy schemes for a large percentage of the properties they construct. This would increase the gains made by the firms themselves - by cutting out the additional gains made on each property though finance - and offer them a rolling injection of funds each month to encourage more construction. This is just as easy a model for banks themselves to pursue - just as Loyds Bank is currently in the process of. 🧐🤔🙏☺️
Publicly owned and run? That might be the communist dream, but most people want to _own_ their own home, as it will become a large appreciating asset to pass on to their children. Nobody should ever be encouraged or directed towards paying dead rent money to the state for a state-specified minimum-quality box. The idea of the box builders offering the finance themselves is an obvious way for them to make their profit.
@@origin178 historically most homes in the uk have been publicly run by the government, specially in urban zones. most people never had the money to build their own house so historically rent has been about the only way for a average person to have a roof over their head. And since world war 2 they had to rebuild most of England with government money and public housing schemes like council housing. there by making affordable homes from the uk government's public treasury to the people. That was the case for many decades until the government stopped it and offered current residents at the time to buy their homes at a heavy discount since they would be stopping affordable public housing. Since they stopped affordable housing many people simply bought the house they were living in for that discount at a fraction of the market price and processed to resell it for the market price for developers or richer people. Creating in the last decades the housing bubble and the affordable housing crisis in the uk. Because everyone wants profits and the only ones who were making affordable housing at enough quantities was the government.
@@origin178 The reason why there are no houses for those who want the 30 year milestone around their necks & pay back more than 3 times they borrow over that period is because all the public housing stock has been sold off & been bought up by greedy landlords & the houses we were promised to replace them have never been built, this keeps those who do want a mortgage stuck in extortionately high rent properties unable to save for the deposit, if we end all buy to let mortgages & introduce rent caps it will free up the market for first time buyers buy giving them the opportunity to save for the deposit. Houses should be homes not cash cows for the greedy to use to bleed everyone else dry. IMO all homes should have to be owner occupied for a minimum of 9 months of the year.
Experts on the Passive House standard have assessed the Future Homes Standard and found it to fall well short of the Passive House benchmark in terms of energy efficiency. Modelling across a range of building forms shows the energy consumption of homes built to the FHS falls in the range 40-50 kWh m-2 y-1 compared with 15 kWh m-2 y-1 for passive house. See the AECB lecture by Qoda entitled “Part L and Future Homes Standard” on TH-cam.
I worked for an architect/site manager, who got me to remove an old chimney, after the plasterer had placed the insulation between the beams. They had unrolled 60cm wide rolls of rock wool, between beams with gaps varying from 55cm to 70cm, without cutting or filling the gaps. It was partly financed by the gouvernement to help reduce energy use.
I fully agree. My builder was doing a pretty poor job of finishing insulation properly. He is now off the job and I am removing much of it to refit properly.
@@robinhood4640I was told that our house had cavity insulation done. Checked when we had a new window fitted and indeed, you can see that some shredded glass wool has been injected in the cavity. But it’s been so poorly done, and you can tell that not enough was injected that it makes you wonder: what is this stupid patchy technique achieving in terms of actual insulation, since there are gaps everywhere with no wool present…😅
It would be good if Salford could incorporate these types of building faults in a test house, and some others such as cold bridges, poorly sealed floors, window frames, door frames, and so on, quantify their effects and come up with tested remedial actions to help upgrade the existing stock effectively, providing costs/benefits v current costs and action templates for owners of buildings with these faults
I am glad you are focussing on retrofitting old homes. My family and I lived in a brick terraced end row house in 1993 in Chester, England. It was cold so we would all gather in the front TV room and blast the natural gas heater. Here in Canada, I recently bought an old two story 1912 character home. It was a natural gas energy hog. So we gutted it completely and installed triple pane windows along with 3" of foam insulation in the exterior walls. The comfort level, costs and emissions are night and day. We heat with electricity during the fall and spring and a tiny wood stove during the winter when it was -36C outside! High insulation upgrades are worth their weight in gold.
Thank you for the feature guys! Energy House 2.0 has been an amazing project to be involved with and really pushes ThermaSkirt forward as the alternative to radiators 🎉
The skirting board and architrave heating system is pure genius 🤯 The kind of thing you wish you had thought of yourself... A bit like the suitcases with wheels 🤔 😅
Skirting panel heating has been around since I started in the heating business and that’s 59 years ago. What’s new here is like cars it’s better made and looks better.
@@wobby1516 @hughM9 😯Wow, I have never come across it here in the UK. I have seen pipes both in front and above skirting, just not incorporated into the skirts and architraves. Seems odd we haven't pursued this more... Hindsight is a wonderful thing though I guess and at least we are marching forward with this age-old tech, reinvented. 🫠
@@dandantheideasmanI looked into it about 8 or 9 yrs ago (had all electric night storage with solar PV) but couldn't afford it we ended up qualifying for grant for standard GCH was a bit gutted to say the least wasn't something alternative we tried & boiled down to cost & getting house/family warm/healthier to combat mould.
It's a great idea, as with the passive house amd herschel episodes, until legislation mandates these things and changes it's antequated EPC criteria then the home builders won't add these things.
it will be interesting to see if Bellway and Barratt (both mentioned in this video) do start building these 'homes of the future'. They are both building new homes near me. Not a solar panel in sight. No EV chargers. Still heated with a crappy gas boiler. Minimum insulation they can get away with. Is this more greenwashing or are they genuinely going to build 'homes of the future'?
@@DavidKnowles0it's just a shame how much time and how many homes can be built before the governments get their thumbs out. I am a Yank and it seems that you, the British have us beat.
I have been told that the problem is that new builds go through planning up to five years prior to actual construction and then a site (depending on size) can take five - ten years to complete. So most new builds have 2015 approval standards not 2024. When asked about changing/upgrading the planning again I am told that the time taken would require most sites to be closed down foe about 18 mouths, not financially viable. Gaining or updating planning can be a nightmare apparently.
Really appreciate the episodes on energy efficiency related to the home, and things that work towards sustainability. Would like to see how such improvements are being approached in different countries like Norway/Finland, France/Germany, or Spain/Italy. Each region has different climates and different cultures, so have unique spin on how to improve. Think there is much to be learnt from considering alternatives and learning from each other.
I have built several houses in the Artic Circle in Canada and Norway. They used SIPs with protective boards on the outer shell then timber cladding. 2 of them used HRVS with heating units in the system. They were all extremely airtight. The thing you have to learn is to build quick as the summer doesn't last long. Some of the Canadians worked on the hotel in Longyearbyn. Forget Passiv house it doesn't work at -20c
Maybe passive house is too tuff (I live in Norway) but we can still improve. My house was built 20 years ago and many of the upgrades the builders refused to do based on Norwegian standards. Probably I could have argued with them more. But I let it happen. That is sad now as I’m paying the price for double glazing - not triple. Too little insulation. So lost energy, and not airtight, or even close. Perfect is not necessary - much better is! I hope everything electric will run a series on simple upgrades to help everyone.
I agree. It is difficult upgrading.. secondary glazing on top of double glazing may help. Building a vestibule inside or a small porch outside as an airlock helped with a building in the North East of Scotland.@@milesbuckhurst504
Don't mind which projects are featured, feature them all, please! They're ALL important and useful to learn about. How about we start with an episode on Project 1?
Great episode. It would be great to hear about more innovative ways to retrofit insulation to old UK housing stock. E.g. what to do with a 1960s house: new windows, roof and cavity wall insulation are obvious. What about a solid concrete ground floor?
But without the internet Apps side of things .. it's a liability that's already showing cracks and hidden expenses that get worse as time goes bye. 🧙🏼♂️🤦🏻
Another well produced episode from Imogen - thank you. I’d like an episode that explained the cost/effectiveness of alternative domestic heating solutions: air source heat pumps vs infrared vs other technologies. Also the likely cost effectiveness of different insulation techniques. 🙏
As a Swede I have lived in UK (Manchester area) for 4 years between 17 and 21. When it comes to energy efficiency and how to build (have not seen a properly built house anywhere in UK by Swedish standards) just come to the Nordic and build like we do. 232 m2 (I know you are measuring size of house by #rooms, but we actually measure size 😂) consumes 1/3 of energy of our UK home (150 m2 approx). And that is in a country that is actually cold. ❄ Just come here and copy, you don't need airplane hangars of cool air.. 😉
Australian here. I spent 1 year in Denmark in 1998. I was never, ever cold inside, despite the snow and ice outside. Danish building standards are really good. Even old houses and housing for low-income earners was very well-insulated. Despite our relatively mild winters in comparison in southern Australia (Melbourne), our houses are so poorly insulated that unless you have the heating switched on 24/7, you really feel the cold, even though you are inside. This goes for houses, as well as schools and many other public buildings.
i like the sound of those vector homes, do an episode on them please. I had a quick look at their website....not a whole lot of info yet, but interesting none the less, really appeals to me as i approach 50
Totally agree, has always seemed a much more sensible site for a (safe!) heat source than big, pretty ugly, radiators under windows or potentially stuck behind furniture
Thanks Imogen, loved the bloopers, more please. I'd like to know more about infrared as a complete heat source package. Is it really possible with smart controllers to make it come close to break even in running costs with gas? ASHP's are great but it would just be too much upheaval and expense to contemplate so infrared ceiling panels are our next best option. If you could do a programme on them from a users perspective not the sellers that would be great. 👍
I live in a 1950s ex council house that I have already improved with a better front door, insulation in the attic and modern radiators, so I am definitely interested in the improvements that can be made to an older house. I have solar panels and a home energy battery, but right now cannot afford (even with the grant) a heat pump.
Agree. I tried to do it on my 12 year old boiler but couldn't because it already incorporated automatic temperature regulation which did the same thing but dynamically. I thought it was a typical bit of government advice: oversimplified, out of date and without cost to the government. Let's hope with more analysis House 1 can produce more significant proposals for updating our existing houses.
Are UK houses inefficient? We live in Vienna, in a 40+ yo house with 4 beds and 2.5 bathrooms. Admittedly, we don’t like a particularly hot and stuffy house, but in the winter, we barely use the heating and in the summer, other than those rooms that get a lot of sunlight, the insulation does a very good job of keeping the house cool. We have district heating and hot water , produced by burning garbage (not including paper of plastic). More recently built properties have even better insulation and the City of Vienna encourages alternative energy sources. We have double glazing, but many of the newer properties being built have triple glazing. The city is also subsidising passive cooling, such as window shutters. The UK has a lot of catching up to do.
cool video, I'd look a more scientific look into the value each modification provides e.g. add triple paned glass to the old house and see the % increase in insulation etc.
Problem is since we liberalised building control, how do we know Barrett etc are actually building homes to the right standard, the better performing a building the more important the details, details that are hard to verify after construction.
Great to see all these new technologies and techniques being tested to rigorous scientific standards. Has to be a help in avoiding the perils of greenwash ...
They might be new for England as it’s so far behind. When the media first showed these houses I was very interested. However when I checked further they’re actually no more efficient than a house I built in 2008. It uses German design & components.
“In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).
If the Government helped improve the housing for the poorest people, they would not need to be given more money every year. Solar would reduce bills as well as helping the grid, insulation will keep homes warmer and save money on heating. If we finally remove the link of gas from our electricity, we may see lower prices and a move to ASHP's would work, to save more money as well as help the environment. This could be funded by properly taxing the oil companies instead of paying them A win win.
If ice melt causes liqufaction throughout the earths crust, will this increase quaks? If so will buildings be able to ride out that movement? Looking to far ahead. I am thinking Dome Crawlers may be a feasable solution.
Future Homes standard - zero carbon homes - by 2025. Great, except for the fact that we had this before - requirement for all new homes to be Code 6 by 2016 - zero net carbon homes - 15 years ago and it was scrapped by Tory Govt. following intense pressure from UK house builders. So the obvious question is that why will the Future Homes Standard not fall by the wayside in exactly the same way as Code 6? A very optimistic video but the reality will be very disappointing. UK House Builders have no intention of changing the way they build homes, they will ensure that the Future Homes Standard will be nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig
Not actually zero carbon homes, ready to be zero carbon home, aka they will have to be retrofitted to be zero carbon at some point in the future. The construction industry will leave out as much of the technology to make these home zero carbon as they can get away with. I suspect they will be the house with just the require pipe work and insulation for a heat pump but no heat pump, the wiring for a car charger but no car charger, the roof will be signed of as being able to support solar panels but no actual solar panels will be fitted. There will be a location for battery but no actual battery.
These houses and technology don't seem to add anything over what is already mainstream in mainland Europe. Is the purpose of this facility to develop these construction skills in the UK more than actually breaking new ground technologically?
How do energy and transport professionals go for free on the first day of harrogate, your website has absolutely zero information or links on how to get tickets?
Whilst all these innovations are great, if as most people do one lives in an old house it’s very costly to apply the energy saving green ideas. For example I’ve fitted solar panels £12000 battery storage £8000 and possibly a heat pump £12000 - £15000. Not many people especially younger ones have that sort of cast lying about after paying their mortgage ect. I can see a future where old houses will start to loose value when in 10 years time or less people will buy new builds rather than have the expense of old properties where they have to upgrade them or pay high energy prices.
Solar panels should have beem mandatory for years on all new builds, but the greedy developers are too intent on cramming as many boxes as possible into the available land, maximising profits and giving children no garden to play in. Access roads stay unfinished for years after all the boxes are filled with families. Most of the "garages" are just a cheap way to not finish a room, because you can't fit any modern car in the decades-old standard garage dimension. I think it all went wrong in the 1980s? It's great if the new boxes are going to be super-efficient, but the lived experience of a big-developer 's crowded Boxville estate won't improve.
Absolutely, builders have meet energy efficiency requirements and if they fall short they can add solar panels to meet the requirement. But they just add the absolute minimum very often one or two panels on a roof where there is space for 16. A large part of the cost is just running the cables, paperwork and roof work which are the same regardless of number of panels. The cost of the extra panels is minimal compared to the savings that occupants would make year after year. The uk is just the nastiest cheapest chap they can get away with
This is exactly what I've been saying we're needing for years, what we need next is academies training people to build these homes that are publicly owned & run not for profit with affordable rents. It's time to rebuild broken Britain from the ground up.
Agreed, well, for the most part. It is unlikely there would be any traction if there is no money to be made.
However, the rest is a sound as a brick house 😁
As much as I wish our government would build again, I can see a future whereby the building firms themselves offer rent-to-buy schemes for a large percentage of the properties they construct.
This would increase the gains made by the firms themselves - by cutting out the additional gains made on each property though finance - and offer them a rolling injection of funds each month to encourage more construction.
This is just as easy a model for banks themselves to pursue - just as Loyds Bank is currently in the process of. 🧐🤔🙏☺️
Publicly owned and run? That might be the communist dream, but most people want to _own_ their own home, as it will become a large appreciating asset to pass on to their children. Nobody should ever be encouraged or directed towards paying dead rent money to the state for a state-specified minimum-quality box. The idea of the box builders offering the finance themselves is an obvious way for them to make their profit.
@@origin178 historically most homes in the uk have been publicly run by the government, specially in urban zones.
most people never had the money to build their own house so historically rent has been about the only way for a average person to have a roof over their head.
And since world war 2 they had to rebuild most of England with government money and public housing schemes like council housing.
there by making affordable homes from the uk government's public treasury to the people.
That was the case for many decades until the government stopped it and offered current residents at the time to buy their homes at a heavy discount since they would be stopping affordable public housing.
Since they stopped affordable housing many people simply bought the house they were living in for that discount at a fraction of the market price and processed to resell it for the market price for developers or richer people.
Creating in the last decades the housing bubble and the affordable housing crisis in the uk.
Because everyone wants profits and the only ones who were making affordable housing at enough quantities was the government.
@@origin178 The reason why there are no houses for those who want the 30 year milestone around their necks & pay back more than 3 times they borrow over that period is because all the public housing stock has been sold off & been bought up by greedy landlords & the houses we were promised to replace them have never been built, this keeps those who do want a mortgage stuck in extortionately high rent properties unable to save for the deposit, if we end all buy to let mortgages & introduce rent caps it will free up the market for first time buyers buy giving them the opportunity to save for the deposit. Houses should be homes not cash cows for the greedy to use to bleed everyone else dry. IMO all homes should have to be owner occupied for a minimum of 9 months of the year.
Experts on the Passive House standard have assessed the Future Homes Standard and found it to fall well short of the Passive House benchmark in terms of energy efficiency. Modelling across a range of building forms shows the energy consumption of homes built to the FHS falls in the range 40-50 kWh m-2 y-1 compared with 15 kWh m-2 y-1 for passive house. See the AECB lecture by Qoda entitled “Part L and Future Homes Standard” on TH-cam.
One off test homes are all well and good but it all comes down to the quality of contractors that actually do the building in the real world.
I worked for an architect/site manager, who got me to remove an old chimney, after the plasterer had placed the insulation between the beams. They had unrolled 60cm wide rolls of rock wool, between beams with gaps varying from 55cm to 70cm, without cutting or filling the gaps.
It was partly financed by the gouvernement to help reduce energy use.
I fully agree. My builder was doing a pretty poor job of finishing insulation properly. He is now off the job and I am removing much of it to refit properly.
So the ones certified good will clean up. They'd need to qualify for the new tech.
@@robinhood4640I was told that our house had cavity insulation done. Checked when we had a new window fitted and indeed, you can see that some shredded glass wool has been injected in the cavity. But it’s been so poorly done, and you can tell that not enough was injected that it makes you wonder: what is this stupid patchy technique achieving in terms of actual insulation, since there are gaps everywhere with no wool present…😅
It would be good if Salford could incorporate these types of building faults in a test house, and some others such as cold bridges, poorly sealed floors, window frames, door frames, and so on, quantify their effects and come up with tested remedial actions to help upgrade the existing stock effectively, providing costs/benefits v current costs and action templates for owners of buildings with these faults
I am glad you are focussing on retrofitting old homes. My family and I lived in a brick terraced end row house in 1993 in Chester, England. It was cold so we would all gather in the front TV room and blast the natural gas heater. Here in Canada, I recently bought an old two story 1912 character home. It was a natural gas energy hog. So we gutted it completely and installed triple pane windows along with 3" of foam insulation in the exterior walls. The comfort level, costs and emissions are night and day. We heat with electricity during the fall and spring and a tiny wood stove during the winter when it was -36C outside! High insulation upgrades are worth their weight in gold.
Thank you for the feature guys! Energy House 2.0 has been an amazing project to be involved with and really pushes ThermaSkirt forward as the alternative to radiators
🎉
The skirting board and architrave heating system is pure genius 🤯
The kind of thing you wish you had thought of yourself...
A bit like the suitcases with wheels 🤔 😅
And been around for years. 😉
Skirting panel heating has been around since I started in the heating business and that’s 59 years ago. What’s new here is like cars it’s better made and looks better.
@@wobby1516 @hughM9 😯Wow, I have never come across it here in the UK. I have seen pipes both in front and above skirting, just not incorporated into the skirts and architraves.
Seems odd we haven't pursued this more...
Hindsight is a wonderful thing though I guess and at least we are marching forward with this age-old tech, reinvented. 🫠
@@dandantheideasmanI looked into it about 8 or 9 yrs ago (had all electric night storage with solar PV) but couldn't afford it we ended up qualifying for grant for standard GCH was a bit gutted to say the least wasn't something alternative we tried & boiled down to cost & getting house/family warm/healthier to combat mould.
It's a great idea, as with the passive house amd herschel episodes, until legislation mandates these things and changes it's antequated EPC criteria then the home builders won't add these things.
it will be interesting to see if Bellway and Barratt (both mentioned in this video) do start building these 'homes of the future'.
They are both building new homes near me. Not a solar panel in sight. No EV chargers. Still heated with a crappy gas boiler. Minimum insulation they can get away with.
Is this more greenwashing or are they genuinely going to build 'homes of the future'?
In light of your comments you have to ask?
Hopefully they won't have a choice. But we need to elect the right government to make sure it happens.
@@DavidKnowles0it's just a shame how much time and how many homes can be built before the governments get their thumbs out.
I am a Yank and it seems that you, the British have us beat.
I have been told that the problem is that new builds go through planning up to five years prior to actual construction and then a site (depending on size) can take five - ten years to complete. So most new builds have 2015 approval standards not 2024. When asked about changing/upgrading the planning again I am told that the time taken would require most sites to be closed down foe about 18 mouths, not financially viable. Gaining or updating planning can be a nightmare apparently.
Really appreciate the episodes on energy efficiency related to the home, and things that work towards sustainability.
Would like to see how such improvements are being approached in different countries like Norway/Finland, France/Germany, or Spain/Italy. Each region has different climates and different cultures, so have unique spin on how to improve. Think there is much to be learnt from considering alternatives and learning from each other.
I have built several houses in the Artic Circle in Canada and Norway. They used SIPs with protective boards on the outer shell then timber cladding. 2 of them used HRVS with heating units in the system. They were all extremely airtight. The thing you have to learn is to build quick as the summer doesn't last long. Some of the Canadians worked on the hotel in Longyearbyn. Forget Passiv house it doesn't work at -20c
*Arctic Circle 🤔
Maybe passive house is too tuff (I live in Norway) but we can still improve. My house was built 20 years ago and many of the upgrades the builders refused to do based on Norwegian standards. Probably I could have argued with them more. But I let it happen. That is sad now as I’m paying the price for double glazing - not triple. Too little insulation. So lost energy, and not airtight, or even close. Perfect is not necessary - much better is!
I hope everything electric will run a series on simple upgrades to help everyone.
I agree. It is difficult upgrading.. secondary glazing on top of double glazing may help. Building a vestibule inside or a small porch outside as an airlock helped with a building in the North East of Scotland.@@milesbuckhurst504
Don't mind which projects are featured, feature them all, please! They're ALL important and useful to learn about. How about we start with an episode on Project 1?
Great episode. It would be great to hear about more innovative ways to retrofit insulation to old UK housing stock. E.g. what to do with a 1960s house: new windows, roof and cavity wall insulation are obvious. What about a solid concrete ground floor?
Need to see more eco houses.
But without the internet Apps side of things .. it's a liability that's already showing cracks and hidden expenses that get worse as time goes bye. 🧙🏼♂️🤦🏻
Another well produced episode from Imogen - thank you. I’d like an episode that explained the cost/effectiveness of alternative domestic heating solutions: air source heat pumps vs infrared vs other technologies. Also the likely cost effectiveness of different insulation techniques. 🙏
As a Swede I have lived in UK (Manchester area) for 4 years between 17 and 21. When it comes to energy efficiency and how to build (have not seen a properly built house anywhere in UK by Swedish standards) just come to the Nordic and build like we do.
232 m2 (I know you are measuring size of house by #rooms, but we actually measure size 😂) consumes 1/3 of energy of our UK home (150 m2 approx). And that is in a country that is actually cold. ❄
Just come here and copy, you don't need airplane hangars of cool air.. 😉
Australian here. I spent 1 year in Denmark in 1998. I was never, ever cold inside, despite the snow and ice outside. Danish building standards are really good. Even old houses and housing for low-income earners was very well-insulated. Despite our relatively mild winters in comparison in southern Australia (Melbourne), our houses are so poorly insulated that unless you have the heating switched on 24/7, you really feel the cold, even though you are inside. This goes for houses, as well as schools and many other public buildings.
i like the sound of those vector homes, do an episode on them please. I had a quick look at their website....not a whole lot of info yet, but interesting none the less, really appeals to me as i approach 50
& me if actually properly disabled accessible (massively in short supply) but also need 3 bedroom bungalows they forget about families often.
I would be really interested in learning about technologies to retrofit existing houses.
Quite likes the bloopers at the end. Nice change. 😊
Great episode and great to see Loxone getting a mention, this is best and most versatile home automation and energy management system on the planet!
Would love to see something on the radient skirting board
Totally agree, has always seemed a much more sensible site for a (safe!) heat source than big, pretty ugly, radiators under windows or potentially stuck behind furniture
This is an *EXCELLENT* episode!!!
Excellent video. If the testing facility could test up to 50 C then they would cover Australia summer conditions as well.
These updates are really interesting thanks
I have been enjoyed, so thank you for delivering.
Thanks Imogen, loved the bloopers, more please. I'd like to know more about infrared as a complete heat source package. Is it really possible with smart controllers to make it come close to break even in running costs with gas? ASHP's are great but it would just be too much upheaval and expense to contemplate so infrared ceiling panels are our next best option. If you could do a programme on them from a users perspective not the sellers that would be great. 👍
I live in a 1950s ex council house that I have already improved with a better front door, insulation in the attic and modern radiators, so I am definitely interested in the improvements that can be made to an older house. I have solar panels and a home energy battery, but right now cannot afford (even with the grant) a heat pump.
If you can financially: windows, floor insulation, and importantly: insulated walls but on the outside plus new rendering on top.
It would have been to see more energy house project 1 the retrofit house for ideas other than turn down the boiler
Agree. I tried to do it on my 12 year old boiler but couldn't because it already incorporated automatic temperature regulation which did the same thing but dynamically. I thought it was a typical bit of government advice: oversimplified, out of date and without cost to the government. Let's hope with more analysis House 1 can produce more significant proposals for updating our existing houses.
Thank you.
I'd like to see more focus on water efficiency and alternate sourcing.
Are UK houses inefficient? We live in Vienna, in a 40+ yo house with 4 beds and 2.5 bathrooms. Admittedly, we don’t like a particularly hot and stuffy house, but in the winter, we barely use the heating and in the summer, other than those rooms that get a lot of sunlight, the insulation does a very good job of keeping the house cool. We have district heating and hot water , produced by burning garbage (not including paper of plastic). More recently built properties have even better insulation and the City of Vienna encourages alternative energy sources. We have double glazing, but many of the newer properties being built have triple glazing. The city is also subsidising passive cooling, such as window shutters.
The UK has a lot of catching up to do.
Thanks
A wise government would have a program to retrofit low income residences with insulative and energy wise remodeling.
An use this to boost capacity to develop and manufacture the technology in this country.
@@DavidKnowles0 Yes, it would definitely boost the economy.
And the last time the UK had a wise government was... Danelaw?
cool video, I'd look a more scientific look into the value each modification provides e.g. add triple paned glass to the old house and see the % increase in insulation etc.
Problem is since we liberalised building control, how do we know Barrett etc are actually building homes to the right standard, the better performing a building the more important the details, details that are hard to verify after construction.
Great to see all these new technologies and techniques being tested to rigorous scientific standards. Has to be a help in avoiding the perils of greenwash ...
They might be new for England as it’s so far behind.
When the media first showed these houses I was very interested.
However when I checked further they’re actually no more efficient than a house I built in 2008.
It uses German design & components.
Imogen presenting. I’m watching. 👍
“In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).
Maybe visit a factory that makes 3-pane or 4-pane windows? Walls can be insulated but windows are a bit of a weak spot.
Energy companies mitigate many energy savings by loading the costs on to standing charges.
It's not the energy companies who control the standing charge..
Who controls it then?
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If the Government helped improve the housing for the poorest people, they would not need to be given more money every year. Solar would reduce bills as well as helping the grid, insulation will keep homes warmer and save money on heating. If we finally remove the link of gas from our electricity, we may see lower prices and a move to ASHP's would work, to save more money as well as help the environment. This could be funded by properly taxing the oil companies instead of paying them A win win.
Any suggestions on older house upgrades. I'm in a 200 year old solid stone property with no attic. We do have double glazing at least.
If ice melt causes liqufaction throughout the earths crust, will this increase quaks? If so will buildings be able to ride out that movement? Looking to far ahead. I am thinking Dome Crawlers may be a feasable solution.
Why just zero carbon ready, why not just zero carbon homes?
Future Homes standard - zero carbon homes - by 2025. Great, except for the fact that we had this before - requirement for all new homes to be Code 6 by 2016 - zero net carbon homes - 15 years ago and it was scrapped by Tory Govt. following intense pressure from UK house builders.
So the obvious question is that why will the Future Homes Standard not fall by the wayside in exactly the same way as Code 6?
A very optimistic video but the reality will be very disappointing. UK House Builders have no intention of changing the way they build homes, they will ensure that the Future Homes Standard will be nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig
Not actually zero carbon homes, ready to be zero carbon home, aka they will have to be retrofitted to be zero carbon at some point in the future. The construction industry will leave out as much of the technology to make these home zero carbon as they can get away with. I suspect they will be the house with just the require pipe work and insulation for a heat pump but no heat pump, the wiring for a car charger but no car charger, the roof will be signed of as being able to support solar panels but no actual solar panels will be fitted. There will be a location for battery but no actual battery.
These houses and technology don't seem to add anything over what is already mainstream in mainland Europe.
Is the purpose of this facility to develop these construction skills in the UK more than actually breaking new ground technologically?
A professor should be saying “we are standing” instead of “we we are stood “ 😮
Lightweight steel, tell me more
How do energy and transport professionals go for free on the first day of harrogate, your website has absolutely zero information or links on how to get tickets?
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Love the clip that shows a heat pump and a gas meter box together. Does that mean the gas is on stand by when the heat pump breaks or fails to work.
Whilst all these innovations are great, if as most people do one lives in an old house it’s very costly to apply the energy saving green ideas. For example I’ve fitted solar panels £12000 battery storage £8000 and possibly a heat pump £12000 - £15000. Not many people especially younger ones have that sort of cast lying about after paying their mortgage ect. I can see a future where old houses will start to loose value when in 10 years time or less people will buy new builds rather than have the expense of old properties where they have to upgrade them or pay high energy prices.
I'm guessing they're not testing solar passive houses in there?
Solar panels should have beem mandatory for years on all new builds, but the greedy developers are too intent on cramming as many boxes as possible into the available land, maximising profits and giving children no garden to play in. Access roads stay unfinished for years after all the boxes are filled with families. Most of the "garages" are just a cheap way to not finish a room, because you can't fit any modern car in the decades-old standard garage dimension. I think it all went wrong in the 1980s? It's great if the new boxes are going to be super-efficient, but the lived experience of a big-developer 's crowded Boxville estate won't improve.
Absolutely, builders have meet energy efficiency requirements and if they fall short they can add solar panels to meet the requirement. But they just add the absolute minimum very often one or two panels on a roof where there is space for 16. A large part of the cost is just running the cables, paperwork and roof work which are the same regardless of number of panels. The cost of the extra panels is minimal compared to the savings that occupants would make year after year.
The uk is just the nastiest cheapest chap they can get away with
A lot of modern houses are inferior to old houses in many ways.
Kindly explain your thinking.
Who makes houses to last 100 years anymore?
aagghh Its 2.ZERO - its a number not a letter
Music far too loud! (And annoying.)