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As this blog has outlined before, heat loss from buildings is big problem. Not so much since the means to stop it exiting doesn’t exist, but the difficulties in retro-fitting it and the expense. Another issue is breathability and therefore … Continue reading →

There haven’t been many blog posts recently since I’ve been hard at work on the house! Plus WordPress has been playing up. Something I’ve only partially managed to solve. My big aim has been to fundamentally unequivocally reduce our gas … Continue reading →

Why is petrol so expensive? Why is food so expensive? Why have gas and electricity prices risen so much? Why has inflation been so high? The common link to all these questions is oil. All four conventional energy sources (coal, … Continue reading →

We’re the kind of people who have tended to buy a car and run it into the ground. We’re also the kind of people who buy cars – that if not quite models that no one else want to buy … Continue reading →

Italy by train. Since I won’t fly this seemed the most practical means of my family getting me there! How did it go and what did we learn? Clearly the journey is part of the holiday. I’m not making the … Continue reading →

Wouldn’t it be great if when you live in a part of the country where there are loads of renewables the electricity was cheaper? Or would it? Is this just a chimera? At the moment in the UK we live … Continue reading →

I’ve been vaguely aware of Freecycle but never used it before. I took up our Parquet floor for reasons that will be explained in another post. It came up easily and most of it undamaged. The floor underneath formed of … Continue reading →

Over the summer of 2022 one of our doubling glazing units ‘failed’, the dried air has gradually leaked out of the gap between the sealed panes. The symptoms of this are that moisture appears in the gap and the glass … Continue reading →

In January 2005 I had an infrared survey done of the house by a professional whose day job was decommissioning nuclear power stations.  Last year someone at church did an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) for us.  We were at the … Continue reading →

Stage 1 was to deny it’s existence at all. This was prominent from the 60’s to the 00’s. When the sceptics came up against the science and the overwhelming agreement of the scientific community they had to drop it. Stage … Continue reading →