Grosvenor Road, London N10
An Edwardian family home on a corner plot with the following carbon saving features:
- Focus upon maximum insulation where practical plus renewable heat (wood) and hot water (solar)
- Wooden suspended floors with 80mm ‘Thermafleece’ sheeps wool insulation & boarding
- All internal faces of external walls insulated with 10mm ‘Sempatap’ internal wall insulation
- Attic roof insulation of 100mm Kingspan, plasterboard plus 10mm ‘Sempatap’
- Refurbished sash windows with ‘Magneglaze’ secondary glazing on all windows
- Draft reduction through double doors to attic (& letter box!), heavy curtains,
- New condensing boiler, replaced old 15-20 year old boiler. TRVs added.
- Two wood burning stoves (‘Clearview Vision’ in living room heats whole house)
- 2 x 2m2 solar panels for thermal hot water with large well insulated tank (‘AOS Solar’)
- Continuous running low energy heat recovery fan in bathroom (‘Vent Axia – Lo Carbon’)
- Low energy lighting throughout
- Water saving devices include; low flow shower, low flow washers in most taps
- Living wall, pond and vegetables in garden plus pallet shed with green roof
Alexandra Park Road, N22 1930s terraced house which has been retrofitted for improved energy efficiency.
- converted loft has been been insulated on its interior roof
- internal wall insulation added to the front wall
- Sustainable building materials including lime plaster have been used
- Heating is by a modern boiler with weather compensating controls,
- solar thermal panels for hot water
- woodburning stove.
Dukes Avenue, N10 Edwardian terraced house which has undergone a complete refurbishment to exacting green standards
- Internal wall insulation
- loft and roof insulation,
- tanking and cellar insulation.
- Eco-refurbishment with retention of original features, eg stained glass, fireplace, flooring, internal doors.
Yewtree Close, London N10
A timber-framed detached home built in the 1980s with the following carbon saving features:
- Argon filled 12mm double glazing in aluminium frames (except on south side)
- Kingspan “Thermwall”, 100mm rigid, foiled insulation, new ply board with sealed joints
- Celotex GA400 100mm rigid roof insulation with foil backing
- Celotex GA400 100mm rigid floor insulation with foil backing
- New windows and door draught sealed
- Air source heat pumps for underfloor heating and hot water
- 16 photo voltaic panels with total 4kW peak
- New high performance wood burning stove
- 100% LED and some compact fluorescent
- Low energy appliances throughout
- Water saving: 1000ltr rainwater butts
- Instant boiling water (no kettle)
Barrington Road, London N8 
Semi-detached Edwardian villa modernised to include the following features:
- approach based on maximum insulation, water-saving and use of solar electricity and solar hot water
- 50 mm of external insulation to side gable and extension walls
- 55 mm of internal insulation to front and rear bays
- part of loft floor covered with 270 mm Knauf loftroll, remainder has loftroll inserted to top of joists, and then laid with 50 mm of insulated MDF to form load-bearing surface
- front windows and majority of other windows double-glazed
- installation of new Worcester Bosch condensing boiler
- provision of Uponor underfloor heating (wet system) to ground floor
- installation of RainWater Harvesting rainwater catchment system – supplying 2 toilets & washing machine
- dual flush WCs – giving 3.5 litre and 2.6 litre minimum flushes
- 11W LED ceiling lights provided to wet-room
- PV (Solar Electricity) installation of 12 x 235W ET Solar panels = 2.82 kW
- evacuated tube solar water heater – Barilla Solar DeltaSol C Plus
- all timber certificated as sustainable, and recycled plastic covering to bathroom wall
The Meadow Orchard Eco Hut
- Straw Bale wall
- Cob wall
- Reclaimed timber reciprocal roof
- Double and triple glazed windows
- Timber shutters made from re-purposed pallets
- Rammed earth tyres
- Clay plastering
- Lime rendering
- Passive solar design
- Low impact building techniques
- Locally sourced materials
- Cob pizza oven
- Permaculture principles embedded in the design
- Built by volunteers
