Last week, the solar thermal collectors were installed on the roof at Grove Road. These panels transform solar energy into heat energy using Glycol, a frost-protected solar fluid which circulates through the evacuated glass tubes of the collector and into a coil in the hot water cylinder. The new hot water cylinder, a Vaillant AuroSTOR [...]

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The front of the property showing very little insulation in the bay, particularly a very mysterious hot spot just above the window on the ground floor (we suspect this to be a heating pipe coming into close contact with the wall). It is easy to see the location of the radiator in the bay window [...]

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Work has been progressing quickly at Grove Rd; recently the initial layer of insulation has been laid in the attic and the eaves of the property have been extended in order to accommodate the external wall insulation. A large part of the test with this particular retrofit project (and likewise the bere:architects’ Passfield Drive project) [...]

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