Our focus over the last week or so has been getting the biomass boiler up and running, with help from local ecological heating suppliers A Greener Alternative. The Baufritz team have been working on getting the floors ready for the liquid screed pour. The boiler is now providing hot water in the underfloor heating so the liquid […]
It’s flaming June (supposedly) and our ‘solar garden’ is now hooked up to the grid and generating green energy. This is something to celebrate today, particularly as it happens to be ‘Sussex Day‘. We have 32 PV panels ground-mounted in the front garden at Sky House Sussex…but why on earth there, you may ask? Isn’t […]
Our project manager Joe Eriksson and his team are working fast this week to complete the construction of our new garage which includes a storage area for our new biomass boiler, arriving on Monday. Joe’s Scandinavian house-building expertise means Bertha (the biomass boiler) will be housed in a fine timber frame building to the left […]
To mark Earth Hour on Sat 29th March 2014 when millions of people across the world will switch off lights for an hour at 8.30pm local time in a massive show of concern for the environment, we wanted to tell our followers that Sky House Sussex will be using an innovative lighting control system, Lutron, to save […]
Did you know that over three million people watch Grand Designs, 100,000 subscribe to websites announcing available plots of land, and a similar number buy self-build magazines?* Or that by contrast, just 12,000 self-build homes are completed in the UK each year – or 7.6 per cent of new housing supply?** Reading these figures, we’re well […]
Do your energy bills have you waking up in a cold sweat? Do you ever wish you could see which appliances chew up the most energy and how to reduce wasteful consumption? At Sky House Sussex, we want to promote greener living. So we’ve been discussing installing energy monitors throughout the building – and this […]
The interminable delays to get the utilities disconnected before demolition were enough to send anyone barking mad. Why does it seem the left hand never communicates with the right at the big utility companies? We spent hours and hours on the telephone trying to explain our requirements for temporary builders supply of electricity and disconnection […]
Before demolition of the old bungalow takes place, we will need to remove the 32 photovoltaic solar panels (generating 8kw of electricity) from the roof and store them safely until they can be re-installed next year on the roof of Sky House Sussex. To find out whether we can maintain our Feed In Tariff to the National Grid […]