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 […]
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 […]
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 […]