Hi,
I have been lurking on this site for tooooo long. And wish to thank the very large impressive list of posters who have helped me in my research.
I am still in the foothills of knowledge and am continually struck about how little I understand and how complicated things are.
Our project, yet to start but in serious engagement stage, is a large terraced Victorian house that is in need of serious care & attention and upgrade for eneregy efficiency as well as comfort and joy!
I say Enerphitish as I am not sure how far to push the envelope (pun intended) giving costs and return.
I know we will not recoup all our project costs if we were to sell, so am writing off a large chuck as sunk costs, but it is our forever house and we want to enjoy it to the max.
Size is about 300m2 and my guess is that we (2 adults (we gave up trying to down size)) currently consume about 110 kWh/m2 based on sketchy gas & electric fuel bills.
So plan is to insulate & make airtightish, and include ASHP along with Solar PV (as much as I can). So one of the early hills will be addressing the debate about how to tackle DWH.
I am a contrarian by birth so do not trust anything the "governement" say ... so anticipate fuel inflation ........ new iceage... plague of locusts, etc. And really want to reduce our consumption of carbon as I believe in the reality of global warming ... now being played out in real time.
So apologies in advance for many daft questions to come ... but will have attempted to have scoured your posts before putting character to screen.
