i am building an ECO house in Wiltshire - self build

Welcome!

 

'Hands dirty' self-build? (Are you both 'commissioner' and principal contractor?)

22 minutes ago, IDM said:

i am building an ECO house in Wiltshire - self build

 

Hello and welcome. What does "Eco House" mean to you?

 

Mine's a low energy home built with a tilt towards a low carbon foot-print, but I never think of it as an "Eco Home". But then a locally development is calling their Building Regs houses "Eco" because they've installed UFH and an ASHP. 

28 minutes ago, IanR said:

 

Hello and welcome. What does "Eco House" mean to you?

 

Mine's a low energy home built with a tilt towards a low carbon foot-print, but I never think of it as an "Eco Home". But then a locally development is calling their Building Regs houses "Eco" because they've installed UFH and an ASHP. 

OMG, really.  I suppose that if people are that gullible but in reality it is about time that volume builders were bought to task over their claims.

It’s mostly green washing by the bigger builders. Scratch beneath the surface of their eco and sustainability claims and it’s mostly garbage. 

All the worthy terms get stolen and abused by the developers.

My main hate is " value engineering". It used to mean elegant,  efficient construction.

Then the QS industry turned it into missing things out and  cutting corners.

So I don't use the term any longer.

 

My own prejudjce on "eco" is of experimental houses, spending other people's money on nth degree of detail and anything trendy.

Wind turbines, ground source, off-site, green roofs, solar regardless of circumstances.