How do you flip a interval home into an eco-home with out damaging the traits that make it particular — authentic sash home windows, open fireplaces, leaky previous floorboards? Few individuals respect this dilemma greater than Sarah Freeman, 33, an inspector of buildings for Historic England, and her husband, George Simms, 40, a neighborhood authorities retrofit specialist. They’re additionally the proud house owners of a red-brick, three-bedroom terraced home inbuilt about 1900 in Bournville, Birmingham. They’ve simply completed a low-carbon retrofit of the entire home to cut back power consumption dramatically whereas on the identical time including a small timber facet extension to create a backyard room.
“Outdated homes are sometimes considered negatively when it comes to power consumption however there’s rather a lot you are able to do to