Long time…!

Can’t believe it’s been 6 months since our last blog post. Then again, quite a lot happened in that time, not least that our daughter has arrived (most important, of course) and we’ve moved into this amazing house. The former (pics above) happened in September and we became the first family to be living in a passivhaus retrofit in the UK in October.

To be completely accurate, we haven’t had certification yet, but we’re quite confident about that side of things; but touching wood nonetheless. And, more importantly, as far as my wife is concerned, we didn’t have (m)any curtains or pretty pictures until recently, so that hardly constitutes a finished house…

Anyway, to the bit that really matters - the house is brilliant. It’s absolutely everything we had hoped for. It has a perfect, balanced temperature throughout (even during the ridiculous cold snap despite at that point missing two windows), the air is fresh, it is eerily quiet and best of all, it WORKS! Phew!

I’m sure you’re all chomping at the bit to hear about our successful airtightness test, incredible triple-glazed sash windows, fully-functioning cellar heat exchange, sweet little pv system, upcoming living roof installation, gorgeous low energy lighting, fortress-like front door, oooh so many juicy bits…but I’m afraid you’ll have to wait because it’s Saturday night.