In last week’s YouTube Episode about the Energy Retrofit of the old cottage next to the Greeny Flat we were making our way around to the North wall of the house where replacing the windows and installing the new cladding is getting a bit more complicated. For one thing, in this part of the building […]

In last week’s Newsletter I mentioned that Repower‘s fourth investment round was due to open on Monday this week. Well… not only did it open on Monday at 3pm but it was completely filled by Wednesday at 9am. It only took 42 hours to raise the required $139,600 in local, ethical, community investments to fund […]

This week we present Episode 5 in our series of short videos about the Energy Retrofit of the old fibro cottage next to the Greeny Flat. In this episode we are replacing the old single-glazed, double-hung, wood windows with new double-glazed, aluminium, casement windows. It would be nice to use thermally-broken aluminium frames but I […]

This week we present Episode 4 in our ongoing series of short videos on the Energy Retrofit of the old cottage next to the Greeny Flat. In last week’s video we were dealing with the ventilation of the under-floor area. This week we focus on relining the eaves and ventilating the attic. Ironically, in a […]

Insulating and sarking the exterior walls of the old house next to the Greeny Flat

In last week’s Newsletter we presented Episode 1 of a series of YouTube videos documenting the process of renovating the old house next to the Greeny Flat. This week, in Episode 2 we continue with insulating and sarking […]