Category: refurbishment

Floorplans for dummies

Just when you thought Google had an application for just about anything you wanted (you’ve already explored the Earth, then you went to the stars), you find out that they have something to help you re-design your whole flat. I don’t really know how to say this, other than - it’s AMAZING. We’ve been struggling [...]

Getting into hot water

You might wonder why we overhauled the heating system in the first place. After all, you’ve got to figure that leaving things as they are has less of an environmental impact that refurbishing something. Well, this flat had a bit of a bizarre heating system, especially given its size. It had a combi boiler feeding [...]

Why boilers are sexy

OK, so you know you’re obsessed with your refurb when you talk to people about the boilers they’re putting in and get all excited about flow rates and energy ratings. Well, in our place, the choice of boilers came down to this: Volkswagen or Mercedes. I had spent a fair while researching the very best [...]

Low Energy Doll’s House in Trafalgar Sq

Last Tuesday was a little strange. I woke up to a text message from a friend, telling me that he saw me on TV. We had been interviewed for the BBC yesterday, but weren’t expecting it to be on this quickly. Turned out there was a mini clip of us on the BBC London [...]

TV clips… ugh

So I mentioned that we were doing some filming for the Green Homes Concierge Service. It was originally some promotional stuff and then an interview with the BBC yesterday. We get to look daft and ramble on and on.
Here are the links to the clips - let me know what you think:
BBC News (web link [...]