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Malc2098 wrote:Way back in the 80s, I had the cavities of my 3 bed semi near High Wycombe filled with rockwool. It was completed on Christmas Eve. The difference was noticeable instantly. The CH thermostat had to be lowered that night.
Malc2098 wrote:Way back in the 80s, I had the cavities of my 3 bed semi near High Wycombe filled with rockwool. It was completed on Christmas Eve. The difference was noticeable instantly. The CH thermostat had to be lowered that night.
Malc2098 wrote:Malc2098 wrote:Way back in the 80s, I had the cavities of my 3 bed semi near High Wycombe filled with rockwool. It was completed on Christmas Eve. The difference was noticeable instantly. The CH thermostat had to be lowered that night.
Take it up with my ex-wife. I just checked with her that we felt a difference that night, and that's what she said.
The house was a late 60s semi. No question, we used the CH much less after it was installed.
Trevanion wrote:it would be a shame for someone to end up as a mile-long smear on the motorway over something quite silly really.
Malc2098 wrote:Malc2098 wrote:Way back in the 80s, I had the cavities of my 3 bed semi near High Wycombe filled with rockwool. It was completed on Christmas Eve. The difference was noticeable instantly. The CH thermostat had to be lowered that night.
Take it up with my ex-wife. I just checked with her that we felt a difference that night, and that's what she said.
The house was a late 60s semi. No question, we used the CH much less after it was installed.
MattS wrote:Trevanion wrote:it would be a shame for someone to end up as a mile-long smear on the motorway over something quite silly really.
I think they’d say and I’d agree that we have gone spectacularly beyond it being a bit silly and we’ll into the collapse of nature, mass extinction and conflict as a result of climate change. A few grants isn’t enough
Trevanion wrote:
Another thing as a joiner that bugs me it that the heritage trusts in charge of the listed buildings are absolutely dead-set on keeping them as thermally inefficient as possible.
Lurker wrote:Malc2098 wrote:Way back in the 80s, I had the cavities of my 3 bed semi near High Wycombe filled with rockwool. It was completed on Christmas Eve. The difference was noticeable instantly. The CH thermostat had to be lowered that night.
That doesn't make sense. The thermostat was measuring the room temperature that it was set at, irrespective of heat input and heat loss.
AndyT wrote:Thanks Mike. The gap in my experience is what that "mechanical ventilation with heat recovery" system looks like. If it needs ducts and grilles in every room, leading to a central unit in the loft, is it possible to retrofit into say, millions of small Victorian terraced houses?
novocaine wrote:hay, what we should do right, and this is really important, is ignore the amount of energy required to make our plastic based or glass/mineral based insulation and instead claim we are saving the planet by using as much of this stuff as possible........
Mike G wrote:novocaine wrote:hay, what we should do right, and this is really important, is ignore the amount of energy required to make our plastic based or glass/mineral based insulation and instead claim we are saving the planet by using as much of this stuff as possible........
Yep, that's right. Because the amount of energy used in making the insulation is utterly trivial when compared with the amount of energy they save over their lifetime. There are perfectly good insulators made from recycled paper or from wool, if embodied energy really is your primary concern.
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