High spec windows and doors are a major expense for self-builders, so understanding the airtightness issues relating to windows and doors is important. I’ll be available on Mon 17 February between 4 & 5pm for Q&A on air tightness issues relating to doors and windows. Contact me now to join me on Zoom. If you…

Good to see that Jonathan Atkinson of Carbon Co-op spoke to the Climate Assembly UK yesterday at their second weekend https://www.climateassembly.uk/meetings/weekend-2/home/

The AECB have a Passivhaus Contractors course running in Carlisle @Ecological Building Systems on 12 & 13 November – for further info : /www.passivhaustraining.co.uk/contractor/

Wherever you are based in north Lancashire or Cumbria (Kendal, Penrith, Carlisle, Workington, Whitehaven or wherever!) please join me for a session on Mon 14 October at 7pm on what airtightness in buildings is and the easy way to achieve an air tightness pass for Building Regs. Just get in touch and I’ll send you…

MEES Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards I’ve outlined below some of the key points relating to the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for dwellings: Timetable 1 April 2018 – It will be unlawful to grant new leases of residential or commercial property with an EPC rating below an ‘E’ 1 April 2020 – The regulation will…

Building Regs Part L1a places a penalty on those dwellings on a development that are not air tightness tested.There should be a figure of +2m3/hm2 @ 50Pa added to the air permeability test result achieved for that dwelling type (Part L1a paragraph 4.8), but I would question whether this always happens in practice…