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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"What's a sustainable house? "
A entry level sustainable home is one which has been built or modified to perform 10% better than a home built in accordance with standard building regulations (2006), the homes are assessed across 9 design categories.
Sorry to bore you with this, I have just spent the past few weeks doing some research on what additional work is required to build a sustainable home, in comparison to a home built to standard building regulation, and out of curiosity wondered if anyone from here was living in a code 6 sustainable home.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"No, but it is my goal to live in a self sufficient and sustainable house. "
+1
That's our lifelong ambition too. Would love to build a little self self-sufficient commune for us and some of our closet friends, we always talk about it. x |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"No, but it is my goal to live in a self sufficient and sustainable house. "
Cool, from what i have seen it can be fun if you DIY it all, however it's deff hard work |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Will be a bit tricky and pricey in an established house, it involves u values far greater than are achievable in an existing house, you would have to carry out an air leakage test and achieve less than 2, have re newable energy, ground source or solar, rain water harvesting, most of the ones we have seen have triple glazed neon filled glass, 300mm cavitys |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I just wondered if any one from here lives in a code 6 sustainable house ? "
Aren't they all on a list some place? Someone might give away their exact location if its the only house in their area. Well food for thought. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I just wondered if any one from here lives in a code 6 sustainable house ?
Aren't they all on a list some place? Someone might give away their exact location if its the only house in their area. Well food for thought. "
i will look into this as i need to do a case study for the next part of my work. and a list like this would be well helpful !  |
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There is a village in Denmark called Friland and it is entirely self sufficient as are all of the houses there, I visited it last year and had a tour and some of the things they do are quite ingenious, take a look on google for it, there is a great video, xxx  |
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By *waymanMan
over a year ago
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"I just wondered if any one from here lives in a code 6 sustainable house ? "
I don't.
Or rather, I don't as defined by HMG. However, there is more than one way to skin a cat.
One of the issues with CfSH is the assumptions it makes.
For instance, to attain CfSH6 you need to fit a maximum 18lt dishwasher. Now, leaving aside the fact that there's nothing to stop the occupiers stripping that out, fitting a larger one and making a mockery of the CfSH6 rating, I don't get on that scale, because I don't have a dishwasher. I have a washing up bowl.
The references to thermal bridging and BRE D materials can be a little off-putting as well - I don't know how a plastered straw and render wall would do on that scale, and I know members of the AECB have debated the difference between theoretical and real-life u values, which tend to revolve around air tightness.
You could probably turn the housing market on its head by acknowledging the depreciation of embedded carbon content in old buildings.It may take x amount of carbon to make enough bricks for a new build, but a 110 yr old brick building is now a zero carbon building in terms of materials, provided it's appropriately retro fitted with insulation and renewable technology. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"it is not a carbon footprint , we do not produce carbon , we produce co2 , pedantic i know but it gets on me wazz lol"
You are perfectly correct, we don't produce Carbon, but man is responsible to increasing the Carbon di-Oxide on Earth by burning fossil fuels amongst other things. |
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