An ambitious client was motivated to improve the living conditions and to reduce the carbon emissions of their Aberdeen home. Parts of the house were rarely used in winter because they were too cold. The client had made some improvements themselves but needed further guidance.
The home was originally built in the 1920s, with two more recent extensions and a room-in-roof conversion. Many of the existing period features were to be retained.
Our Whole House Retrofit service was chosen to evaluate all the options and our Retrofit Coordinators guided them through the project from start to finish.
Local contractors were used for all the measures
Retrofit Assessment
Our survey uncovered numerous area of improvement:
- Missing Insulation
- Incomplete Insulation
- Thermal Bypass
- Thermal Bridging
- Airtightness
- Leaking Floor boards
- Poor cable and pipe finishing
- Poor sealing windows
- Leaking ceiling lights
Incomplete insulation in the roof space
Leaky sockets causing thermal bridging
Leaky door seals
No insulation under the floor and poorly located pipes
Poorly fitting and inadequate insulation in the roof space
Cable entries causing significant leakage
Services Provided:
☑ Retrofit Assessment
☑ Air Permeability Testing
☑ Retrofit Design
☑ Planning Permission
☑ Listed Buildings Consent
☑ On-site Retrofit Coordination
Air permeability testing
Measures Installed
Underfloor Insulation
Internal Wall Insulation
Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Airtightness Measures
Wood-burning stove inlet
Secondary Glazing
Room-in-Roof insulation
Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP)
Solar PV Panels and Battery Storage
Internal Wall Insulation
Floor insulation
Room-in-roof insulation
Battery Storage
Secondary Glazing
Airtightness Measures
Air Source Heat Pump
Log burner direct intake
Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery (MVHR)
Solar PV on garage
Exterior Door Upgrades
The Results
Not only did the client achieve their ambitions of decarbonising their heating, they also achieved much better indoor air quality and comfortable evenly balanced temperatures throughout the house
Client feedback
“ The project makes the house much warmer, more even in temperature and well ventilated.
And we have disconnected our gas supply!“
