14 Sep - 6 Oct 2019
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Book ahead Directions and Parking – by car If you are following a satnav and coming from the A358 Chard Road,
Alison and Mark’s house is a self-build, eco-house, constructed of timber-frame with recycled wood fibre insulation and high air tightness to maximise energy efficiency. The build has been a learning process! We would love to share what we have learned with you.
Energy Efficiency
Sustainable and locally sourced materials and trades
Water saving measures
We are creating a wildlife garden, working towards Zero Waste and growing our own veg.
Compromises and learning
The house is as Eco friendly as we could make it, but on certain things we have had to make compromises which were not as Eco as we had hoped, sometimes due to the constraints of the site, structural issues, budget or timescales. For example, we would really have preferred to find alternatives to the use of concrete for the foundations and for some of the other materials, but were limited by the requirements of Building Control. Our overall view on this was to do all that we could wherever possible, rather than not be able to progress at all.
This event has now finished.