AECB – Airtightness and air leakage
Understanding where buildings leak really helps when insulating.
Historic England, Energy Efficiency and Older Homes
- Overview on energy efficiency in older homes
- Energy Efficiency and Traditional Homes PDF available for download (from 2020)
Eco Home Essentials – Insulating Old Homes
- Pros and cons of different insulation types in old homes
- Extra links for different insulation types
The Victorian Eco House
First person account of upgrading the insulation in a Victorian home, including the costs and opinions.
Useful Links
Carbon Calculators
- Energise Sussex Coast’ Carbon Calculator
- http://www.carbon-calculator.org.uk/
- New app that links your bank spend with carbon calculation
Energy Bill template
EPC Register
Home/ Business energy monitoring platform
Retrofit Coordinator Links
- Warmer Sussex – create a whole house retrofit plan
- Retrofit Works – an online platform co-operative linking home owners with installers and expert retrofit plans
- Trustmark – search for Retrofit Coordinators and Trustmark certified installers
Funding
- Green Home Grant – government funding for home owners to make their homes more energy-efficient.
- Energy Company Obligation funding
- Access Local Delivery fund and other funding for energy efficiency works via the Warm Home Check if you are on a low income and live in East Sussex
Product recommendations (please note these are the personal recommendations of the panel and not endorsed by Energise Sussex Coast)
- Mighton timber staff and parting beads
- Wormbox composters
- Waterblade – water saving device
- Plumelabs air purifier
- Infrared heating
- Warm4less infrared red heating
- Chimsoc chimney balloons
- Stove mounted convection fans for wood burner
Other interesting links
Lewes Transition Towns Online Open Eco Homes event
Examples from local residents
Watch the video recording of our Zoom webinar event and hear from 4 local residents about how they made their Victorian homes more energy efficient and other tips for lowering your carbon footprint.
- Timings:
- Start Richard Watson – Carbon footprinting and other ways to save energy
- 20.43 Ken Davis – total transformation of a Victorian terraced home to as near passive house standards as possible
- 28.01 Catherine Taylor – home restoration with a focus on insulation 33.50 Peter Varley – experience from retrofitting two properties. Includes advice on insulation, air source heat pumps and infrared heating.
- 50.04 Q&A session
We are very grateful to our panel for giving their time and expertise for this session. The panel are very happy to answer any more questions. Please email kate@energisesussexcoast.co.uk and your question will be forwarded on.
Panel members
- Richard Watson, CEO Energise Sussex Coast
- Ken Davis, retired architect and sustainable design consultant
- Catherine Taylor, local resident
- Peter Varley, retired Chartered Surveyor and Project Manager