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Old House Eco Handbook

A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
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Old House Eco Handbook by Roger Hunt and Marianne Suhr is a practical guide for making historic homesβ€”from medieval timber-framed to Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian terracesβ€”more energy-efficient and sustainable. The book addresses how to retrofit old houses responsibly, preserving their character and value while improving energy performance. The updated edition covers all aspects of the building envelope, including roofs, ceilings, windows, doors, walls, floors, paints, energy, water, and introduces a new chapter on retrofit materials.
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This handbook is ideal for owners of old houses who wish to enhance energy efficiency without compromising their home's heritage or appeal. It is also a valuable resource for conservationists, architects, and anyone interested in sustainable retrofitting of traditional properties.

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The essential guide to retrofitting old houses to be energy efficient and sustainable.

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How should we go about making old houses energy efficient without devaluing future sustainability or the appeal and character of old homes by the use of inappropriate solutions? This practical and essential guide to retrofitting for energy-efficiency seeks to provide answers to this and other questions homeowners of old houses are asking.

Whether your house is medieval and timber-framed, Georgian, Victorian, or an Edwardian terrace, it can be made more energy-efficient and sustainable. This practical and comprehensive handbook will show you how.

Updated throughout for a new edition, Old House Eco Handbook includes chapters on the building envelope, roofs and ceilings, windows and doors, walls, floors, paints, energy and water, plus a brand new chapter on retrofit materials.

This is a must-have for owners of old houses looking to make their homes more energy-efficient and sustainable.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711239777

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 September 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln

Edition: Revised Edition

Illustration: color photos

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Kevin McCloud

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 269.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Roger Hunt, co-author (with Marianne Suhr) of Old House Handbook, is an award-winning writer and blogger with a particular interest in sustainable and vernacular architecture and the materials and techniques used in construction. He is the author of Rural Britain: Then and Now, a celebration of the British countryside, Villages of England and Hidden Depths, an archaeological exploration of Surrey's past. He lectures on building-related issues, is a judge of annual awards for new housing and serves on the editorial board of the SPAB magazine. His latest renovation project is a 1900 house on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA.Marianne Suhr is a Chartered Building Surveyor specialising in the repair of historic buildings. After a scholarship with the SPAB, she worked for seven years in architectural practice, then full-time on hands-on repair projects including three very different old houses. For the SPAB she has run over 40 homeowners' courses and numerous limedays'. She is co-author (with Roger Hunt) of Old House Handbook, and has written and lectured extensively. A co-presenter of three series of BBC2's Restoration, she recently set up the Old House Consultancy, advising on repairs and alterations in the Oxfordshire locality.

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