Light bulbs are just the beginning.

[BlasterBates]

Zero Carbon Building

[Sysman]

Why don't you read the article and comment on that, rather than continuing on this rather ridiculous debate about wooden houses and ventilation in the cellars.

What article?

Unless you mean the one about the wooden classroom which you posted, thereby bringing up the subject.

Did they even consult a heating engineer?

But hang on. I think we have the answer here:

The Living Ark was built at Muswell Hill Primary School, North London, at the cost of £25,000.

Local councillors, at Labour run Haringey council, who were behind the initiative, opened it with great fanfare in December as a beacon of their climate change policy.

[BlasterBates]

What article?

Unless you mean the one about the wooden classroom which you posted, thereby bringing up the subject.

Did they even consult a heating engineer?

But hang on. I think we have the answer here:

that's the one.

[TimberWolf]

Doesn't this forum have an eco-shed guru?

[gricerboy]

Doesn't this forum have an eco-shed guru?

shedhead

[minestrone]

I sit next to an Architect (a real one) who was saying he would like to do a couple of zero carbon houses "but just a couple, no more".

Looks like he is floofed then.

[OwlHoot]

I think what the EU diktat means is more buildings like this.

Zero carbon building

I imagine a wooden underheated building like that probably stinks because of the mould and wood rot.

Personally I think a cave would be more comfortable.

WHS

and tens of thousands of people will die of lung disease and liver cancer caused by moulds such as Aspergillus

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Wooden houses if maintained properly have a minimum life expectancy of 30 years which may not sound a lot but when you consider you can buy one for £40K it is still cheaper than brick (you only buy the land once). It’s just the UK mentality / tradition that houses have to be brick or they will fall down; most new houses are timber framed with a brick / block & render skin to them purely for atheistic reasons
& I do believe that all new developments should have ground heat recovery built in

What in flip has God got to do with it?

[OwlHoot]

What in flip has God got to do with it?

11 And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,

12 Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:

13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

[Halo Jones]

What in flip has God got to do with it?

God knows? opps