Tag Archives: eco home

Positive movements?

Well there’s been a lot going on lately that I’ve not been blogging about, purely because a lot of it was timing based. Unfortunately, it appears that the wishes of over half of the residents here at Oxley Woods may have fallen on deaf ears. Hopefully this will not prove to be the case, but [...]

How finished are your windows?

Something we’ve just noticed, which is of little consequence given our current situation, but if you have bought an eco house on the Oxley Woods development, or are considering one, you may want to check your window frames. Do yours look like our kitchen, unfinished with visible screws? Or perhaps like one of our bedrooms, [...]

Wattson energy monitor

On Friday we bought ourselves a shiny new WATTSON home energy monitor from our local Maplin. The device is one of many available that do pretty much the same job. Check your energy consumption via a clip placed on the live wire near your electricity metre, which is sent wirelessly to a display unit (portable [...]