by Paul
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posted in Eco living, Good stuff
| tagged as eco hat, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, eco kettle, ecohat, energy, energy consumption, george wimpey, kettle, milton keynes, oxley park, oxley woods, power, Wattson, wood newton
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 [...]
by Paul
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posted in Problems
| tagged as eco hat, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, ecohat, george wimpey, milton keynes, nuaire, oxley park, oxley woods, sunwarm, ventilation
Today, after a longer than usual break, the eco hat “fresh air” vent is blowing an absolutely abhorrent smell into the house.
Not much more to say on this. We’ve reported it, Wes from George WImpey has experienced it at full whiff, and Nuaire can neither explain or fix it.
by Paul
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posted in Eco living, Problems, architecture
| tagged as eco friendly homes, eco friendly houses, eco hat, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, ecohat, george wimpey, milton keynes, nuaire, oxley park, oxley woods, Problems, smell, sunwarm, taylor wimpey, wood newton
What a start to the day today.
A Nuaire rep came around following a smells from our eco hat pretty quickly, couldn’t find anything wrong with the filter, did discover other problems (more on that soon!) and changed the filters, despite saying he couldn’t really see a problem with them.
The smell did seem to go, or [...]
by Paul
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posted in Problems
| tagged as eco friendly homes, eco friendly houses, eco hat, eco home, eco homes, eco house, eco houses, ecohat, george wimpey, milton keynes, nuiare, oxley park, oxley woods, Problems, smell, sunwarm, ventilation
And by that, I mean quite literally stinks!
Yesterday and today are the first time for a while we’ve felt cold enough to have the windows and doors all closed up for any considerable length of time, the result of which has been rather unpleasant.
A short while ago we left the house empty for a day, [...]