Tag Archives: ecohat

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 [...]

The grim reeker

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.

Morning in our George Wimpey Oxley Woods eco house

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 [...]

Our ecohat stinks!

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, [...]