refit west

More comment from Ozzie:

‘We want to disseminate what we have learned and have set ourselves a year’s programme.  We need support for this.  Refit West staff are too busy in Bristol and do not have a promotion and dissemination…

Ozzie talks about his experience during the works in progress of his 1900 terrace refit:

 ‘We agreed a date with our builder and he arrived three days before to finalise things. He started at the agreed time on the start…

Ozzie talks about the planning and building control on his pre-1900s terrace refit:

 ‘The planning departments highest level of concern was the profile of our little extension and how it would fit in and match the profile of the coal…

Ozzie talks about the process of choosing a building contractor:

 ‘We met with five builders.  During the period of considering air source heat pumps, one of the potential suppliers said go and see what Martin Chandler is doing to a…

Ozzie talks about the process of specifying his refit:

 ‘The next step was design and specification.  We couldn’t find an architect or other professional who could give us the impression that they had sufficiently got their heads round eco issues…

Having made the decision to buy a property in Bath, Ozzie and Mary Ffield under went a large learning curve before they were able to make the design decisions necessary to engage a building contractor.  Ozzie talks about some of…

When Ozzie and Mary Ffield retired, they decided to sell their house in Birmingham and downsize to a pre-1930s terrace in Bath.  The building was in need of refurbishment and the Ffield’s decided to include a range of energy efficiency…