{"id":933,"date":"2010-11-23T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-11-23T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T20:21:35","slug":"insulation-achievement-unlocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/11\/23\/insulation-achievement-unlocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Insulation: Achievement unlocked!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish improving the energy efficiency of your house came with unlockable achievements, I&#8217;d be a total achievement-whore. Roughly a year ago, we bought a very old house (roughly 1750), and it was in a sorry state in terms of energy efficiency. To take just a single room (the living room\/lounge\/whatever), it had thin carpet and crap underlay, huge gaps under the skirting board, a freezing cold cellar underneath with zero insulation between joists, and an open chimney with an open fire. Plus single glazed windows (can&#8217;t change them&#8230;alas), and normal bog standard curtains.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a wood-burning stove, MASSIVELY more energy efficient than an open fire (+400 points)<\/li>\n<li>Curtains lined with &#8216;blackout-liner&#8217;, to keep the heat in (+50 points)<\/li>\n<li>Some heat-reflecting nano-paint, ready to repaint the walls (yes really) (+25 points)<\/li>\n<li>Sheeps-wool insulation stuffed between the joists under the floor (+75 points)<\/li>\n<li>Super-thick underlay and carpet on order (+40 points)<\/li>\n<li>A builder is going to fill all the gaps under the skirting board (+125 points).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To add complications, we just discovered that a draught from under the skirting boards is coming from a HUGE gap in one corner. It looks like the floorboard there is missing, and has been replaced with a thin sheet of metal, that is just hanging in one corner. What the hell? I think that may need properly fixing, by actual tradespeople.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully by the time this is all done, it will massively drop my heating bill, and I won&#8217;t need to sell 10,000 copies a day just to keep us warm. Hurrah! The guy who sold us the house must have worn duvets strapped to each limb all winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish improving the energy efficiency of your house came with unlockable achievements, I&#8217;d be a total achievement-whore. Roughly a year ago, we bought a very old house (roughly 1750), and it was in a sorry state in terms of energy efficiency. To take just a single room (the living room\/lounge\/whatever), it had thin carpet<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Insulation: Achievement unlocked!<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/11\/23\/insulation-achievement-unlocked\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}