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My concerns over the ability of Wales to achieve its zero carbon dream by 2012 appear to be shared by the political community. According to a news item on the Energy Saving Trust website our Housing and Planning minister Margaret Beckett has decided that the meaning of ‘zero carbon’ is now to be re-evaluated. “We…

With the somewhat baffling success of our YouTube videos now playing on Channel MBC … (Serving over 1,000 discerning TV viewers to date!) I thought I should turn my attention to still photographs and using the best of the web to make them available to you. Please join our new My Barn Conversion flickr group…

From the start of this project, I’ve been through numerous options regarding the method by which we’ll heat the barn and generate hot water for domestic purposes. It’s been a long and twisty road but I think I’ve arrived at a solution that I’m comfortable with (at least for the time being). Let’s start off…

I feel like I’ve somewhat misrepresented pellet stoves in the past. To recap, pellet stoves are wood burners with a difference, they burn pellets made from pressed waste wood, that are feed from a hopper into a combustion chamber all of which is often controlled electronically. I’m sure no-one has really been reading who’ll take…

As this project progresses certain features become core to the overall design whilst others fall onto the ‘B’ list. This ‘B’ list consists of technologies and design elements that I would like to implement during some future phase of the project as time and money allow. Electricity-generating photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have always been on…