Heat My Home 2025 Season 1 Episode 3
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00:01I'm Ciarán McCarthy, and I've been working as a building engineer for nearly 30 years.
00:07I get asked all the time, how do I save money on energy costs?
00:12Well, retrofitting is all over the news lately, and in this series I'm travelling around Ireland
00:18checking out homes that are getting energy upgrades.
00:21That dark blue is the coldest.
00:23This is typically what I'd expect to see in an old house.
00:26With prices only going up and the planet under pressure, more and more people are saving money and energy in
00:33their homes by taking on the Retrofit Challenge.
00:36I'll be showing you what's actually doable and what kind of grants are out there to help.
00:41From heat pumps to HVAC, I'll break down the technical jargon and make sense of all the retrofit lingo so
00:47it's easy to follow.
00:48You're just bamboozled with all the decisions that need to be made.
00:51So, come with me as we retrofit Ireland and discover how you can reduce your energy costs.
00:58This is Heat My Home.
01:05Today, I'm on my way to meet 39-year-old software engineer Adam O'Brien, who was currently living at
01:12home with his parents in Balancolic in Cork.
01:15This temporary stay is pending on a major energy retrofit of his grandparents' house, which he bought from the family
01:22two years ago.
01:23It's a 1950s-era bungalow on the Commons Road in Cork.
01:28Adam hopes to bring this house up from an F to at least a B2 energy rating.
01:34And he is doing a lot of the work himself on the house, to which he has a strong emotional
01:39connection.
01:40My mother grew up in the house.
01:41They moved in sometime in the 60s.
01:43My grandfather had gotten a job across the road in the HGW factory, which then became the Dulux Paint Factory.
01:49The house was freezing.
01:52We all lived in the dining room and the kitchen.
01:55And, of course, then they got the gas.
01:57But my mother would have been delighted that Adam has it.
02:00And the fact that he's doing all this work now to make it such a habitable and warm, comfortable house.
02:07My initial fears going in to doing the work myself was, am I doing it correctly?
02:12Am I doing it the right way?
02:14Looking up YouTube videos, asking friends who've kind of done the same sort of thing,
02:18you kind of realise that any direction that you go will be the right one.
02:23There's no major mistakes.
02:24If anything does happen, it may take a bit more time and a bit more money, but you can go
02:28back from your mistakes.
02:29The initial dream was to get my own place, somewhere that I'm comfortable in.
02:34I came into the house with three priorities.
02:36I wanted the place fully rewired.
02:37I wanted a nice big kitchen.
02:39And I wanted it warm and dry.
02:41After 15 plus years of renting in different houses, I've done a couple of winters without central heating.
02:46I'm just kind of craving somewhere warm and dry.
02:52Climbing the steps up to Adam's house, I can see he's well underway with the clearing out.
02:56And I'm curious to get a rundown on his plan of action for this big project.
03:01I see you're up and running with some work already anyway.
03:04Yeah, just a little bit of debris outside.
03:06You've allotted the big thick old block walls and the breeze blocks.
03:10What's your plan on the outside from a kind of an insulation perspective?
03:13I'm going to go with the external insulation.
03:16So the entire house will be encased in hard insulation.
03:20It's the most expensive way to insulate your house, but it's a really good way
03:24because the dew point on the insulation is on the outer surface, so it just blows off in the wind.
03:30I'm dying to see how you're getting on inside.
03:31Will you show me around?
03:32Yeah, come on.
03:35So this used to be the good room.
03:37This floor was suspended, so I've started filling in the sub-base floor
03:42with recycled materials from elsewhere in the house.
03:46The important thing here is you've got to watch cold bridging,
03:49that you're going to have edge insulation around the edges,
03:51so that the walls, which will be typically a bit colder, won't transmit any coldness.
03:57To help reduce heat loss, putting an insulating barrier between the wall and the floor around the edges
04:02is a simpler way to reduce thermal bridging,
04:05which affects areas of a building where cold can be transferred more easily
04:10due to breaks in the insulation.
04:12I tell you, the windows don't look that old.
04:14Are you keeping these or are you upgrading them?
04:16They'll be upgraded to triple glazed.
04:18On top of having the triple glazed, which will dramatically reduce the noise outside,
04:22the air tightness membrane around the windows will help with air leakage,
04:26so a kind of a double benefit.
04:28Next up, on the interior tour, I take a look at the attic,
04:31and there are no surprises here.
04:33This is typically what I'd expect to see in an old house.
04:36Sometimes you wouldn't even have insulation, but you have an amount of insulation here already.
04:40It's the only insulation in the house, so this should be taken out and replaced with new insulation.
04:46One of the most important things in an old attic like this is,
04:50like you see here, that's old sarking felt, which has no breathability whatsoever.
04:55So when you've all your insulating and air tightness and everything done in the house,
04:58you need to make sure this area can still breathe,
05:01because it will be cold and you can potentially get condensation on the underside of the sarking felt.
05:06So you need to make sure you have adequate ventilation.
05:08The attic can be the main culprit for heat loss in any house,
05:12so I'm going to carry out a quick test to check for any possible trouble spots.
05:17What I have here is a thermal imaging camera.
05:20What it does show you is it shows you where some of the cold spots,
05:23so areas that are basically sucking cold into your house, right?
05:27When you look at here now, you can see the insulation in between the joists.
05:30It's doing a little bit of work. It's not deep enough.
05:32But the biggest issue is that the timbers in between the insulation are actually cold bridging.
05:37You can see them as cold lines on the thermal imaging camera.
05:40So what you'll be doing here now, you'll be laying insulation between the joists
05:44and you'll also be laying insulation over the joists.
05:47The benefit of that is they're no longer bringing coldness back into your building.
05:52We're done with the interior for now, and Adam takes me to the garden to reveal his plans for the
05:57roof.
05:58So out here, I'm hoping to place solar panels.
06:01This is south-facing, so it's obviously the best place to put them.
06:04And so the plans have about eight panels.
06:09Adam's plan to install solar panels on the south-facing roof is a fantastic idea
06:14and will be a good source of electricity for the house.
06:18Even in dull Irish winter weather, solar PV is viable as the panels generate power from light,
06:25not heat, and can still produce some electricity on a day with heavy cloud.
06:31After an in-depth viewing of the house, it's over to Adam's family home,
06:36where we go through some of the costs involved.
06:39Although he's doing a lot of the initial works himself,
06:42Adam has decided to avail of the one-stop shop programme for everything else.
06:47One of the advantages of going to the one-stop shop was that I wouldn't have to manage
06:52multiple contractors across multiple weeks, months, or even years.
06:56So this is a fantastic hub.
06:58Yeah, I mean, look, there is an awful lot to doing a deep retrofit.
07:01There's a lot of different contractors doing a lot of different things,
07:04and they all have to be staged.
07:06And there's a bit of work in putting all the grant together.
07:08So I guess there's a bit of value in all the project management.
07:11Yeah, there is entirely, definitely.
07:13So the total cost of all the works before the grants is a whopping €83,427.
07:21And of course, the total cost of retrofit works after grants is €48,867.
07:28It's still a very large sum of money, but this is a single payment.
07:32And I suppose you're looking at the lifetime of your home as a long-term investment
07:35and many years of living in a very comfortable home.
07:39And of course, dramatically reduced energy bills.
07:41Yeah, and I think it's somewhere that my parents and my mother can come over,
07:46or my aunts and uncles and cousins, and still get the feel that it's still in the family,
07:51but now it's something new and exciting.
07:54Right, thank you very much. We'll see you again soon.
07:57Thanks very much, Ciarán.
07:57You've got a lot of work to do.
07:58I definitely do.
07:59Nice to look. Take care.
08:00Thanks very much.
08:02So we've spoken about some very big figures there,
08:05and this is after Adam doing a lot of the demolition work himself.
08:08He still has a load more to do,
08:10and I'm looking forward to coming back to see if he gets it all done,
08:13because it is a huge task.
08:20It's day one on-site for the contractors,
08:23and Adam has popped by to check on progress
08:25for the first big-ticket item of this retrofit project,
08:29the new windows.
08:31I'm feeling excited about it,
08:32because it is obviously the first step.
08:34It's something I've been kind of waiting for.
08:36It's the first big job to getting it warm, getting it dry,
08:40getting it a bit quieter as well, because of the main road.
08:42I understand that my grandmother kind of got used to it over the years,
08:45also for some of the windows that are being put in,
08:47they're essentially smaller panes for less vibration.
08:50It's not the end of the line for the old windows,
08:52as Adam has a plan for them.
08:55The windows that were taken out,
08:57they had to cut the frames to take them out properly.
08:59The initial idea was that the quickest thing
09:01is to kind of just break the windows themselves
09:03and just take everything out.
09:04But my brother down in West Cork was hoping to get the windows
09:08to be able to recycle them into a greenhouse,
09:09so it's another aspect where the windows will be recycled.
09:12The windows are in,
09:14and the next job to be tackled is the external insulation,
09:17which consists of slabs of rigid insulation
09:19covering the entire outside of the house.
09:22The guys are putting it together
09:23and it provides obviously a greater layer of insulation,
09:27a greater layer of keeping the heat in to the house.
09:30The guys start with kind of a white plinth at the bottom
09:33and then kind of build up with this kind of rougher insulation material
09:36that can take on a bit of plaster.
09:38The guys only started this morning,
09:40so this has only been a few hours.
09:41The only difficulty for them really
09:43is just being able to cut around windows and everything else.
09:45Say the gable wall doesn't have any windows,
09:47so that will just be plonk, plonk, plonk straight away.
09:50The work continues at a blistering pace,
09:53but lead contractor Jamie has spotted a problem
09:56that could slow things down.
09:58This being your neighbour's alleyway,
10:01they've been kind enough to allow us to do this wall,
10:03but at the very end of the wall there,
10:04that gate would need to be removed
10:07and then attach it to their wall
10:09so we can insulate that part.
10:11Alternatively, we can go all the way down
10:13to the end of this laneway.
10:14The little bit at the corner,
10:15the workaround will be,
10:17we can do internal insulation on that room there
10:20on the wall facing out if you get me.
10:22Okay, I'd have to assess.
10:23Like, for the internal, what would that look like?
10:26The gable end wall comes as far as this line here.
10:30So the gate is attached to the other side of this wall.
10:33So if your neighbours don't allow you to move that gate,
10:36we can't externally insulate this section of the wall.
10:39Now, the workaround would be this whole wall here
10:43gets an internal slabbing.
10:45I have to think about it.
10:47I don't want to annoy the neighbours more than I have to.
10:50Yeah, yeah.
10:51And so it does, again,
10:53kind of more doubly insulate this room as well.
10:55This has always been the wettest one.
10:56You can kind of see remnants of mould
10:58and everything in this corner.
10:59Sure.
10:59So I'll just have to assess it
11:01because it's just a small other job
11:03for myself to get done.
11:04But, yeah.
11:09Today, I'm on my way to catch up
11:11with Adam O'Brien from Cork,
11:13who's carrying out a deep retrofit
11:15on his grandparents' house,
11:16which he purchased a couple of years ago.
11:19Since I last visited Adam,
11:21he has done an amount of work on the property.
11:25Both the windows and external wrap have been installed
11:28and the solar panels,
11:30which will supply a good portion of his electricity for the house,
11:33have been fitted on the roof.
11:36But there's still lots to be done
11:38and Adam's place is a hive of activity.
11:41Hello.
11:41Adam.
11:42Ciarán.
11:42I'm seeing loads of vans outside today.
11:45What's happening?
11:45So the ventilation system
11:47is being finalised, put in,
11:49the second fixing, as it's called.
11:51The conduits were put in previously for it,
11:53and they're ducting for all the air.
11:55So now they're popping it in and checking it out.
11:57And then while they're up there in the attic,
11:59they're finalising all of the attic insulation.
12:01So they're rolling out a lot of new insulation for me.
12:04OK, sounds very exciting.
12:06Why don't you show me around?
12:07Yeah, absolutely.
12:08Let's go up and check it out.
12:08I'll follow you there.
12:10The mechanical heat recovery ventilation system
12:13that Adam is getting installed
12:14is a system that brings fresh air into your home
12:17while recovering heat from the stale air it removes.
12:20It works by passing outgoing warm air
12:23through a heat exchanger,
12:24which transfers its heat to the incoming cool air
12:27without mixing the two.
12:30This means you get fresh, filtered air
12:33at a comfortable temperature,
12:34reducing energy loss
12:36and improving indoor air quality,
12:38all while keeping your heating bills lower.
12:43One of the reasons I wanted kind of a heat recovery unit
12:46is because the house has been very damp in corners.
12:48Even with the windows open in the summer,
12:50it doesn't move the air within the house.
12:52So it'd be very interesting to see
12:53that that's able to extract all that moisture
12:55and that condensation as well from the house
12:57to kind of keep it, you know, not go mouldy.
12:59And I see you've also fitted your solar inverter.
13:02Yeah, so the solar inverter and battery
13:04were placed in a few weeks ago.
13:06They were connected up to the solar panels
13:07here on the rafters,
13:09so that's the connection.
13:11And you have a battery fitted as well?
13:12Yeah, the system is a 3.5 kilowatt solar system outside,
13:16the 5 kilowatt battery,
13:17and that battery,
13:18I do actually have a direct connection to it.
13:20So if there's ever an instance
13:22that I'm, you know, the power is cut in the house
13:24and I need to just run something off of a plug,
13:26I should be able to pull directly from the battery as well.
13:29And then anything extra
13:30is actually fed back into the grid.
13:33The one-stop shop helps set it up
13:34to get it fed back into Electric Ireland.
13:36The other benefit of the battery
13:38is there's a setting on the system
13:39so you can have your night saver electricity
13:41fill the battery at night as well.
13:42So you can actually put your reduced price electricity
13:45into the battery at night,
13:46kind of particularly in the winter
13:47when you wouldn't be generating as much power, you know.
13:50Adam's ultimate goal
13:51is to someday get off the grid
13:53and become self-sufficient with his energy needs.
13:57His dedication has me wondering
13:59about the steps your average household would need to take
14:02in order to get fully off the grid.
14:05This curiosity leads me to County Kilkenny
14:07to meet with Mike Wilkinson,
14:09who is some way down the road
14:11towards his own energy independence.
14:14I hear you've been living off the grid.
14:16Can you tell me a little bit about that?
14:18That's right.
14:18My wife and I have been living off-grid here
14:20for the last two years.
14:22It's been a dream of ours for the last five years,
14:24but realistically,
14:25we've only been doing it for the last two.
14:27But I think the best thing to do
14:28is to come and show you the setup.
14:31Okay, lead the way.
14:34So the first thing you're seeing then
14:36and hearing obviously is the wind turbine.
14:38These are known as micro-turbines.
14:39They generate AC electricity,
14:41which is then sent into a control unit
14:44inside the shed there,
14:45where it's converted into DC
14:46and stored into batteries.
14:48And of course, with the wind turbine,
14:49you can generate electricity at night as well,
14:51when you wouldn't be generating
14:52any electricity from your solar.
14:54Absolutely, and not just at night.
14:56Even on days like today,
14:57where it's quite grey and dull
14:59or in the depths of winter,
15:00we can still have a source of power coming in
15:02that we can store and then use inside the house.
15:05And when it comes to solar panels,
15:06what kind of an array have we got?
15:07How many panels?
15:08We're running 36 panels at the moment,
15:11but they're all small ones
15:12because we bought at the wrong time, unfortunately,
15:15but we're due to upgrade that in the near future.
15:17Currently, we're running 1.4 kilowatts
15:19from the ground mount array
15:21and 3.6 kilowatts from the rooftop array.
15:24Combined, we get roughly 5 kilowatts.
15:28I have never seen such an array of battery power
15:31in one room.
15:32How did you go about designing a system like this?
15:35There was a bit of trial and error involved.
15:37Technology is moving so fast in the industry
15:40that it's hard to keep up with what's the latest thing.
15:43So we started off with campervan kind of stuff in mind.
15:46We found out very quickly
15:48that that wasn't quite powerful enough
15:49to run a whole house.
15:50So we were scaling that up and scaling that up
15:53until the point where we realised that,
15:56no, you have to go with domestic level stuff
15:58in order to live a modern lifestyle off-grid.
16:01If someone was inspired by your story
16:03and was starting today,
16:04what tips would you give?
16:05OK, make friends with an electrician,
16:09be the first one.
16:10A lot of this equipment can be bought individually
16:13and realistically,
16:14you have to spend a good six to nine months
16:16learning about how to set it up.
16:18So everything that's done here
16:19is always done from a safety point of view first
16:22because at the end of the day,
16:23you're investing somewhere in the parish
16:24of 10,000 euros into this.
16:26And if you do it right,
16:27it'll last you 10 to 15 years minimum.
16:29However, a small mistake could cost everything in that.
16:33Living off the grid certainly has its challenges,
16:36but with the right amount of solar, wind and battery storage,
16:39it's definitely achievable.
16:41It takes planning, patience and a willingness to adapt,
16:45but the independence it offers makes it all worthwhile.
16:48For anyone looking to make the switch,
16:51start small and learn as you go.
16:54Back in Blackpool, County Cork
16:56and the retrofit on Adam O'Brien's grandparents' house,
16:59which he purchased a couple of years ago,
17:01is moving into its final stages.
17:04All the work in the attic is done
17:06and today it's time for the installation
17:08of the heat pump and underfloor heating.
17:10It's one of the biggest changes to the house
17:12to get the heat back into it.
17:14I've been working for a couple of months
17:16to try and get the floor installation
17:17to an acceptable level.
17:19So there's been a lot of communication
17:21with the retrofit company.
17:22I was obviously concerned that they may come in
17:24and say, oh no, that's not right.
17:25This is not right.
17:26You should have done this.
17:27So kind of essentially a critique
17:29and then pushing back the project another few weeks.
17:31But that doesn't seem to have happened.
17:33The floors are level, the water pipes are in place
17:36and project manager John is doing a last review
17:39to ensure all is up to scratch.
17:43Let's check in here,
17:44make sure there's nice even centers
17:46on the pipe work that the lads have laid.
17:49Everything looks good inside here.
17:51As you can see, they've reached all areas of the room.
17:52There'll be no coal patches here
17:54once the job is up and running.
17:56Now, your underfloor will be tested today
17:58and it will maintain pressure.
17:59So we know that there's been no damage done
18:01to the pipe work before the screed is poured.
18:03It's a big moment for this project.
18:06Everything has been installed and tested
18:08and it's time to pour the concrete.
18:11So this seals everything on the floor
18:13and becomes essentially a mass.
18:15For the pipes to heat up,
18:17it needs to be of a certain consistency or density
18:19to be effective across the house.
18:21And then the screed is a self-leveling screed,
18:24so it should come out to a nice level
18:25across the entire house.
18:27And once the screed is dry inside,
18:29it may take a few days to up to a week to cure,
18:31and then I should be ready to kind of start designing
18:34and developing inside.
18:35So this is very much the watershed,
18:37the kind of end of the major stage
18:41of like a lot of the DIY construction development work.
18:45And it's on to design next.
18:51It's been almost a year since work began
18:54on this big retrofit project
18:56for Adam O'Brien near Cork City.
18:59Insulation, windows, floors and heating
19:02have been fitted to bring this 1950s bungalow
19:05bang up to date.
19:07I'm really looking forward to seeing the results.
19:13I'm hoping Adam's hit his target
19:15and today I'm making one final visit
19:17to see how the place looks
19:18now all the work has been completed.
19:22How's it going?
19:23How are things?
19:23Good now, how are you?
19:24Very good, very good, very good.
19:25Do you want to come inside and have a look?
19:26Let's go.
19:31Wow, it's roasting in here.
19:34Yeah, it's a definite change to what it was before.
19:36We won't need the jacket.
19:37No, definitely not.
19:39So how's everything been going?
19:40It's been going very well.
19:41Things have really come together
19:42in the last few months.
19:44It's been a massive DIY project.
19:45So just kind of going room by room
19:47just to kind of finish it off,
19:48get it to my comfort level,
19:50to be kind of nice and warm
19:51and everything else in here.
19:54Well, Adam,
19:54this room is completely transformed
19:56since I was last here
19:57and the one thing I'm really noticing
19:58is like there's busy traffic outside
20:00and I can hear very little of it.
20:02Yeah, massive change
20:03from when the double glaze was in.
20:05Being able to kind of sit down
20:06and chill out in the sitting room,
20:07nice and quiet,
20:09just ignore kind of any weather
20:10or traffic outside
20:11has been amazing.
20:12And I see you've refitted
20:13your precious stove.
20:14Yeah, I had that installed previously
20:16just to try and get a bit more heat
20:17into the house
20:18prior to the energy upgrades,
20:19but haven't necessarily needed it yet.
20:21So I haven't fired it up
20:23this season at all.
20:24It does slightly impact your BR,
20:27but a lot of people nowadays
20:28like to have the stove
20:29just so that they have
20:30that backup plan
20:31in case there was a power cut.
20:34In this room,
20:35I had a problem
20:36with cold bridging here
20:37where the external insulation
20:39couldn't be put on.
20:40It was just approximately
20:41about a metre,
20:42metre and a half
20:43where the sort of gable end
20:44of my bungalow
20:45and the neighbours
20:46essentially have a gate there.
20:47So they were very kind
20:49to allow the external insulation
20:51to come up all the way
20:52along the laneway
20:52that they have access to,
20:53which is on their property line.
20:55So for this room,
20:56I put in insulated boards here,
20:58insulated plasterboard,
20:59just to kind of cover
21:00that last little bit.
21:01I did the entire wall
21:02to keep it uniform
21:03because I didn't want any
21:05like little notches
21:06or little bits of the wall
21:07coming out.
21:08It doesn't take too much
21:09away from the room itself.
21:11It still feels quite spacious.
21:12So yeah,
21:13it was a very easy decision to make.
21:17The new insulation
21:19and on-the-floor heating
21:20ensure Adam's home
21:21is cosy and warm today.
21:23But I want to see
21:24just how warm it is
21:25compared to a year ago.
21:27So let's have a look
21:28at your attic
21:29now that you've all
21:30the insulation work done.
21:32God, there's a huge difference.
21:33This is keeping your heat
21:35downstairs
21:36and of course the attic
21:36is now cold
21:37because you're keeping
21:38the heat downstairs
21:39and none of the heat
21:39are coming up into the attic.
21:41Yeah, it's great to see
21:42all the extra fluffy
21:43insulation up here
21:44really encapsulating
21:46that envelope.
21:47Throughout this
21:48renovation project
21:49Adam has been aiming
21:50for a BER rating
21:51of B2.
21:53Has he achieved this goal?
21:54So all this work
21:56has been done
21:56to dramatically improve
21:57the energy efficiency
21:58of your home.
21:59So the real question is
22:00where did your BER land?
22:02Yeah, the BER.
22:02So when this whole project
22:04started the BER was an F.
22:06So it was pretty
22:06pretty like at the bottom
22:08G obviously being the lowest.
22:09And so it was reassessed
22:10recently so I'm happy
22:12to report that I have
22:13an A1 rating.
22:16Really, that is
22:17an amazing achievement.
22:18Well done.
22:19Well, that's amazing.
22:20That is superb.
22:21So it's really good
22:21to have that
22:22to kind of show off
22:23the level of work
22:24and the investment
22:25and time that I've
22:26put into the house.
22:29My work here
22:31is done and dusted.
22:32All that remains
22:33is for Adam
22:34to throw his new
22:35hall door open
22:36and welcome family
22:37and friends
22:37to have their own tour
22:39of his transformed
22:40home.
22:41That was a change
22:42to what it was.
22:43The efforts from
22:44what it was originally
22:44in the house.
22:46He's had frustrated
22:47times and everything
22:48but he's still motivated
22:49and fairness through it
22:50all, you know.
22:50He's put a lot of love
22:52and blood, sweat
22:52and tears into this
22:53so it's fantastic
22:54to finally see
22:54that it's all paid off.
22:55Hopefully he'll have
22:56many happy years
22:57in his cosy new home.
22:59Well, Adam,
22:59to celebrate
23:00the lovely warm house
23:01you've welcomed us
23:02into today
23:02I brought around
23:03a little bit of champagne
23:04thought we might have
23:04a bit glass
23:05and raise a toast.
23:13I'm kind of excited
23:17to see how the winter
23:18fares inside here.
23:19Two years ago
23:20when I was asked in here
23:21when it was all intact
23:21it was very cold
23:23wearing a hoodie
23:23the whole time
23:24trying to get the fire going
23:25not great
23:26but I'm hoping
23:27to kind of like
23:27sit on one of the couches
23:29look out onto
23:30dark sleety
23:32snowy weather
23:32and just be warm
23:34and comfortable
23:35inside
23:35and just that
23:36kind of cosy feeling.
23:37Thanks everyone
23:38for coming.
23:38Cheers!
23:39Cheers!
23:41Cheers, well done.
23:41This has been a long road
23:43for Adam.
23:43Getting hands on
23:44and taking on
23:44any kind of renovation
23:46project yourself
23:46takes a lot of courage
23:47especially when you have
23:48all the technology
23:49of the deep retrofit
23:50to think of.
23:51But now their cherished
23:53family home
23:53is safe and warm
23:55for generations to come.
24:14To be continued...
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