Snell David Architects and the owners were
keen throughout to exercise as much respect
as possible to environmental considerations:
both renewable energy and reduction of heat
loss. In this respect a new ground source
heat pump system was included to assist
with the heating solution. This featured
11 deeply driven bores in the rear garden
supplying heat to both underfloor heating
throughout the house and heat to the
swimming pool which had previously been
fuelled by an expensive gas-fired boiler.
Elsewhere within the house the project
included full re-wiring, re-plumbing and
re-decoration works and new audio-visual
systems on all floors. Standards of thermal
insulation were dramatically enhanced
through the provision of improved roof floor
and wall fabric and double glazing.
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