A 200-year-old house in Cornwall was losing heat and impossible to keep warm
- Mitchell & Dickinson to the rescue!
Pictured is the Kiki and Hugh Hayes
Mitchell & Dickinsonis changing the face of insulating older properties in the UK. The company specialises in improving the energy efficiency and draught proofing of listed properties or where homeowners do not want to lose period features.
Mitchell & Dickinson had the pleasure of working on a 200-year-old four-bedroom property in St Neot, Cornwall. The property which consists of 18 single pane windows throughout was losing heat and impossible to keep warm. Owners, Kiki and Hugh Hayes, tell their story of how Mitchell & Dickinson'sCosyGlazingwas installed throughout and proved the perfect solution.
Property owner Hugh comments, "Our oil-fired central heating boiler was on its last legs, so we decided to replace it with a ground source heating system. In so doing, we realised that we needed to address the heat being lost through our single glazed doors and windows."
"All of the windows and some glazed doors were single glazed with wooden frames. We think they were probably updated in the early 2000's and we had them repainted around ten years ago when we bought the house, so they were in pretty good condition."
"Our home isn't listed so we'd initially intended to replace the single panes of glass with double-glazing fitted into the same wooden frames. However, it soon became clear that this wouldn't be possible, and we'd have to remove and replace the entire window units if we wanted double-glazing. As the windows were in perfectly good order, this would have been both expensive and unnecessary."
"It was at this point that we were recommended to contact Mitchell & Dickinson about their secondary glazing system, CosyGlazing, because it was visually unintrusive and we could still open the windows. We were impressed by the consultation and decided to commission Mitchell & Dickinson to fit their secondary glazing to the windows and doors."
Pictured is the CosyGlazing secondary glazing from Mitchell & Dickinson
"We were particularly attracted to CosyGlazing because there was an option of having a white surround, or a surround that could be painted and tailored to our décor.
"There was one issue that arose immediately prior to the installation - the air vents in some of our window frames presented an issue with the CosyGlazing fitting, but Mitchell & Dickinson worked closely with us to come up with a solution that involved tailoring the product slightly and adding new vents elsewhere, on doors for example, to ensure that we maintained adequate airflow in the house."
Pictured left the exterior of the building; right CosyGlazing secondary glazing from Mitchell & Dickinson
Hugh concludes, "We'd certainly recommend CosyGlazing to other people who are unable or unwilling to install double-glazing for whatever reason. Our windows aren't features, as such, but we had family and friends over and they didn't even notice that we'd had secondary glazing fitted, which should reassure people with beautiful feature windows.
"With the ground source heat pump installed and the secondary glazing on the windows and doors, we now heat the whole house rather than just the few rooms we spend the most time in, which is much better for the property as it stays consistently warm. We're pleased to have made our home more energy efficient and it also ensures we stay nice and warm as we get older.'
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Editor's note
Mitchell & Dickinson specialises in delivering bespoke insulation solutions for period homes and listed buildings in the UK. Products include a unique, advanced secondary glazing system known asCosyGlazinghigh-qualitydraught proofing for windows and doors, and specialist sheep's wool insulation for underfloor, sloping ceilings and lofts which will greatly improve the energy savings, soundproofing and ventilation. Mitchell & Dickinson's insulation solutions are installed on site, by expert craftsmen all of whom are direct employees and fully trained in house. The company also offer restoration services which often precede the installation of
One of the founding principles of Mitchell & Dickinson is to cut carbon; the carbon savings that result from the work carried out are 50 times greater than the carbon footprint which ensures Mitchell & Dickinson is a carbon-negative company. So far, over 100,000 tonnes of CO2e has been saved since Mitchell & Dickinson started insulating homes in 2010, which equates to 800,000 flights to Paris, or 50,000 cars taken off the road for a year.
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