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humblebee hive - retrofit #11 The best laid floor plans... A slight health warning here: this post is a bit long and "knotty" compared...

The first instalment of my Earth Floor write up... how it unfolded!

humblebee hive – retrofit #9 It’s been a while , but here it is… The post about external shutters! (Incidentally, while the retrofit team...

humblebee hive – retrofit #8 Haha, despite the picture above, not that kind of modelling… Give me some numbers! Having given you lots of...

This Saturday, 17th September 2022! Transition Wilmslow and local collaborating groups have put on a second Festival of Nature, with...

Ta da! The scaffold is down! #EnergyEfficiency #retrofit

humblebee hive - retrofit #7 It's the retrofit mantra. And we did notice how quickly it got stuffy once the windows were in and the EWI...

humblebee hive - retrofit #6 Uplifting tales about small challenges leading to better outcomes One of the best courses I went on during...

humblebee hive – retrofit #5 What’s the point of the Planning system? It’s to decide nationally and locally what we want to see and...

humblebee hive - retrofit #4 Last week was less fun as it started with a trip to A&E for one of the site workers. Our bricklayer Tim had...

humblebee hive - retrofit #3 So exciting: finally met the team on d-day: Richard - retrofit coordinator - Chris & Erol (Team "Windows")...

humblebee hive – retrofit #2 Delays with the Planning Application process – and more on this in a later post – meant we couldn’t start...

humblebee hive – retrofit #1 It’s fair to say phase 1 of humblebee HQ’s retrofit has stretched over quite some time… We started planning...

People Powered Retrofit Just an update to let you know I am a Retrofit Assessor for Urbed and the Carbon Coop‘s People Powered Retrofit...

Today the winners of the Home of 2030 competition have been announced, but win or lose, we know how important it is to get future housing...

“When you buy from a small business an actual person does a little dance.” Wow, wow, wow! I am so excited because a few months ago, an...

Plastic, a journey across the seven seas… So… what’s the problem with plastic? Why has our wonder material been making so many waves at...

No more draughty, gas guzzling dwellings – my top tips for improving comfort, indoor health and energy efficiency. The switch in most...

Or the use of one I should say… I hate being cold. I’m pretty “nesh” as they might describe me in these parts, or “frileuse” in my...

That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet…” So here it is – my brand name launch… welcome to humblebee! Why, I...