Green Open Homes Online: Retrofitting a 1950's cavity walled home

Date: Monday 17 November 2025 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Venue: Online Cost: Free Organiser: Future Ready Homes in partnership with Herefordshire Green Network

Looking for ideas to make your home more energy efficient, cheaper to run and nicer to live in? Green Herefordshire homes are throwing open their doors in the online world to show you the changes they've made, how they did it and the differences it has made to their lives.

Leylines is a detached house built in the fifties on a solid concrete slab with cavity walls and extended in the sixties. Previous owners had improved the performance of the building fabric with cavity fill, loft insulation and double glazing, but we wanted to bring it to a far higher standard of insulation and airtightness as well as reducing dependence on fossil fuels with an air source heat pump, solar panels and battery.

The retrofit and refurbishment has taken about nine months and not been cheap, but has resulted in a house which should be warm, comfortable and very economical to heat

Join this webinar to learn from Claire what they did and why, who did the work and the lessons learnt along the way.

There will be plenty of time for you to ask any questions you have at the end.

Book your FREE ticket on Eventbrite to join us live or receive the recording: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-open-homes-online-retrofitting-a-1950s-cavity-walled-home-tickets-1833411787009?aff=oddtdtcreator

Want to visit some homes in the real world? Green Open Homes is taking place across Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin this November. Find open homes near you using the postcode search at www.greenopenhomes.net

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