Retrofitting a Typical Irish Bungalow to Passive House Standard

[@sharron9838]

Any advice on thermal bridging of esb meter boxes? Also, what were the additional works carried out, that brought the project to passive standard?

[@EcologicalBuildingSystems]

Hi @sharron9838 its difficult to say without seeing an architectural detail before advising but generally try to keep your ESB meter box outside the insulation layer mostly. The passive standard was achieved simply by following the design principles of Passivhaus together with careful building modelling to stay on track using the appropriate planning software for Passive design.

[@barrymccarron9543]

Only seeing this now @sharon9838 our ESB box was extended in terms of depth within the External Wall Insulation Layer and the old cavity was pumped which helped mitigate the heat loss with thermal bridging. then on the passive house standard to it is as outlined with the other response from Ecological Building Systems. we found some uplift across the five principles with the most being with our window selection however not one regret with our Internorm windows. 1 year on our bills are within a margin of error of the PHPP prediction at just over €1000 for the entire year complete energy costs.

[@Leneonlymph]

Please remove the music from your videos. It's very distracting, so I'm trying to fast forward to a section that may help me and then will likely have to mute it and see if I can figure out if the attic is vented and learn more about whether one should use the wood fibre insulation panels for the new roof surface or how that works. I may just have to contact someone who sells Gutex to see if they can help me with these questions because too many videos are overproduced with the music. I can't focus or learn with that.