Advice Note 3 – Compliance with Part L of the Building regulations

I’ve written about compliance with Part L of the Building Regulations, DEAP and why you can’t rely on backstop u-values previously; and I’ve now summarised the requirements into a shorter ‘Advice Note’. Remember, IT’S NOT ADVICE – YOU MUST DO Read More …

More on Dominic Stevens €25,000 house…

Let’s look at yesterdays €25,000 house in more detail. Remember this was a continuation of the blog post on building smaller I’ve been looking at the irishvernacular.com plans in more detail and I don’t think people are ‘getting’ what the Read More …

Why u-values are not enough – eliminating thermal bridging is key…

This is a bit of a continuation of the Blog Post on DEAP, BER ratings, DEAP, Part L and Building Regulation Compliance So you’ve been working your design through DEAP and no matter what you do, you can’t jump from Read More …