One Step Closer to Zero
One of the personal desires I've harboured for some time is to reduce the carbon emissions from my home to as close to zero as I can possibly get them. I got another step closer to that goal today. After a couple of false starts due to documents going astray in the post I finally had cavity wall insulation installed. The installation only took about 2 hours and apart from the noise of the drilling there was very little disruption. The installers did an excellent job and left little mess and I'm now hoping that the extra insulation will help retain heat in the house so that we can reduce the amount of heating oil we burn. Based on my experience of the process I'd recommend it to anyone.
Ideally I'd like to get rid of our oil-fired boiler completely and I am working towards that goal too, but until then reducing the amount of oil we use will help lower our carbon emissions. We currently buy all our electricity from renewable sources and have solar hot-water heating installed so the oil used for heating remains our biggest household source of carbon emissions.
Cross-posted from http://www.codefounders.com/community/blogs/greenroads
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