Herefordshire Green Open Homes 2025
1 Nov - 1 Dec 2025
Opening times: Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th November
Tours at 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm.
Please note: Steps up to house, toilets on site, parking on site. I have ‘pinned’ Cwtch Cabins & Camping on Google Maps
Other Turn up for house tours at given times
Ruth welcomes you to her timber house, built under caravan regs.
Green features:
Off grid for electricity using PV. Hot water generated using solar thermal and using excess PV. Biomass back up boiler. Very well insulated and ‘district heating’ in place.
Motivations to make changes:
We built it with planned sustainability.
Approiximate costs:
80k
Approximate energy savings:
Huge! Unanswerable
Benefits:
Clean predictable heating.
Next steps:
More panels and more batteries, borehole. Considered turbine to trickle charge batteries. Rejected as capital outlay is huge.