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Themselves aren't particularly experienced in delivering - it at this time. most of the teething issues we've had haven't been - to do with the fabric, we've had those kind of relatively, you think, . simple issues like the hot water not kicking ml or the heating won't kick in or vice versa. yeah. if it was a gas boiler, - you'd get a heating engineer out and they could fix it very quickly. - so it's not the case ofjust calling a plumber now or having one of your electricians or whatever it is, it's actually somebody that understands that particular system? absolutely, absolutely. so that's so...

With that in mind which is why we have selected an air- source heat pump. what have we got here, like spec and systems wise? so, starting from the top - to the bottom, we've upgraded the loft insulation, - new triple—glazed windows, new high performance doors, upgraded the ventilation - internally. we've also added the solar pv on the roof and air- source heat pump. so a fair bit has gone into it. so this is a two—bedroom house? yeah. have we got an indication of how well this will perform throughout the winter? so we've had comment from one of the tenants on site that - they've seen their...

Good detail. it's an incredible building. our gravelly hill site, we have an idea of what we're creating there in terms of the amount of units. what's definitely up for grabs is the detail, especially around heating systems, lighting systems, electrics, insulation. all of those things. the technical spec. we know people, family members, friends who have had difficult experiences with housing — it has been close to home so we do know that's an issue. so the main priority for us is to really try to keep the bills down — which at the moment, given the current cost of living

There's been quite a bit of disruption on site. we started this - project during the end of the pandemic, and then - following on with the supply chain issues that we're still- experiencing as a sector. that has delayed work on site quite significantly at times. _ you can see here the installation that we've been fitting. - what's the spec of this insulation? so it's 170mm thick, stonewall. that's interesting, cosjohn was saying 300mm and this is 170, so a lot thinner. and it's super—dense. yeah. we specified it to bring _ the properties down to a heat demand of 50 kilowatt hours per metre s...

You have on this site? we've got around 30 properties on the site in total. _ these are electric boiler combinations? how are these...? so these are all electric. we don't have a mains gas connection to these properties, _ so what we've done is we've upgraded lthe heating system with that in mindl which is why we have selected an air source heat pump. - what have we got here, like spec and systems wise? so, starting from the top - to the bottom, we've upgraded the loft insulation, - new triple—glazed windows, new high performance doors, - upgraded the ventilation internally. we've also added...