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Laconia

Energy-saving improvements

  • 'Big' insulation works
    'Big' insulation works
  • Glazing
    Glazing
  • Lighting systems and electrical appliances
    Lighting systems and electrical appliances
  • High spec heating
    High spec heating
  • Renewables: electricity
    Renewables: electricity

Location

Laconia, Old Park Road
St. Lawrence
Ventnor
ISLE OF WIGHT
PO38 1XU

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Laconia is a mid-sixties two bedroom chalet style property.

It sits on a concrete base and has a 'room in roof' style upstairs with a dormer running most of the length of the house.

The current owners purchased the house in 2017 at which point the home was reliant on electric panel heaters and had an EPC rating of F.

Since then the following upgrades have been made:

  • Addition of floor and loft insulation.
  • Addition of insulation to upstairs sloping ceilings throughout.
  • Replacement of single glazing and 80's double glazing with modern glazing.
  • Addition of a log burner.
  • Addition of air-to-air heat pump heating system.
  • Replacement of appliances (induction hob, heat pump drier).
  • Installation of solar PV, home battery storage, solar power diverter for hot water and electric car charge point.

The house recently achieved an EPC rating of C, and the owner has kept meter readings for the last 6 years.

 

Location

Laconia, Old Park Road
St. Lawrence
Ventnor
ISLE OF WIGHT
PO38 1XU

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Opening times

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