OK so I need serious building/eco/green help

[Katymac]

I am building a nursery (I think)
I want solar panels
I want rainwater harvesting
I want a log/pellet burner
I want economical heating
I want to superinsulate

I want everything I can damn well have
I will need to source grants
I will need loads of advise

Please help??

Oh, it's here - we didn't get the Guardian this weekend, I'd forgotten this had started (railway carriages are a bit different!)

Thanks pf, this was the bit, thought some of the contacts might be good:

The sensible thing would have been to contact the Association for Environment Conscious Building (0845 456 9773, aecb.net), or consult the listings in the Green Building Bible, by Keith Hall, or visit local "green" buildings - off your own bat or via organisations such as Open House London (openhouselondon.org) and Sponge (spongenet.org).

If you have time katymac, most people are delighted to show off their buildings and if there are 'green' precedents in your area that might be helpful.

Goodness - it's that architect thingie again.......ouch I bet that's expensive

Oh no, I didn't mean the architect bit, they ARE expensive, I just meant that the AECB could be helpful, and visiting other buildings. I think your project sounds brilliant and take my hat off to you. If I ever buy a house and intend living there for any sensible length of time, I intend to flush toilets with rainwater, get something like a solar panel on wind-machine thingy, I honestly believe that govt is, sooner or later, going to have to make such measure mandatory for new buildings. It is SO sensible to put them all in at the start and just swallow that cost up front.

Hi Katymac,

Not sure if this is relevant to you or not but I found this site that was all about new washing lines that are surposed to be great at saving heaps of energy.

Building a nursery I thought you will probably need somewhere to hang the washing!

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