House Planning Help Podcast

Ben Adam-Smith

If you want to build a house, where would you start?

  • 1 hour 49 seconds
    HPH370: Where your money goes on a home retrofit project

    Florence Collier, founder of Humblebee, takes us step-by-step through the deep retrofit of her 1970s home. She explains the costs relating to each measure and the cumulative total as the project advances.

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    29 January 2025, 11:56 am
  • 46 minutes 56 seconds
    HPH369: Converting a barn to meet the Living Building Challenge โ€“ with Toby Diggens

    Toby Diggens explains what it takes to meet the requirements of the Living Building Challenge, and working to the standard when renovating an existing building.

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    15 January 2025, 1:46 pm
  • 47 minutes 23 seconds
    HPH368: Creating biodiverse natural landscapes โ€“ with Toby Diggens

    Toby Diggens, founder and co-director of Digg and Co outlines how we can all contribute to creating ecologically diverse and resilient landscapes to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.

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    1 January 2025, 4:52 pm
  • 32 minutes 49 seconds
    HPH367: A furniture maker builds a timber eco home โ€“ with Lucinda Leech

    Furniture maker Lucinda Leech shares her story of building a modest, but beautiful eco home.

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    18 December 2024, 2:49 pm
  • 45 minutes 12 seconds
    HPH366: Could a home energy transformation pay for itself?

    Howard Johns, founder of One Zero, outlines their home energy transformation service which includes topping up insulation and adding solar PV, battery storage and a heat pump.

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    4 December 2024, 7:08 pm
  • 37 minutes 58 seconds
    HPH365: Becoming a housing activist โ€“ with Cypren Edmunds

    Cypren Edmonds, a housing activist and advocate for bio-based building materials, describes the challenges he has faced living in social housing in London, and the health benefits and energy efficiency that can be achieved through building with straw.

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    20 November 2024, 12:43 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    HPH364: The power of community led housing โ€“ with Kareem Dayes from RUSS

    Kareem Dayes, co-founder of RUSS in Lewisham, explains why setting up a Community Land Trust was a route to deliver genuinely affordable housing and create a better neighbourhood.

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    6 November 2024, 4:28 pm
  • 48 minutes 37 seconds
    HPH363: Is it worth getting an asbestos survey for an existing home?

    Greg Byrne from RB Asbestos Consultants explains what asbestos is, why it was used so widely in construction, its potential impact on health, and how you go about identifying and removing asbestos products.

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    23 October 2024, 1:48 pm
  • 34 minutes 21 seconds
    HPH362: An easier way to build a certified Passivhaus โ€“ with Clare and Ross Booth

    Clare and Ross Booth from Coldwells Build share details of their prefabricated, turnkey Passivhaus designs that aim to simplify the delivery of high performance homes in Scotland.

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    9 October 2024, 3:15 pm
  • 44 minutes 22 seconds
    HPH361: What's the difference between a renovation and a retrofit?

    Paul Testa from HEM Architects explains the difference between renovation and retrofit, using his own home as an example of a deep retrofit.

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    26 September 2024, 1:56 pm
  • 35 minutes 50 seconds
    HPH360: Why MVHR maintenance and servicing is important โ€“ with Richard Hollas

    Richard Hollas from 21 Degrees explains why regular MVHR maintenance and servicing is essential, what it entails, and we accompany him step-by-step as he services a unit.

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    11 September 2024, 5:55 pm
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