On 16/06/14 21:06, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/06/2014 20:38, Rick Hughes wrote:
On 16/06/2014 17:17, Martin Brown wrote:
On 16/06/2014 17:07, Rick Hughes wrote:
On 16/06/2014 14:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

One option is install a LOT of thermal mass and draw the curtains by
day
and open the windows by night.


Timber frame ... so the opposite is in this build

Grow ivy or climbing plants up the S & SW facing sides?

Install external shutters on the windows... or roller blinds.

Bo***cks to that ... ruins brickwork & pointing

Only if it is rubbish grade pointing and modern useless bricks.

I would agree.

I have had ivy up one corner of my house on bare London Brick Rustics
(herring bone pattern). Bricks are 1950s.

I chop the ivy off and it grows back. Repeat ad infinitum.

The only damage it's done to the bricks it leave its "roots" stuck all
over them.

The main reason I chop it off is I cannot see out one window and it
tries climbing into the soffits.

OTOH the last house I rented, built in the 90's, when I drilled to put
up some hooks in the garage, lumps if the brick face were coming off and
the brick core was made of cheese.