"Pete C" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:19:12 +0100, "IMM" wrote:

That church would cost a lot of money to heat as insulation was not a
major
part of the construction. I would have pulled the church down and built a
proper eco house. The old stones could have been used to clad, or add
thermal mass to a new eco house, still giving a link with the past.

Eh? Why not leave the church alone and build your eco house elsewhere,
I bet the church will stand a lot longer!

That building is environmentally a disaster. It will consume far more energy
than needed. It also looked crap. It looked like a lousily designed church,
of which I have seen countess better looking churches over the past 25 years
demolished.

BTW was there a natural gas supply where it was? If not it might
explain the use of a heat pump.

Oil and LPG would be cheaper. The capital cost of the heat pump was 10,000
euros. The extra they paid for a fad would buy a lot of oil.