"Pete C" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:33:40 +0100, "IMM" wrote:

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.

More mentalism...

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.

Was the church a new house build to look like a church or and existing
church? Did it have a lot of thermal mass?

It was a church that burned down in 1904. The empty shell was there for 100
years. It was of no merit in looks. I would have ripped it down and used
the stones for cladding on a new house.