Here are some pictures showing the two different finishes chosen for the external insulation, one in traditional brick and the other a coloured render. Also apparent is the solution arrived at to install triple […]

Students from Birmingham Metropolitan College have been learning a lot about the types of houses they might be living in, in the future. On Tuesday 14th June, Emma Love and 8 of her students who are undergoing a construction course at the college attended a presentation by Lawrie Newton, Tomlinsons Innovations, Best Practice & Sustainability…[Read more]

These pictures show the extensive amount of roof insulation being applied between the rafters and not laid between the ceiling joists as is usual, with loft insulation work.  The method shown will be far more effective, essentially keeping the entire roof space warmer and reducing heat loss to a minimum.

A Wates system house which is a PRC (prefabricated reinforced concrete) large panel construction built in the 1950’s has been chosen as the demonstration project in order to complete the works and is home to Rebecca & John Linehan and their 3 children Charlie, Michael and Ella, located in Northfield, Birmingham. Our main drivers for [...]

Picture No.1 shows the construction of the new external front porch which will provide a ‘buffer’ between the inside hall way and the external envelope helping to reduce air infiltration and heat loss, adding to the enhanced thermal performance at ground floor level. Picture No. 2 shows our scaffolding system necessary to form the new building [...]

Birmingham contractor reaches stage 2 in national competition A Birmingham contractor has reached stage 2 of the national retrofit for the future competition. G F Tomlinson Birmingham Ltd put forward a Wates system house which is a PRC (prefabricated reinforced concrete) large panel construction built in the 1950’s. The demonstration project in…[Read more]

Work commenced on Monday 21 st March 2011 with the lifting of the paving slabs surrounding the house in order to make way for the new drainage system and the foundations for the new Porch.  We have ensured the needs of the property have been assessed as a whole and that they happen in the right sequence [...]

Here are some interesting thermal image photos that we took last year in November. It is clear that the building is very thermally inefficient and that our solution to wrap the building externally will be a good solution to stop the heat loss permanently. Hot spots in red! then reducing to yellow to green for least [...]

This is our first report on our very difficult retrofit project at 31 Raven Hayes Road in Northfield Birmingham. We certainly chose a beauty; A Wates style semi detached house, all concrete construction, pictures shown below Because of the nature of the post war constructed building having solid concrete walls, there was no opportunity to utilise [...]