It’s a very big house, with four bedrooms (two of which are en-suite) and a large wet room which you could "fit a football team in”. The fact that it's well-insulated and buildings made of timber heat up more quickly means that it's eco-friendly too.īuilding work started in November 2006 and the Zero Carbon House took 14 months to complete, with Michael doing a lot of the work himself (he's the one sitting at the front with the black hat). The Rea's plumped for a timber frame build because it's low-cost, lightweight and can easily be constructed anywhere. ![]() “It changed the way houses were built,” says Michael. It's become a prototype which the Scottish Government uses as a baseline for building sustainable houses. For Michael Rea (72) and his wife Dot, building the Zero Carbon House was something they had always wanted to do.
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