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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Amy Reeves

We're making our 300-year-old cottage warmer with insulated lime — experts suggest it will save us at least £200 in energy loss per year

Pouring plaster into a bucket ready for mixing with water.

It's a truth universally acknowledged that the importance of insulating our homes is not to be underestimated, but when you have two-foot thick stone walls instead of cavities that can be filled with insulation what do you do?

My partner and I live in a 1700s Somerset cottage, and we knew when we bought it that the house had been completely covered in a cement render, leaving it uninsulated and damp. As a result, it's been very chilly throughout the few autumns and winters we've had in the house, and after braving sub-zero temperatures, we decided it was time to resolve the issue once and for all.

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