Sun Comes Out For Greening Beeston Fantastic Home Event
Thu, 8 March 2012
A drizzly start at the Square in Beeston was not able to dampen spirits for what turned out to be a bustling Greening Beeston Fantastic Home event on Saturday 3rd March with over 100 people attending the event.
As the sun broke through and the Saturday morning foot fall increased there was plenty of interest Fantastic Home trailer and the Greening Beeston gazebo with local residents keen to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
Ways to insulate solid walls was high on the list of queries raised, a key issue given the prevalence of Victorian house in the area. There was also considerable interest in the range of clever ways of reduce resource use in the home with plenty off free items being given away.
Visitors to the exhbition were given freebies worth more thasn
£800 which will save them more than £17,000 on their energy bills in the coming years. They will also save almost 20,000kg carbon dioxide emissions and almost 600,000 litres of water.