PEDAL -> Portobello Transition Town

Portobello Warm Tenements

Turn your hard-to-heat tene­ment into a hot property!

• Make your flat warmer and cosier, and save money too
• Energy effi­ciency ideas for your home
• Help apply­ing for insu­la­tion grants
• Referral to accred­ited installers of insu­la­tion or solar panels

Tenements are a unique fea­ture of the urban fab­ric in Scotland. They pose chal­lenges in terms of energy use due to their design, age and parts of the build­ing being held in com­mon ownership.

However there are also lots of energy sav­ing oppor­tun­it­ies for tene­ment house­holds. Energy effi­ciency meas­ures in one flat can bene­fit the other prop­er­ties in a stair. For example, loft insu­la­tion in a com­mon loft can reduce fuel use even in ground floor flats by up to 7 per­cent, and in an upper flat by 20 per­cent. Solar hot water pan­els could provide the top floor flats with up to 70 per­cent of their annual hot water.

Portobello Warm Tenement scheme is run by PEDAL in part­ner­ship with Changeworks and ESSac. The scheme offers energy sav­ing advice to all house­holds in local tene­ments, sur­veys to identify poten­tial energy sav­ings for the whole build­ing, and roof sur­veys to find out whether your tene­ment could have solar hot water pan­els.  It also offers help with installing reduced cost meas­ures includ­ing loft insu­la­tion and solar hot water pan­els.

If you live in a tene­ment in Portobello and want to find out more about the Portobello Warm Tenement scheme, or you want to book an energy advice visit from our Energy Worker and get star­ted on mak­ing your home warmer and sav­ing money, please contact:

Charlotte Bickmore at charlotte@pedal-porty.org.uk or on 0131 258 4483.