Introduction to Redwood Renovation

Redwood Renovation – Introduction and overview…

Redwood Renovation is a an informational website about the eco-friendly renovation of a stone built, late Victorian house, located in the County of Durham, in the North-East of England, which was built at the end of the 19th Century (around 1897).

For around the last 25 – 30 years, the house has been fairly neglected, it’s had odds and ends done to it over the last few decades, but it’s more or less had nothing substantial done to it since the 1970’s.

Most recently, it’s had some work done on the coach-house roof and the house has been rewired. But the rewiring has left holes in walls and skirting boards and for some reason, there’s squares of wallpaper missing around the light switches!

The house is set in around 2 acres of land, which consists of several different gardens, a grass tennis court and some woodland.

Apart from having the grass cut on a regular basis, having some occasional work done on the plants themselves, the gardens have been left to their own devices. Trees have been planted in an ad-hoc manner and lots have self seeded in the ground, just as nature intended.

This might sound an ideal manner in which to let the trees look after themselves, but it’s left them in a right old state. Some of the trees contain deadwood, are leaning in an alarming manner or are so close to each other (some inches apart) that they are quite literally strangling each other! We plan to renovate this drafty, much unloved Victorian house and turn it into an eco-friendly, low carbon footprint home. We will be using the latest green technology for the following;