Passivhaus Secrets: Discover the lessons learned from designing and building Steel Farm, the first privately owned Passivhaus in the North East of England.

Passivhaus Secrets

Discover how your house can help you create your forever home lifestyle, so that you can live a better life and reduce your ecological footprint.

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Steel Farm, Northumberland

Watched by over 19,212 people...

Go behind the scenes and discover the design and construction process of Northumberland's first Passivhaus self-build.

Watch the entire 3-part documentary to find out how you can avoid pitfalls, overcome planning obstacles, save money and future-proof your home, so you can create a house your family will love and enjoy.

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What other people are saying about the documentary:

"Covers some frightening points regarding traditional practice... Very informative, nice linear style of presentation. Extremely interesting to see the process from A to Z !"

Mick Jordan

"It was refreshing to see an honest account of what is possible. ...I appreciate your efforts to show that it can be done at an affordable level."

Martin Coult

"I am delighted with your work! And your passion to do things right. Very impressive! ...thanks for showing me that there are some committed, good people in the building world. Best wishes to you."

Mishael

Great series, really interesting and has made me want to do my own Passivhaus in the future even more."

Duncan Rae

Thank you so much for the video of Steel Farm, it was very helpful. Met our architect last Friday and told him about your excellent video ....I'm a bit concerned he didn't seem to know about parging."

Jan

I’ve just had a look at the 'during unit' – very interesting, I liked the level of detail."

Tom Jarman

"...Have just sat through the remaining two videos which I also enjoyed and found very useful."

Tim Shepherd

"Thanks for this video, very informative. ...I look forward to the future videos."
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Simon McGuinness, Architect

"Thanks, I enjoyed the video, always useful to hear how someone else goes about it... ...Looking forward to the next videos."

Jim Miller, Architect

"I thoroughly enjoyed watching the first video about Steel Farm."

Tim Shepherd

"Thanks Mark, very interesting."

Annette Poulson