Our Vision
The solution:
We create simple, cost-effective, step-by-step retrofit plans that fit our customer’s life and investment planning.
We take a whole-house approach, aiming to reduce energy bills and improve comfort. We know that isolated improvement measures suggested by EPCs may not deliver the benefits you seek and with the high cost of upgrading your home, targeting your investment properly is ever more urgent. We take into consideration all the particulars of your property including planning restrictions, style, and age of the property to provide a sensible and bespoke plan so work can be done step by step, according to your budget, and won’t have to be re-done later. Just as important, we are fully independent and don’t upsell equipment or receive contractor’s fees.
Our Mission
The Issues:
Domestic properties are responsible for 28% of UK Carbon emissions
18% of the UK is in ‘Fuel poverty’—unable to afford their bills—and this is before 2021 price inflation.
Most of the UK building stock is pre-1919 and is prone to mould, damp and draughts.
Hearth provides expert advice for your energy retrofit
Each home is unique. Our retrofit experts measure the property, interview the owner or occupants and compare what we would expect energy use to be with your actual bills. Listed buildings have completely different problems and solutions compared to post-war apartment blocks and often require a more delicate approach. We are sensitive to older and traditional buildings and understand the requirements to optimize modern heating solutions.
Our Story
Our sustainability story has taken us around the globe and back!
We’ve been there right from the beginning….our founder Melissa Merryweather came to study architecture in the UK back in the early 80’s because of the UK’s long history of building renovation and re-use. She left to practice architecture in fast developing Vietnam and after designing green resorts and retrofits, helped to found the Vietnam Green Building Council, developed a green building rating system and educated a new generation of architects and engineers.
Returning to the UK she found that sustainability here had stagnated, with false starts and over-complication in the domestic homes sector. During the last few years the situation has changed --many people now understand that reducing our carbon footprint is urgent, but the majority of existing building stock is still poorly insulated and prone to damp and mould. Seeing that these problems are two sides of the same coin, the result is Hearth—our contribution to reducing climate change and fuel poverty in the UK.
