In this, the first video report, Mike provides comprehensive answers to the questions we're asked most frequently:'Why did you leave your first self-build, The Autonomous House, which you loved, and move up to the Isle of Skye?' and 'Why are you building again, when you said that you wouldn't?' 

Take a tour of the first house we built in Cropthorne, Worcestershire. This was an experimental build, designed and constructed to Passivhaus standard, with no installed heating system and no connection to mains water or drainage. But I'll let Mike explain....