Retrofit in Banbury & North Oxfordshire

North Oxfordshire is stone country, and stone walls are where generic retrofit advice fails fastest. Our Orchard House project at Barford St Michael, near Banbury, is the proof: a 1970 house in the local stone vernacular whose irregular rubble-cavity walls could not be filled and whose elevations could not be wrapped — so we rebuilt the envelope from the inside, room by room, in wood fibre, cork and lime, converted it from oil to an air source heat pump, and the house was certified EPC B in December 2023.

If you own stone in or around Banbury, that case study is worth ten minutes of your time.

What we do in Banbury

Whole-house retrofit and every element within it: internal and external wall insulation in breathable materials, loft, roof and floor insulation, high-performance timber and slim-frame windows, airtightness and smart ventilation, rewiring and heating — with heat pumps and solar designed and coordinated by us and installed with our managed certified partners. Fabric first, always: we cut the heat your house loses before changing how it is heated. See the full range of services.

Local, not just willing to travel

We are an Oxford construction firm. Our projects sit on streets across the county, our crew is local, and our survey visits are a short drive, not a scheduling event. When we quote for work in Banbury, the sequencing, scaffold and site logistics are planned by people who know the roads, the stock and the local planning context.