JAZ ASBURY METAL DESIGN

The chapel has been completely re-vamped over the last three years from a Welsh Independent chapel into a luxury home with an extremely high level of work in all areas. One of the main features of the building is the very high level of insulation and underfloor heating combining to make it a very eco-friendly building whilst drastically reducing heating bills. The entire building is covered on the outside with a German exterior insulation system. A 60mm thick layer of fire proof Kingspan is sandwiched between layers of special render. It allows the 1′ 6″ walls to warm up in the winter and give off heat, acting as thermal mass. In the summer the walls retain their temperature so the building remains pleasantly cool in the hot weather.

The underfloor heating has 10 separately controllable circuits of plastic piping, over 1 kilometre total length, within a 4″ thick layer of concrete. The entire ground floor is heated this way and the heat rises so there is no extra heating upstairs.The system works by heating water with a mains gas boiler.

All the windows in the whole building are either Velux roof windows or bespoke wooden windows with “document L” specification 26mm thick double glazing throughout. This further adds to the very high insulation levels and also means very good sound insulation, not that there is alot of noise from outside. The 3 roofs have all been re -roofed with welsh slate 24″ x 12″ tiles and a breathable membrane. The wooden roof structures have all been inspected, replaced where needed and treated with wood preserver. As much material as possible from the original chapel has been re-used. The chapel used to seat over 400 people and none of the wood from these built-in pews has left the chapel. It is now used as the panelling/skirting in all of the larger rooms and for the wood of the 19 window seats/sills. The floor boards from the ground floor congregational area have been re-used on the first floor. All the original features, such as ceiling mouldings, balconies, organ casing, pillars, interior stained glass and pulpit have been retained.

Nearly every room has a recurring theme of ivy lights on ceilings or walls or both and ivy curtain rails. The 23 sets of large, full length curtains are all made to measure. It is the intention to sell the chapel with all these fixtures and fittings included. There are 3 bedrooms, one very large, with a built in woodburner, 2 bathrooms, one conventional, one a turkish bath with en suite toilet and basin. The kitchen room is also the main living area, acting as dining room, sitting room and kitchen on an open plan. The biggest room, the snooker hall (only called that because of the full size snooker table presently there), could be used for anything from a games room to a separate dining room to a large office with room for dozens of work desks, to a gallery, to a separate living room or maybe all the above at once.The spatial relationship between all the rooms listed below is very unusual and can only be understood by viewing at first hand.