coming up in futurebuild the home of innovation
gary attempts to warm his hands by a fire
joe gets an impromptu driving lesson
mirror mirror on the wall who's the warmest of them all
we get trapped inside a solar roof
and joe explains why he's wearing a green t-shirt
we've had an absolutely brilliant first day down here at future build in london and in this video
we're just going to have a quick look at some of the great products that we've found so far on this
fascinating journey as always we want to know what you think so please leave any of your thoughts or
questions in the comments section below over to gary regardless how we hit home in the future we
still like the look of a traditional fireplace and here we have evonvics fires and that's what exactly
what we've got here what we're looking at there is actually the light pattern it isn't generating
any heat the heat is just up here so therefore i can change the effect and therefore the mood
within that room by simply pressing a button on the remote control there are many settings that we
can go through here but of course i'm sure you're thinking it must have an app and it does have an
app and within that app you can actually download new settings to change the room and the mood say
of the living area in which you're in we also have the ability to change the heat from here so we can
go through those heat settings as well but it's all about that focal point is it i would suggest
that this is considerably better than the the electric fire that your nan possibly had back in
the day that you wheeled out during those colder months and you certainly knew when it was turned
on because if nothing else you could smell the effect the electric heater was on if we move into
electric heating in the future i think this would be a beautiful way to start
now there are some challenges to heating your home up with electricity and of course we've got ground
source heat pumps and air source heat pumps are a fantastic option but of course perhaps when we've
just got out the shower out the back we really want that instant feeling of warmth and comfort
and i can tell you right now standing next to these mirrored panels in this heater panel from
jigsaw i can honestly tell you the heat coming off here is fantastic they're 800 watts so they're
not using an awful lot of electricity but they're emitting instant radiant heat which means that the
air between me and the panel isn't getting heated up it's just hitting me directly and giving me
that source of comforting instant heat it's really controllable via an app or manual control and that
means that you can limit the amount of electricity that you're using it means that you can control
the heating on a room by room basis all things considered these panel heaters from jigsaw are
an absolute winner as we make homes more airtight with the use of vapor barriers and
lots of insulation to improve energy efficiency a question we get asked a lot about electricians is
when it comes to fitting things like down lights and electrical back boxes into insulation and one
of the biggest challenges when you have to break the vapor barrier now we've been on the site so
we've seen people using duct tape and all sorts of things around existing metal boxes so we thought
this product from Isocell is a step in the right direction so what we've got here is a
pre-formed tray that's available either the solid version i've got here or you can have
it fabricated with grommets to bring cable entries in and it's got a self-adhesive backing that you
can peel stick into the insulation and then either bring in a plasterboard box mount it
through the front substrate into here and then you're not going to break that vapor barrier
keep that in all important airtight seal as you catch me tucking into this delicious strawberry
sweet if you look behind me i think you can see joe looking at something called plumbing
now this one is really interesting because this is the Sunamp Thermino range and what this is is
it's a way of storing heat for your water system that effectively removes the need to store the
water itself so in the traditional storage heater tanks we've got down here that would be full of
hot water and that hot water would have to stay in there for a long time but this has instead inside
here it's filled up with a special material that experiences a phase change and what that means
it acts a lot like this little clever device here so this is a hand warmer you may have seen these
stored inside that little piece of metal there is some kinetic energy and when we
click that what that does is it releases that energy and starts to change the state
of that material inside there and that starts to give off the heat in the form of heat energy that
was stored inside there in the form of kinetic energy now inside here this would be filled up
with a similar material and what that does is when you pass your heated water through there perhaps
from a boiler or perhaps you're getting your heat from something like a heat pump or even from the
immersion heater element that's inside there it goes through that phase change and it stores
that heat inside until such a time as you start drawing the water off say for your shower then
what it does is the water passes through the heat exchange in there it starts to suck that heat out
taking it to where it's needed and changing the state of that material back to its original form
it's a really really clever way of storing heat energy without having to store a load of water
and as you can see compared with the typical traditional storage heater tank we've got a real
small footprint for this it's taking up much less space which makes it a much more effective option
for your property oh we're done with all that plum and back to an area we're comfortable with we're
here with this sunsync inverter but it's not just an inverter it's a bi-directional inverter that's
capable obviously taking that sun from the pv panels and obviously sending it back to the grid
or as you really want to be doing using our horn homes but if you've got the option now to couple
it with a battery system as well which is the standout feature of this inverter but
it goes further could this possibly be the swiss army knife of inverter systems because not only
will it charge the batteries put power back to the grid it will also function to divert to our
water heating system as well now we've seen in the past lots of individual systems that will
do that together so you end up putting lots of different things and trying to get them to work
together this all works in one box now you may not have heard of sunsync before but in south africa
this brand is huge and they're now in the uk so if you are coming along the show make sure
you check out this stand next we're looking at gse integration uh guess if i can just stop you
there technically it's integration thank you for that joe so what we're talking about is an
in-roof system that means that we don't need those roofing tiles so think of the cost we've
got to obviously make store and install those tiles or can we remove that part of the process
and have a plate that fits any type of solar pv panel that's correct any size can be fitted into
the in-roof system meaning that we aren't wasting time now if you think about traditionally how we
fit our solar pv maybe with a strut attached to the roof where the tiles are hidden by the new
panels there's lots of issues there to consider the additional weight added to the roof as well
as the habitat you've created behind it for all those squirrels and pigeons which you don't have
in this system because the actual solar pv becomes the roof rather than having that and the tiles so
not only are we saving money we're saving time as we generate our electricity from our roof
there's one thing that's great about coming to a trade show it's finding those new innovations and
i think i found one from austria now everyone knows me i'm a big fan of foam bananas but
the austrians have taken it to another level with this chocolate coated banana
now this product takes us out of our comfort zone a little bit here at efix because it's not
electrical this is an innovation that helps us to insulate our homes it's the cubot and the idea is
is that if you've got a suspended wooden floor like you find in very old houses that were built
perhaps in the 50s and the 60s obviously an awful lot of cold air blows up between the planks of the
flooring and that reduces the energy efficiency of your home now this device can be used with
minimum disruption to a property basically a big hole gets cut in the floor the robot gets put
underneath here and then it's driven around using an xbox controller which is absolutely brilliant
obviously for today's modern gaming generation so using the simple controls on here you can go
forwards backwards and you can turn it from side to side and then when you've got the cubot into
the right position you're able to then trigger the spray nozzle so you can get that into the
correct position and then when you're ready to do the spraying simply hit the little start button
and you get that spray pattern onto the underside of the floorboards which is
absolute genius so once that comes out and it's dried there's it's kind of like an epoxy resin
there's two different materials get sprayed in through these pipes here and when it's
set and hardened you can see it turns into this very dense foam material which is going to add
brilliant insulation properties to the underside of your floorboards there which is absolutely
fantastic so that's really good obviously there's some challenges to using this because this is
going to be underneath the floorboards you're going to be nice and safe above the floorboard
so you're not going to be under there in that dangerous area and so there's cameras mounted on
here that you can then watch on a separate screen which then allow you to drive it around get into
the right position and it will even measure the depth of thickness of the foam after it's been
sprayed on and it's gone off to make sure that you've achieved the correct thickness to maintain
the heating element of the property i think this is absolutely brilliant and it really
nicely summarizes what we're trying to do here at efix energy we're not just about electrical things
we're not just about plumbing we're not just about solar panels and renewables we're looking
at every area of the energy sector including this fantastic product so please make sure
that you head over to efix energy make sure that you're subscribed make sure that you're watching
the content there there's lots more going to be piling up so we'd really appreciate a subscription
over on that channel all that remains in this video is to say thank you very much for watching