Keep an eye on your screens this week as local business owners Ian and Jayne Hall Edwards get a second airing on Channel 4’s Restoration Man. The couple who are proprietors of two local businesses have previously been seen on George Clarks Channel 4 Show ‘The Restoration Man’.
In this latest episode George and the crew have returned to Pencader to follow up on the progress of Ian and Jayne’s restoration of ‘Hen Ysgol’ (Welsh for ‘Old School’) in the heart of Pencader, a rural community in Carmarthenshire, West Wales.
Ian and Jayne run two companies, Pecs Ltd which focuses on general building work, joinery and the installation of green technologies as well as Solar Cymru (www.solarcymru.co.uk) the online sales arm that supplies a diverse range of green technologies and home enhancements such as underfloor heating, rain water harvesting, PV roof panels, solar thermal panels, air to air pumps, air to water pumps, low energy lighting, low energy pumps, permeable paving, green roof installations, Bio-digestive tanks and multi-fuel wood burning fires and stoves, as well as biomass options including pellet and log gasification units.
Both companies are based out of Hen Ysgol a stunning restoration of Pencader’s historic school now a comfortable and ecologically friendly green technology showcase, sales, training centre and home.
Ian and Jayne are keen to point out that all of these green technologies do not have to be installed as isolated units but can be linked together with modern and ecologically efficient intelligent buffer tanks to provide hot water and central heating on demand saving the home or business owner pounds in the long run.
Ian and Jayne have worked on the project for the last five years having bought the derelict and failing building only to find that the condition of it was much worse than the initial survey suggested. The project has in total cost them over five hundred thousand pounds of their own money, though following a visit from Economy Minister Edwina Hart has been boosted with the addition of over fifty thousand pounds of economic support from the Welsh Government.
Against all of the odds and throughout a very difficult economic climate Ian and Jayne have almost completed the restoration even though times have often been incredibly difficult.
When asked to Comment Ian simply replied that ‘Only the mad succeed!’
Tune in tomorrow night to see for yourself on Channel 4’s The Restoration Man. The programme airs at 8.00pm on Channel 4.
Links: www.solarcymru.co.uk & pecs-ltd.co.uk
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