When your boiler goes it’s a real pain. It means no hot water or central heating. Luckily for us we can always give an Boiler Repair Gloucester firm like the ones at http://www.hprservicesltd.com/gloucester-boilers/boiler-repair-gloucester/ a call to come and sort it out. But what if a herd of sheep or cows were your central heating and your “boiler” was an open peat fire?
In the Highlands and Islands of Scotland the locals did not have much of a choice with what they could use so they developed and built something called a Blackhouse. These were homes made with natural materials of local stone, thatch and peat soil with any available driftwood that ended up on a beach. There was one section for the humans and the other for the animals kept on the croft which was a basic very small farm holding. This form of home was very ecological in some …