Ste CookDec 18, 2022
Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.
Show threadWolfgang FeistDec 18, 2022

@Polypompholyx

You can look at it in this way - or you go and develop a chance to change both: Make houses suitable for summer AND for winter.

Retrofits are also possible...

In the UK:

@PassivhausTrust

Show threadSte Cook
@WolfgangFeist We’ve done what we can with solar, attic insulation, fixing blown double glazing, but anything more would be (even more) expensive unfortunately.
Dec 18, 2022 at 6:53pmWeb