Ste CookThinking 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.
Gaston@Polypompholyx big sigh! I’ve just been looking at flat prices today in London £500,000 for a piece of shit
@gaston Yup. We managed to buy in London about 8 years ago, but it was a tiny 2-up-2-down Victorian terrace with paper thin walls, no damp-proof course, and directly under Heathrow 27R flightpath. Noisy, cold and damp. 400k and change then. Now in a 70s build in Sussex: better (but - hello - 2.5 h round-trip commute), but still: wall insulation is poor and very difficult/expensive to retrofix.