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.
Schroedinger@Polypompholyx The thing is, houses were built to retain the heat that you put in from fires in the rooms. If you cannot afford to heat them, this does not help.
They are well built for the environment they are in, assuming you can afford to heat them. I am not saying it is efficient - although, of course, terraced/semi houses would help heat each other.
The core problem is energy prices and the lack of government investment in renewables.