Why are UK homes so rubbish at staying warm?

11 comments

1. Is it because they’re just thrown up for profit?

2. The landlords bricked up our fireplaces.

3. They are also rubbish at staying cool, in the Summer.

4. Double glazing is extortionate cost now.

5. The funds for retrofitting houses are barely used. Most of our housing stock is ancient and energy was cheap enough to avoid thinking about it.

6. Mine certainly has no issues keeping warm, 3 bed semi built in ’90. Use heating oil for heat and hot water and I don’t think we’ve used more than 500 litres in a single year. That’s around £280 currently. I’d imagine a newer house would be even cheaper to heat?

   The government need to make all home owners want, and be able to afford to make their homes more efficient. Including landlords. 

7. My house is like a 120 year old terrace with no insulation so we had to have the heating on pretty much all week this week

8. I now live in Ireland and it’s even worse here.

   Asking is the house oil heated is a normal question here because most of the country doesn’t have gas and a lot if homes are electric heated!

   I trained, explaining to my Irish friends that it’s not a normal question

9. Building regulations are too lax because the private firms that build the houses want to make x amount of profit and they wouldn’t be able to do that, build the houses to a decent specification and sell them at a price people could afford.

   Same reason why we have some of the smallest houses

   Same reason why they get mostly built on green belt rather than previously used land that would require the firm to clean up first (that tends to only happen if the council pays for the cleanup)

10. Mins a 60s mid terrace, usauly alright temp tbf, bit nippy without the heating on but mid has it’s perks

11. As home builders cut corners so they have lots of money to pay shareholders

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