On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:43:10 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

The improvement is not substantial until one starts putting in a
reasonable thickness of insulation. This can be ameliorated to some
extent with materials such as Kingspan, but still involve issues such
as reduction in room size, how to handle window and door reveals
without making a pig's ear and redecorating etc. This is not trivial
for most people.

No but there's a constant stream of renovations of such properties going
on and it seems a shame that the regs and/or incentives aren't in place to
take the opportunity when such places are done up. Prolly regs: most
developers CBA unless you paid them a truckload of lolly more than it
actually costs to do it.

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John Stumbles

Fundamentalist agnostic