On 2007-10-17 22:53:58 +0100, John Stumbles said:

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.

It's one of these things that sounds easy to do in theory but the devil
is in the detail.

In smaller types of house of this ilk - you can think of large numbers
of these if you cast your eye down the hill from where you are - there
are several issues:

- Small to begin with so not wanting to make smaller

- First house or affordable house so hoping to make some money on it to
step up the ladder

- Impression or being told that this might detract from appearance and value.

Result is that downside or perceived risk plus cost to implement saving.