In article , IMM
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This fool obviously has never been in modern house. You can keep your cold,
damp asthma infested old crocks.

You're the fool for wanting to live in a jerry-built timber-framed
rabbit hutch, squeezed onto an "estate" with umpteen characterless clone
"executive showhouses", built down to the lowest possible price (see the
current thread on ring main sizing in a new house) by greedy cowboy
builders, with inadequate foundations (see http://www.wronglybuilthouses
..co.uk/) on land prone to flooding. The NHBC "guarantee" appears to be
worthless, run by a cartel funded by the cowboy builders themselves.

On the other hand, my 1930's semi-detached is solidly built, toasty
warm, has been rewired and replumbed to a high standard, has new
windows, a new kitchen, a new bathroom, and best of all, room to move
around in. And it has character.

HTH, HAND, FOAD.