On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:30:47 -0000, "IMM" wrote:

Poorly designed houses that cost a fortune to heat and collectively
contribute vast amounts of CO2 to global warming should be demolished. The
current new houses should get 100 years. But if far superior newer, no
heating houses are common in 30, 40, 50 years, it is easy to dispose of the
current crop.

Making poor technology to last is silly.

For the sake of three hundred pounds' worth of insulation? Do you
*know* how many council houses there are in the UK?!! It would cost a
hell of a lot more to replace them all with modern rabbit hutches.

MM