Over here (England) about 10-12 years ago there was a ‘fad’ (maybe that’s being a bit unfair actually but anyhow) for cavity wall and loft insulation, a Government backed scheme. I heard about it from word of mouth, contacted my local council and yes it was correct. The gist was the Government put a chunk towards having it done. So we did, can’t remember the costs exactly now but it was about £3000 to have done and I paid about a third, £1000. We have a small 2 bed bungalow. So the firm came, did a survey, then came back a few weeks later to do it. All fine, thought no more of it……
Well, we now know with the benefit of hindsight that scores of dodgy cowboy firms sprung up all over the place doing this work on properties that should never have had it done. Owing to house wall construction, property age, type etc etc. All these dodgy firms vanished as soon as they had plundered the market and got as much out of it as they could. So any guarantees they gave were worthless. The politicians (today) won’t have anything to do with it (not their mess), nor the councils that gave these firms licences (ditto), the MSM aren’t interested (yesterday’s news and not a WOKE topic) so jog on everyone…..let’s go electric, it will all be fine!!
There’s hundreds of thousands of homes, flats and the like with horrendous damp in the walls because of this cavity insulation material. The stuff ‘wicks’ up the moisture from ground level and acts like a big trapped sponge that will never dry out. It’s horrendous. Many people cannot claim on insurance, homes are uninhabitable, they can’t sell them. Seriously.
So the point is, while its all well and good well heeled metropolitan types talking about ‘going green’ the reality for many ordinary people with ordinary lives and average incomes is that it’s not that easy.
