Our new cottage is proving challenging. Because we're renting, we can't go wild with winter-proofing it as we'd like. And when the temperatures dropped last month, every room was freezing with droughts coming in from the rickety windows and doors. The huge, ancient boiler chugged away trying to keep up to no avail. It was just so depressing.
Solution: Husband went out and bought rolls of foamy insulating tape and lined every gap and hole. He then put in a large wooden drought excluded to block the massive gap on our front door. The difference is massive. It gets warmer quicker and stays warm longer.
But it brings up the issue of environmentally negligent landlords. They don't double glaze, only buy efficient boilers when the ancient ones finally break down, and could care less about the energy leaking homes they rent out, as long as they're not paying for the gas bills.
They should all be forced to follow eco-codes for their housing stock. From what we've seen, they won't be progressive, or even sensible, unless forced to.
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