{"id":127848,"date":"2022-07-19T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/simple-solutions-to-building-cool-houses-letter\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:59:58","slug":"simple-solutions-to-building-cool-houses-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/simple-solutions-to-building-cool-houses-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple solutions to building cool houses | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMadeleine Worrall says the use of trees and natural materials could be used to good effect if the housing market had the will Your article says that many older buildings will have to be retrofitted (\u2018A lot of challenges\u2019: can housing industry build homes habitable in high temperatures?, 19 July). Yet my Victorian terrace house is good at remaining cool, largely because of its orientation at the back, facing north-west, and its use of organic materials. Ivy, too, will help regulate a house\u2019s temperature, but is discouraged by surveyors who fear what lies beneath.Friends\u2019 loft extensions, which comply with inadequate building regulations, are sweltering. Without improved regulations, we are left in the hands of the major housebuilders that dominate the market, creating tomorrow\u2019s abandoned slums as cheaply as possible, often in areas that will flood in the next 20 years. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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