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UK insurers and mortgage companies don't like homes of non-traditional construction because they've tended to develop expensive and unpredictable problems a few
by makomk 7y ago
UK insurers and mortgage companies don't like homes of non-traditional construction because they've tended to develop expensive and unpredictable problems a few decades down the line, and they dislike both uncertainty and things that cost them lots of money for obvious reasons.
- CalRobert 7y agoHow is wood housing non-traditional?
- makomk 7y agoIt's not how homes have normally been constructed in the UK. We have a few ancient wattle and daub houses which are no doubt hell to insure, but anything Victorian and newer was generally brick-built or concrete other than some prefabs from the inter-war period which are definitely hell to mortgage or insure. Modern timber-based construction methods are completely different from all those things.