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> previous government insulation schemes were so sucessful that there were already very few homes left with no loft insulation by 2008 The UK government thinks
by ZeroGravitas 3y ago
> previous government insulation schemes were so sucessful that there were already very few homes left with no loft insulation by 2008
The UK government thinks that by 2020, there were still 8 million homes with lofts and no loft insulation:
> At the end of 2020, 14.3 million properties had cavity wall insulation (70 per cent of
properties with a cavity wall), 16.6 million had loft insulation (66 per cent of properties
with a loft) and 772,000 had solid wall insulation (nine per cent of properties with solid
walls).
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/970064/Detailed_Release_-_HEE_stats_18_Mar_2021_FINAL.pdf https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
edit: updated stats from 2022
> At the end of 2022, it is estimated that 14.8 million properties had cavity wall insulation (71 per cent of properties with a cavity wall), 17.0 million had loft insulation (67 per cent of properties with a loft) and 805,000 had solid wall insulation (nine per cent of properties with solid walls)
- makomk 3y agoAh. Those government stats only count homes as having loft insulation if they have more than 125mm of it (this is actually documented in the PDF you linked but it's all the way on page 24 so if you just read the summary you probably missed that). In practice there are a lot of UK homes out there with loft insulation that falls short of that because there's rapidly diminishing returns from adding more and it's a lot of extra hassle to put insulation in that's deeper than the joists. Those homes have much, much worse return on investment on adding loft insulation than a house which genuinely didn't have any.