Bigger Supplies Needed.

Or as noted above we need to start demolishing older housing stock, and rebuilding with cavity walls that can be insulated and so on.

Actually a lot can be done while retaining the original structure - I've taken a 1910 build stone house that a 24kW combi struggled to keep warm and insulated it so that I now reckon 3kW keeps it toasty warm even on the coldest Yorkshire days. It was certainly a lot of work and a lot of disruption, and I was aided by a few features that made it easier (e.g. no internal doors adjacent to outside walls), but it is possible.

   - Andy.

Would I be correct in assuming that you put insulation inside the walls? Not possible in my house without ripping out the high skirting boards, dado rails, picture rails, and cornices!

In response to Mike, I am rather fed up of people in the media bleating about only being able to afford to heat one room. What do they think that we always used to do?

Would I be correct in assuming that you put insulation inside the walls? Not possible in my house without ripping out the high skirting boards, dado rails, picture rails, and cornices!

In response to Mike, I am rather fed up of people in the media bleating about only being able to afford to heat one room. What do they think that we always used to do?

Dunno -  as a child I well remember drawing in the ice on the inside of the bedroom windows for a few weeks a year. My grandparents also had a paraffin heater in the outside loo that got lit at bedtime if the forecast was for ice, though that was not for our comfort, (humans had a gazunder after all ) , but really to stop the cistern freezing, and they had a portable gas fire that they used to lug from room to room in the event of visitors and gas taps near the fire places in the main rooms and one in the bathroom that the rubber hose could be connected to.  It got condemned during the change over to north sea gas, so then after a year or two more they had a boiler installed and moved into the 1970s.
Mike.