{"id":44610,"date":"2025-11-14T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44610"},"modified":"2025-11-14T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T16:53:18","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-mouldy-doorstep-poor-insulation-leaving-houses-mouldy-needs-wider-investigation-government-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44610","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the (mouldy) doorstep\u2019: &#8216;Poor&#8217; insulation leaving houses mouldy needs wider investigation, government told"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Terrace_White_retrofit_illustration_only.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Terrace_White_retrofit_illustration_only.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Terrace_White_retrofit_illustration_only.png 663w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Terrace_White_retrofit_illustration_only-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>image for illustration: IHBC<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homeowners saying poor insulation <em>via<\/em> government schemes left them living in mouldy conditions are calling for a wider investigation, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 About 280,000 properties in Britain were offered free insulation &#8211; either external wall or other types of solid wall &#8211; under government schemes between 2013 and 2025. Billions of pounds of public money was spent\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the National Audit Office (NAO) said that 92% of external wall insulation\u2026 under these schemes over the past three years has at least one major issue\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 The idea behind many of the government schemes was to cut carbon emissions by getting energy companies to install energy-saving measures, including insulation, on people&#8217;s homes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Ms Howe says he told her he was heartbroken: \u2018He said he had never seen anything like it.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce8g3018krro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: IHBC Homeowners saying poor insulation via government schemes left them living in mouldy conditions are calling for a wider investigation, reports BBC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,18,30,23,9,29,14,13,22],"class_list":["post-44610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-building","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-insulation","tag-retrofit","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44612,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44610\/revisions\/44612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}