Comment on Labour’s reduced home insulation plans ‘simply not enough’

• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mid terraced house two up two down around 3 and half grand to go from zero (almost) to full current specs. Mind you that also included some other roof repair work that we had done at the same time. So definitely get quotes and multiple quotes. Some of our quotes took the absolute piss.

  Let’s say that this figure is five grand per house without any sort of bulk buy government scheme. They would have to spend 19 million homes x £5k = £95 billion over however many years they do this. Probably a lot less as I’ve over estimated my back on am envelope calculation.

  Fair enough that’s actually a lot of money 😂. But spread that out over the course of a government and it’s £20 billion a year. This doesn’t even account for the economic activity it would generate so you’d get a lot of this back in taxes paid by the industry doing the fitting.

  I can just see Starmer now, at the dispatch box. The key priority for our country… Insulation, Insulation, Insulation.

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