New-build homes: why some owners are left feeling the cold https://t.co/rdkOJZ9COE Solicitors & Estate Agents In One Just £899 + vat .. https://t.co/eLmKfiYyW9 (via Twitter http://twitter.com/conveyandmove/status/1091619806665682944)
Saturday, February 2, 2019
New-build homes: why some owners are left feeling the cold
We investigate shoddy building practices that mean higher-than-expected heating bills
Newly built homes are more energy efficient than ever, the government said this week. But thousands of buyers are finding that their expensive new homes are cold and draughty with heating bills far higher than expected. The culprit? The finger of blame is pointing towards builders rushing to meet targets, lax standards and poor inspection, with badly installed dry lining at the heart of the issue.
Dry lining became popular in the UK in the 1980s, replacing traditional “wet” plastering with ready made plasterboard attached to walls and ceilings. It means plastering can be done in a couple of days rather than weeks.
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Friday, February 1, 2019
Oldies are pampered. We should offer a new deal to the young | Patrick Collinson
Older people benefit from a raft of tax reliefs, while Generation Rent has been dealt a bad hand
At the lovely Meyrick hotel in Galway, I had my first experience of a freebie solely because I had just tipped over 55 years old. The hotel pointed out I could now benefit from their “golden years” package, knocking quite a bit off the price. Meanwhile at my gym, I now qualify for a low-cost deal because I’m over 55. And in a few years’ time I get the big one: the TfL pass giving free 24-hour travel over the city’s entire transport network.
I shall continue to benefit from sizeable tax relief on my pension contributions – worth far more to older people like me on higher salaries, as I obtain 40% tax relief, while young people on smaller salaries get just 20% relief. I also benefit from Isa tax relief as I can afford to save when young people can’t. Then there is the juiciest of all tax reliefs: no capital gains tax when I sell my home – while Generation Rent grimly hand half or more of their take-home pay to landlords.
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Oldies are pampered. We should offer a new deal to the young | Patrick Collinson https://t.co/NZ8D6xbNku Solicitors & Estate Agents In One Just £899 + vat .. https://t.co/eLmKfiYyW9 (via Twitter http://twitter.com/conveyandmove/status/1091595854329331717)
Let’s move to Anglesey/Ynys Môn, Wales: ‘A world apart’ https://t.co/l2msoMxRmU Solicitors & Estate Agents In One Just £899 + vat .. https://t.co/eLmKfiYyW9
Let’s move to Anglesey/Ynys Môn, Wales: ‘A world apart’ https://t.co/l2msoMxRmU Solicitors & Estate Agents In One Just £899 + vat .. https://t.co/eLmKfiYyW9 (via Twitter http://twitter.com/conveyandmove/status/1091378527138648072)
Let’s move to Anglesey/Ynys Môn, Wales: ‘A world apart’
This thriving crucible for contemporary Welshness offers fantastic views, sandy coves and relative isolation
What’s going for it? Ynys Môn likes to keep its distance, as well it might. People have long come to these shores to take things. The Romans slogged all the way from the Med, sniffing out Anglesey’s raw materials. Nowadays, second-homers come in search of its views, sandy coves and relative isolation. Thomas Telford’s beautiful Menai suspension bridge may have long leapt over the tricky waters of the strait, and its neighbour, the Britannia Bridge, carries mainline trains chuffing off to the ferries at Holyhead; but the island still has a sense of a world apart. Its distance has kept even those savage incomers, grey squirrels, at bay. Ynys Môn has thriving colonies of red squirrels, and so many puffins it’s named an island after them. The greatest survivor, though? Welsh culture. Today, about 70% of islanders speak Welsh and make sure the island is a thriving crucible of contemporary Welshness.
The case against If you are going to move here, move here; don’t pillage. Wylfa nuclear power plant was proposed for the north, but has just been scrapped. Following the closure of its aluminium smelting industry a decade ago, the local economy needs some good news.
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Let’s move to Anglesey/Ynys Môn, Wales: ‘A world apart’
This thriving crucible for contemporary Welshness offers fantastic views, sandy coves and relative isolation
What’s going for it? Ynys Môn likes to keep its distance, as well it might. People have long come to these shores to take things. The Romans slogged all the way from the Med, sniffing out Anglesey’s raw materials. Nowadays, second-homers come in search of its views, sandy coves and relative isolation. Thomas Telford’s beautiful Menai suspension bridge may have long leapt over the tricky waters of the strait, and its neighbour, the Britannia Bridge, carries mainline trains chuffing off to the ferries at Holyhead; but the island still has a sense of a world apart. Its distance has kept even those savage incomers, grey squirrels, at bay. Ynys Môn has thriving colonies of red squirrels, and so many puffins it’s named an island after them. The greatest survivor, though? Welsh culture. Today, about 70% of islanders speak Welsh and make sure the island is a thriving crucible of contemporary Welshness.
The case against If you are going to move here, move here; don’t pillage. Wylfa nuclear power plant was proposed for the north, but has just been scrapped. Following the closure of its aluminium smelting industry a decade ago, the local economy needs some good news.
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