Home insulation

Botched insulation scheme was 'doomed to fail', say MPs

Installers should be investigated by the Serious Fraud Office, an influential parliamentary committee has said.

The technology helps identify heat leaks, allowing people to take steps to save energy.

A woman whose home flooded during works carried out by a now-folded company says she is trying to rebuild her life.

Mr and Mrs Wadley's 19-year-old son has asthma and cannot come home for Christmas due to mould all over the walls.

Riva Surveyors Ltd and its manager are sentenced for targeting "vulnerable" homeowners.

Scientists based in Alaska are exploring how to turn the root-like part of a mushroom - mycelium - into insulating materials.

Wall insulation installed under two separate schemes was supposed to keep residents warm and dry, but instead left some homes damp and mouldy

David Barlow has lived in his damp and mould-ridden leasehold home since November 2023.

The couple say they live "like hoarders buried alive" as a row over substandard insulation persists.

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