Brits don’t have hvac, furnaces or central air. The climate does not justify the expense.
That’s why so many Brits bought winter homes in Spain.
Brits don’t have hvac, furnaces or central air. The climate does not justify the expense.
Not to mention their wretched health system.
I wonder how many of these victims died whilst waiting to see a practitioner? Or, flat put off the dreaded days long wait to be seen in an “E”R?
That’s my understanding, and the elderly and presumably vulnerable frequently die from hypothermia.
However, they do use fireplace with coal, gas, or electric heat.
When I lived in Wroughton, UK the flat had one electric heater that required shillings in a meter to heat the rooms.
Unless you stayed in the sitting room the temp in winter time was a cool 55 degrees.
I see your point. We’ve watched lots of Brit TV. They have fire places, often more than one. Where Americans had pot bellied stoves, then the more modern wood burners and of course modern HVAC systems.
Point being, we tried a fire place once in a new home. Practically no heat unless we choked the chimney, then we had smoke in the house. We now have a modern wood burner, and the same amount of wood we wasted in a fireplace will literally roast us out.
Funny the Brits haven’t caught on.
“Brits don’t have hvac, furnaces or central air. The climate does not justify the expense.”
Do they have blankets?
Eskimos live in igloos and they don’t die from the cold in houses made of ICE.
I call BS on this story. FAKE NEWS.
48,000 dead Brits might disagree with those economics ... if they could.