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Our house was built in 1968 it's termed a Dorma style House as the upstairs bedrooms have sloped ceilings that follow the steep angle of the roof. There was very little rafter insulation - just a thin layer of fiber board - I had insulated the loft rafters with Kingspan type insulation. Our modern condensing boiler was new in 2016.- we retained a hot water tank - I think it's known as a fully pumped system. No mains pressure radiators or hot water by choice.

Following our house fire in November 2017 it was rebuilt to comply with the building control regulations that applied in 2018 so we gained 50 mm Kingspan to the full length of the rafters plus an extra 50 mm Kingspan with attached plaster board to the bedroom walls. Slight downside was we lost about 4 inches off the bedroom widths plus some loss of height on the sloping roof - no biggie as the bedrooms are a good size.

Due to this insulated dome effect our bedrooms are very warm in the summer with a huge ceiling fan a must. In the winter all upstairs radiators are off - even without any upstairs heating its generally 72-78 F. Due to my heart condition I prefer the downstairs rooms to be a minimum of 74 F - I wear three layers of upper clothing to be comfortable.

We will never move from our current home. I have neither the funds nor the inclination to go for any sort of heat pump as there would be no economic return to make it viable. Likewise an all EV is just a joke for most older folk   imho. 

The lathes were all part of the on site maintenance back in the day.
It was a Unitary Local Facility back in the Victorian era.
They even had a bath house in the main pump building basement where the workers family were allowed 2 hours a week to use the facility.
There used to be tied workers cottages close by for all the employees.

EV's it's like HMG pushing us into diesel engines a couple of decades ago only on a much bigger scale.

Heat Pumps - another nightmare for the future when they ban gas boilers.

Top floor view of beam should give video if you click on picture.

.top floor by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

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steam is coming through by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

Paid a visit with a mate to a Steaming Day at a very local Pumping Station at Clay Mills near Burton-upon-Trent.

I will post a short video clip when I have worked out how - the virtual tour does not do the place justice.

.http://www.claymills.org.uk/

My simplistic view is that labeling an EV as Zero Emissions is being in denial that you have just moved the exhaust pipe from vehicle to power generator. No account is taken of environmental impact of battery production. If all our electricity was generated from Hydro, Wind & Solar fair enough.
As for nuclear the contaminated cooling water from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster is estimated to take approximately 20- 30 or more years to process. The water is being  dumped into the ocean as the level of contaminants including Tritium & other radionuclides is at background levels when diluted with sea water.