Comments for Welcome to the Great British Refurb Campaign! at http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:33:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/1-welcome-to-the-great-british-refurb-campaign#comment-23 Interesting response Big Green Giant. Check out our reasoning here: http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/29-lets-get-a-few-things-straight . By the way - I hope you're having a pop at Bono as well - for appearing on video at the Tory conference yesterday! Does that make him a Blue? ;-) - John Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:43:38 +0100 http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/1-welcome-to-the-great-british-refurb-campaign#comment-20 Kevin is blue not green![b][/b] Kevin McCloud sports green credentials that would make most of us turn a lovely shade of red for being so yellow. However it was shocking today to see a well-recognised TV presenter 'reporting' on the Conservative Party Conference. An ingenious act of association by Sky TV and the Conservative Party to claim green credentials when they in fact oppose Kyoto and are well-documented for being in cahoots with the UK housebuilding cartels. Should we now assume that the Grand Tour is a holiday brochure for Tory grandees? Or that architecture is in fact for the powerful? Is Sky blue the new magnolia, Kevin? If Jamie Oliver was abruptly dropped by the BBC for his endorsement of Sainsburys', should we not see Kevin's move to the right as a similar affront to good taste? I for one will not be watching him any more and urge others to consider urgently their choice. - Big Green Giant Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:37:40 +0100 http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/1-welcome-to-the-great-british-refurb-campaign#comment-6 We live in one of the 26 million energy-guzzling homes and have done all the "easy" things. We now have to renovate, involving: 1) dismantling suspended and solid floors/flat roofs and reinsulating, 2) replacing uninsulated extension with fully insulated, 3) move boiler and shorten pipe runs. Some of this work involves taking out NEW (2001) flooring and pipework. It's bad enough having to pay VAT on all the materials and labour. It's farcical that there is VAT on the insulating materials and the labour costs of taking the house apart to get the insulation in! In addition we have to get planning permission pay for cost of notices in the press, and pay for BRegs approval. As work (and income) has dried up this last nine months, these taxes and additional costs are really putting us off. The government is not making it easy to retrofit energy-saving measures. After the banking crisis and expenses scandal, it really galls us to have to pay the Chacellor 20% for materials and labour!! - Robert Willan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:08:52 +0100 http://www.greatbritishrefurb.co.uk/1-welcome-to-the-great-british-refurb-campaign#comment-2 Hi, It's my first time here on the GBRefurb site and the first time I've heard about it. I do now feel the pressure to insulate my home. My home was built in 1901 and still has the original single pane glass and wooden windows, I love them, and they are easier and cost less to maintain than plastic ones but will they last much longer? Will i return home one day to find them taken out and replaced with plastic? Where do i stand in this campaign with the windows I'd like to keep? - graham howe Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:49:03 +0100