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Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

It's bigger than solar on houses.

All over Europe, houses have double glazing, proper insulation etc etc.

The percentage of houses with decent insulation in Australia would be in the single digits, why? Well my thought is that we're tight ***** and don't want to pay extra when building, but are seemingly happy to pay through the nose for what could be decades...

A properly insulated and built house should be comfortable inside, even in our hottest cities.

You're spot on, SlamR. The other thing that amazes me is how we ignore what our predecessors learnt in this country. You have a look at all (ok, probably most) of the really old residential buildings, and they have verandas all the way around the house. Even without modern insulation materials, these houses tended to stay cool in the heat and warm in the cool. And yet our modern houses even have very little eave, let alone a veranda, either because we are too tight to pay for the veranda or because we want to maximise the space under the roof line.