To think that houses in the UK should have window shutters on the outside?

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These are standard in many countries and so useful. Keep the heat out, provide extra safety and protection against burglary, help with sleep as it’s easier to have the bedroom properly dark…

Why aren’t they a thing in the UK?

And yes I understand it would be difficult to retrofit them to Victorian houses etc but why aren’t they standard for new builds?

Modern, high quality heat pumps are very cheap to run in well insulated homes. However, the cheap rubbish often installed in standard new builds is generally awful - you get what you pay for.

https://www.msn.com/en-my/news/other/my-new-build-flat-is-unbearably-hot-i-can-t-work-cook-or-sleep-in-it/ar-AA1HXq9l

If it's truly air tight then it should have an MVHR system - ours has a summer bypass facility as well as an optional cooling system. No issues in hot weather and the the same regular air changes.

Our new build came with flooring and carpets, white goods, an EV charger and air source heat pump. Can’t afford solar panels, but I’ve noticed some high volume builders are putting one or two on their houses.

On BBC2 last night there was a programme Heatwave The New Normal and it was mentioned that houses and flats WILL become uninhabitable
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f1gm

I saw it and I'm explaining that emotive programmes such as this are useless if they're not accompanied by the explanations of the modern technologies available to mitigate this.

And are housing associations willing to pay for them??!!

https://hyphenonline.com/2024/09/09/we-feel-suffocated-hot-housing-social-uninhabitable-in-heat-summer/