Bureaucracy at it's finest 🥲

I got an inspection to update the energy label of my apartment today and pointed out there's a lot of draught because the window frames are cracked.

"Sadly that's not part of the calculation. Only the windows themselves count. Even if a window is broken, we have to state what kind used to be there because residents have a right to have that put back in. I've been in homes where the landlord refused to do that, so they've had a 6 ft² hole in their walls for months, but it still counts as being insulated with triple glass."

If homes are energy efficient on paper, that's enough to win the climate battle, right? 🤡

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HumanEarth · 56-60, F

What bullshit

They would love to see my 120 + year old log house we live in.

It has a dirtfloor for basement. Roof leaks, doors don't have seals on them, our heat is from wood and coal. Upstairs part of the house has no heat.

The only plumbing we have is a hand pump for the kitchen sink.

You wanna take bath. Well you better plan it. You have to boil water on the stove or on the fire. because the hot water heater is shot and I ain't wasting money one right now.

That just for starters

NerdyPotato · M

@HumanEarth that wouldn't pass any kind of inspection 😅

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HumanEarth · 56-60, F

And I didn't even open the door for them. I told them to get lost

HootyTheNightOwl

@HumanEarth If you were here, your source of heat would be illegal and the fire brigade will turn up to extinguish your fire.

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

That's against my rights as citizen. The constitution gives me the right to live how I want to live.

That proves we are not a free country. If I can not live how I want to live anywhere in the USA.

HootyTheNightOwl

@HumanEarth We are supposed to be a bunch of "free countries", too - but they're still working on making all coal fires and wood burners illegal... not just the old, less efficient ones but the modern ones that you can throw a few pieces of wood in before bed and it will still be red in the morning - and you only need to empty them once a week.

Problem is that we still have houses in the countryside that only get hot water from having the coal fire lit... and there's no grants to help them to modernise their heating systems.

NerdyPotato · M

@HumanEarth you are allowed to live the way you do in some places, but because it's not allowed everywhere, there is no freedom? 🤣 I'm glad that one's freedom ends where another person's begins. For me it doesn't have to be unlimited to still be considered freedom. 🤷

HumanEarth · 56-60, F

Hooty and there is one of my problems. But I also don't want to modernize. I happy living like its 75 years ago

HootyTheNightOwl

@NerdyPotato To be fair, though, we shouldn't be making laws that take away from the comfort of people's lives - just because it's not good for the environment anymore.

We cleared the smog of London by giving people access to gas and electricity to heat their homes... yet we're clearing carbon emissions by forcing people to boil the kettle to bathe and warm themselves while huddled around inefficient Economy 7 heaters...

NerdyPotato · M

@HootyTheNightOwl some laws go way too far and don't consider a whole bunch of effects indeed.