Soon after Lyndsey Kavanagh and her husband bought their first house together around three years ago, they realised it was 'absolutely freezing'. Aesthetically, the Edwardian semi-detached house in Swinton did not require any work – but it was so cold, the couple wore coats indoors during the winter.
"We had a baby on the way," she said. "I didn't want to live in a house that was so cold.
"We would have had to move because it was really unbearable. But we hadn't been in the house that long and the thought of moving out and wasting money on it… we thought we'd rather put the money into the house."
