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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Anna Tims

‘They encouraged us to insulate our home. Now it’s unmortgageable’

Jim Bunce and his wife Liz had their retirement hopes dashed after installing spray-foam insulation and couldn’t get an equity release mortgage.
Jim Bunce and his wife Liz had their retirement hopes dashed after installing spray-foam insulation and couldn’t get an equity release mortgage. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer

Jim Bunce thought he was doing the right thing for his purse and the planet: in 2022, as fuel costs soared, he and his wife decided to improve the energy efficiency of their house.

They discovered that the government had endorsed spray-foam insulation, a quick and unobtrusive technique by which liquid foam is spray-gunned into roof spaces and walls. Their loft was successfully treated at a cost of £2,800 and their gas bills duly fell.

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