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Oh I'm sorry, I just assumed because really old houses were just wood and gypsum with no insulation lol
Some of them are. And no paper for a moisture/wind barrier too I think.
But those, I think, were less about insulation and warmth and more about ease of construction and plain exposure to the elements.
E.g. not great but good enough. But now we have wood, etc and insulation and I was musing that maybe the reason why stone/brick homes didn’t was because they worked well enough.
I wouldn't doubt if it's just good enough and it's expensive to add the insulation to old buildings let alone stone/brick ones. But I'm not going to pretend I understand what life in Britain is like or what homes are generally like when I've never been. I was going to say that buildings might be substantially older but honestly I don't know how old the average home is in Britain, most people could live in something made in the 70's or newer like here in the US.