Summer
August is the month your home tells you the truth about itself.
Whichever rooms are unbearable now are the rooms to plan changes for over the autumn, while the air is still calm.
01 · The house as we find it
3-bed, uninsulated loft, single-glazed rear, gas combi from 2011.
The product, moving
One house. Every visit, a sharper picture.
The same 1930s semi runs through every planner, every guide and every report. Each answer you give thickens the loft, puts panels on the roof, or slides an outdoor unit in beside the kitchen. Nothing you tell us is thrown away.
- 011930s semi
- 02Loft · 270mm
- 03Solar · 4.2 kWp
- 04Heat pump · 8 kW
What we're for
Helping people understand how their home behaves.
Door two
What is bothering you?
Pick the line that sounds most like the room you are sitting in. Each answer starts honestly and works through the cheap fixes before mentioning anything you might buy.
- Start with the problem
Bedroom overheating in summer
- Start with the problem
Loft conversion overheating
- Start with the problem
Conservatory unusable in summer
- Start with the problem
High humidity throughout the house
- Start with the problem
Mould in the bedroom
- Start with the problem
Getting a baby's room to the right temperature
Why this exists
Independent, non-transactional, evidence-linked. Written to help you decide, before anyone tries to sell you anything.
How we workWhat the season is asking of your home.
Not a weather forecast. Quiet observations from across the UK on what tends to need attention right now, and what is worth leaving for later.
- 01
Many UK lofts reach above 35°C in July; far hotter than the rooms below, and the single best argument for shading before cooling.
- 02
Many people assume bedrooms need large air conditioning units. In reality, oversized systems often perform worse; they short-cycle and remove less humidity, leaving the room feeling clammy as well as cold.
- 03
A portable air conditioner makes a room cooler by venting hot air through a hose. That hose is also a hole in your window; and most of the heat the unit removes is the heat that flowed back in through it.
One house, the whole way through
The picture of your home that gets sharper every visit.
Every planner you run rewrites the house beside these words. Insulation thickens, panels appear on the roof, an outdoor unit slides into place. The next recommendation we make uses everything that came before it; the same illustration runs through every guide, every planner and every report you will ever see on Your Home Climate.
A bright June morning, and the upstairs windows are already catching the sun.
Your Home
Build a picture of your home, one assessment at a time.
Your Home is a private, evolving record that lives in your browser. We'll remember what you tell us; no sign-up, no email.
What we know
We'll fill this in as you use the tools; bedrooms, heating system, EPC, region, what's already installed.
Living scorecard
Recommended next step
Take the Home Assessment and we'll surface the change that would shift the most for your home.
Door three
Explore improvements.
Six rooms of thinking behind a comfortable British home. Open the chapter that already sits in your head; the platform reads them as one house, not six separate purchases.
- 01 / 06Heating
A warm house that costs less to run
What the boiler did badly, the heat pump tends to do quietly; we explain how to tell whether your home is ready for the switch, and what to do first if it is not.
Open chapter - 02 / 06Cooling
A bedroom that sleeps at nineteen degrees in August
Cooling rarely needs the whole house. It needs the rooms that overheat first; bedrooms upstairs and the south-facing living room are usually where the discomfort actually lives.
Open chapter - 03 / 06Air quality
A drier bedroom wall in November
Most damp is a ventilation problem wearing a heating disguise. We cover how the air moves through a house, why some rooms struggle to breathe, and what genuinely fixes it.
Open chapter - 04 / 06Energy
A meter that drifts more slowly through the winter
Solar makes the strongest case when the roof, the daytime usage and any future battery or car are read together. We help you decide in what order, if at all.
Open chapter - 05 / 06Performance
The fabric of a calmer home
Insulation and glazing are the things you stop noticing the day after they are installed. They are also the things that quietly make every other decision in the house cheaper.
Open chapter - 06 / 06Controls
A house that knows what to do, and when
Thermostats, zoning and sensors are how your home responds. They only earn their place once the insulation, airtightness and heating system beneath them are doing their job; then they make the whole house feel deliberate.
Open chapter
See also
What a job actually costs
Installed prices written down honestly, with the variation explained, so a quote arriving in your inbox is something you can read with confidence.
Real homes, real decisions
Other people's houses; what they chose to change, what it cost them in the end and what it felt like to live with afterwards.