Musings

It’s a familiar story, isn’t it? A well-intentioned policy, a massive government scheme, and a catastrophic failure of execution. The BBC’s recent expose on 30,000 homes blighted by “botched insulation”…

Most of us think of pollution as something that happens outside. Traffic, smoke, factories. Yet the air indoors is often more polluted than the air on the street. That is…

Most people never think about ventilation until something goes wrong. Mould on the walls. Condensation on the windows. A wheeze in the chest that doesn’t quite go away. Regulations such…

The Home That ‘Can’t’ Breathe 🌬️🏠 We’ve been taught to love efficiency. Airtightness is the gold standard for modern homes, a badge of honour for anyone trying to save a…

We’ve built ourselves into a peculiar paradox. In our race to create energy-efficient homes, we’ve inadvertently designed buildings that trap us in a miasma of our own making. The modern…

Have you ever walked into a space and instantly thought, “This feels like home”? Or perhaps the opposite—entered a perfect-looking house that somehow felt… soulless? I have a confession to…

The Hidden World of Indoor Living Imagine this: you wake up, brew coffee in your kitchen, commute to work, spend hours in an office, grab lunch at a café, return…

The Invisible Enemy in Plain Sight Picture this: You’re a tenant in a 1930s terrace. Your child’s asthma worsens every winter. Black speckles bloom on the bedroom wall like a…

The “Boiling Frog” Phenomenon: Why We Ignore Mould Until It’s Too Late Humans are terrible at reacting to slow-moving threats. Mould doesn’t explode like a gas leak—it creeps. By the…