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Interview 5 and 6

person Participants: A couple, and recently hosting a Ukrainian refugee
distance Location: Queen’s Park
apartment Housing type: Terraced house
receipt_long Heating costs: £129

N has measured the room’s hot air using a specific technique (as illustrated below), increased the number of radiators, focussed on individual rooms that he controls using Honeywell, and made use of wall-hanging condensing boiler. 

N is also interested in more community and climate-oriented measures. N founded a solar power cooperative that provides energy to four schools in Brent.

Warmest Memory?

Their daughter is in Norway, where she often leaves the windows open with heating because it is so cheap. D’s childhood memory of warmth winter is of her mum standing in front of the heated oil radiator and lifting her skirt up.

Another warm memory is of Christmas in Cumbria where N’s sister has a wood burning stove, that is perfect for Christmas cosiness.

Coldest Memory?

D’s memory of studying in Sheffield where ice would form on the inside of windows in winter.