1930s semi detached house here (looks like this, I don’t think there is a feasible way to get air con in here to be honest. You can’t dig out underneath, you can’t put in forced air unless you gut the place. If there are any HVAC people here who know better please let me know!

Our biggest problem is we have 3m (10ft in freedom units) wide bay windows. They were built for solar gain when it used to be cold, which basically now makes it a greenhouse. I think we’d have to replace the whole bay, top and bottom, build it out and then make the windows much smaller.

Other things I’m considering but not sure if they would work? Exterior insulation, and painting the building white, and getting rid of our inherited tarmac driveway and making it more green/gravelly so the heat doesn’t reflect back into the house. But it is going to cost tens of thousands and most people don’t have that and landlords will care even less.

My parents live in a 1700s stone construction cottage with 2ft thick walls, and it didn’t get above 22C yesterday. So maybe we’ll just give up here and buy something similar?