Well shiver me timbers (literally), turns out most of our rental homes in Australia are too darn cold for safe living. My teeth are chattering, my bones feel like tiny toothpicks submerged in Arctic water and my feet haven’t had circulation since the summer of 1997 — the bad news is I’m not the only one apparently.
If any of those icy descriptions of my current state apply to you as well, I’m sorry to say but you’ve got a home that’s too cold for living.
Better Renting has released their report aptly titled “Cold and Costly“. No, it isn’t a research paper into the cost of ice creams in Bondi, but a serious look at how cold Aussie homes get in winter.
More than 70 homes were investigated across every state and territory and the main finding was that Aussie rentals turn into iceboxes too quickly.
According to the World Health Organisation