[Dale1]

I'd love to see these British houses with "No thermostat and you can't control anything".

Every house i've ever lived in has has not just a main thermostat but most have thermostatic vales on the radiators too!

I'm 31 now and have lived in lots of houses both brand new and old victorian. They do realise it's customary to modernise older houses after a while don't they? Maybe not!

Talk about inventing a a problem that no one actually has!!!

[andrewingram]

I've been renting in London for the last 7 years, and in 7 different flats. Roughly half of those places had thermostats, and they were usually poorly placed. In all but one of the houses, the valves on the radiators had been removed (the handles at least), so it was pretty much impossible to control the temperature room-by-room. Have one flatmate who likes a cold room and another who likes a hot room? Tough luck.