July , 2023

Insulate Britain is an environmental activist group founded in July 2021. The group's mission is to see all social housing in the UK adequately insulated to lower gas emissions and improve fuel poverty by 2025, and the remaining housing stock properly insulated by 2030.

Lagging is the more common name used for pipe insulation. It is generally used to help keep the heat in the pipes and to prevent condensation it can also reduce the noise that some pipes may make when in use. It's useful for saving energy as well as preventing pipes from freezing and bursting.

Water pipes will begin to freeze once temperatures have reached zero degrees celsius or below but to freeze they will of needed to exposed to those temperatures for at least a total of six consecutive hours.