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Originally Posted by gordian_knot

That's clearly not true, given the hundreds and thousands of buildings that have this cladding, all over the country. Tarting up the outside may have been considered worth doing for its own sake, but the fitting of cladding when renovating buildings as a matter of course has obviously been encouraged by central and local government in order to help reduce carbon emissions and meet emission reduction targets.

If it was for the reason you state, then it wouldn't be so common, nor would it be used in poor areas, when in fact it appears to have been used practically everywhere and on all types of buildings.

The whole point of the cladding is to make the buildings everywhere look better without making any improvements and at low cost. I stand by my original assertion.It looks better so it must be better is the usual perception and misconception.