Manuela: ”With the block thermically insulated, the winter seemed less cold. Even during summer, the insulation helps to keep the heat out.” Bucharest, Romania
Manuela’s words are telling: many of the Bucharest participants were indeed very happy to be living in insulated blocks of flats. These blocks had been refurbished thanks to a program of thermic insulation supported by both local and European funds. As part of this complex process of thermic rehabilitation, the buildings’ walls were covered with polystyrene and painted with new colours. The external doors were changed and old wood and glass windows were replaced with new windows made of thermopan. Even the windows and doors of communal spaces — such as the corridor leading to the garbache chute — were thrown away and replaced.
