Boot houses were houses built in the United Kingdom after World War I to accommodate the housing boom following the war. They were named after Henry Boot, whose construction company (Henry Boot Limited), produced an estimated 50,000 houses between the end of World War I and the start of World War II. Due to a shortage of bricks, boot houses were built using precast reinforced clinker-concrete columns. Structural tests in the 1980s revealed significant deterioration in the concrete as a result of carbonatation. The Housing Act 1985 provided government grants for homeowners of such "defective" houses.
See also
- Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919
- Pre-fab and no-fines house - solutions to the housing crisis following World War II
- Public housing
References
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Wellings, Fred (2006). British Housebuilders: History and Analysis. Blackwell Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-4051-4918-1. 978-1-4051-4918-1 ↩
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