Can you ask Dermot, please, about the possible for eco-heating during an electricity outage? Do heat pumps depend on electricity? What length of time would we be OK for heat without electricity?

Well, OK, if you've got a heat pump in and your house is well insulated, you're not going to lose the heat.

Do you remember the old 1970s houses? You turned off the heat and 20 minutes later the house was freezing, it was baltic again.

If your house is insulated and the electricity goes, yes, your heat pump has run through electricity, but so are a lot of boilers.

It's pumped by electricity and people don't realise that.

That's right, take care of the kerosene tank.

No, you need something to spark it up and all and keep it going.

My question is, what window frame colour would Dermot recommend? Taking face and soffit boards into account, has black charcoal anthracite had its day? Asked

And like, how do you get inspired as a kid to become an architect? Where does it all begin?

What was my first detour? Actually, I always kind of go back to this, but I think it had a massive effect on me.

When I was a kid, I was uprooted from suburban Dublin, from Malahide, and we moved to Cairo.

My dad was working out there.

What it did was, I kind of went from being a kid in a community to being a complete outsider because I didn't speak the language.

So I was observing all the time.

So every train journey I went on, I couldn't understand anybody.

You've never done this before,

You're passionate about it, isn't it?

Well, I just, I suppose, look, a lot of things are very subjective.

They're very you, what you need in your house.

And I suppose what people don't talk about, it's the last conversation that doesn't happen because you can't feel it on Instagram, right, is heat and how warm a house is and how cosy a house is.

And we were, and I'm going back to this, I probably shouldn't give you, but like, The house was so cold that I was in on Tuesday that she had to go to bed at seven o'clock because she couldn't sit downstairs.

It was that cold.

And it's like that's all up and down the country.

I'm wondering what's the difference between double and triple glazing apart from the prices?