Isn't it crazy that you have to turn off your water supply just to change a tap washer? That installing a simple electric cable involves cutting channels in the wall and then redecorating the room? That we live in the worst insulated houses in northern Europe? Bob Symes is fed up with UK home design, which he believes is hopelessly irrational and out-of-date. He has his own house built, specially for Q.E.D., to prove his point.