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Simplified heat sliders - households - #4775

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This PR simplifies the input sliders for the housing stock and heat demand for houses.

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  • Created new households sliders
  • Removed the existing households input
  • Changed the insulation sliders for households to be a reduction in % instead of the typical heat demand in kWh/m2

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jort-wolda requested a review from mabijkerk August 11, 2026 15:17
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Ready for final review @mabijkerk.

@@ -182,12 +180,9 @@ en:
title: Heat demand & insulation

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We need to update these to be in line with the buildings as well, so refer to "Insulation" etc.

Comment thread config/locales/en_etm.yml
insulation_terraced_houses: "Typical heat demand terraced houses"
insulation_semi_detached_houses: "Typical heat demand semi-detached houses"
insulation_detached_houses: "Typical heat demand detached houses"
housing_stock_number_of_residences: "Number of new residences"

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These come across as quite long:

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I would stay closer to those for Buildings, so something like: Construction, Construction per type, Demolition per construction period - or simply Demolition should be enough since the 'per period' is implied?

Comment thread config/locales/en_etm.yml
price_dependent: "willingness-to-pay"
temperature_dependent: "temperature"
per_residence_space_heating: "%"
households_insulation: "%"

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For Buildings, this says "Change". This needs to be aligned:

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households_number_of_semi_detached_houses_1965_1984:
title: 1965 - 1984
description: |
This slider sets the number of new residences that are expected to be built. The sliders

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This sounds a bit weird. Why 'expected'?

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