[1] 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.
[2] Due to a shortage of bricks, boot houses were built using precast reinforced clinker-concrete columns.
[3] 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.
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