Sentence examples for difficult to retrofit from inspiring English sources

"It's very difficult to retrofit existing structures, so I'd think pragmatically, and talk to your neighbor and try to resolve it," Mr. Cooley said.

Ground source heat pumps need to be installed underground and tend to cover a wide area, which makes them difficult to retrofit, particularly in urban areas, so installing them in new houses is easier.

Since it is usually difficult to retrofit the existing roof structure, a solid wall can be considered to capture the expected snow transport on the upper roof.

Nevertheless, these requirements for redundancy and parallelism needed to be taken into account early in the design and coding of the application because they are difficult to retrofit at a later stage.

Once finalized, it can be difficult to retrofit websites to improve accessibility.

And it's very hard to retrofit security".

"It's a lot more difficult to be able to retrofit a building".

And, Mr. Hartley said, even some of those who consider installing a central vacuum system hesitate because of a misconception that it is very difficult, and quite expensive, to retrofit such a system in an existing house.

But where the Trust in Wales scores highest, is in developing and then trying to share information with the public on the best ways to retrofit older, "difficult" properties which the energy companies shun and which ordinary householders find expensive and laborious to tackle.

But they are finding it difficult to find a contractor willing to retrofit their home without tearing it apart first.

Western strategies of urban greenspace provision are difficult to implement or retrofit in most Asian cities, commonly constrained by a high-density compact form.