quartz wrote:I imagine that many of you are lucky (who does not become a little by little) to own a house, and of course you imagine solutions to your level what seems legitimate for me anyway!
Nevertheless, for you gentlemen who probably move you from time to time by car, all these alternative sources of energy (solar voltaic wind) are unworkable on board.
Those who are both renter and owner understand you completely. And besides, we have often been one before being the other ...
There are so many things you can do as a tenant:
improve the thermal insulation and energy efficiency of everything that makes up his home, by simple and inexpensive measures that will also drastically improve the feeling of "comfort" for a given ambient temperature. This also allows
take stock about his current situation by establishing a sort of
state of play of energy efficiency room-by-room, and to list all that can be improved, such as:
1) put profiled joints (sold by the meter, "d" profile which are effective and not the flat ones, cheaper, but which are not!) And put on all the contact, door closing and / or or windows by taking care of them and mainly the landing door which makes big drafts of air on the side of the threshold and even through the locks, including the thresholds where it is sometimes necessary to put an ad hoc threshold like an "L" aluminum profile (in order to seal all around, it is also valid for the rooms inside the habitat, in which one stays little, it is according to). Silcon also carefully (after having cut the current) the sheaths of the electric cables which are real calls for air in all the building ... (each socket and each switch, including household appliances in the kitchen and electric hobs)!
2) plug all air-permeable holes with silicone (and polyurethane foam when cavities are present);
3) attach extruded polystyrene panels to the sprocket wall (if not properly insulated). It's cheap and effective!
4) condemn the ventilation ducts (or in any case put a hermetic closure all the time when they are not used, kitchen, bathroom, stay, etc)
5) to manufacture its own double glazing thanks to sheets of cellophanes (of the type found in florists' shops, since they are totally transparent and can be cut with a small margin all around, and to be sealed with Scotch tape. coachbuilder that we will change once a year)
6) take into account when making adjustments / transformations, such as changing the flooring, acquiring less energy-hungry household appliances, etc .;
7) also, take into account the temperature produced inside the home itself by its own occupants, and the electrical equipment like the computer, all that will improve the situation!
8} generalize the use of LED lamps (I saw that we can replace everything, since there are now even more powerful than 1000watt hallogens, still reserved for construction sites and between 50 and 100 € but prices will go down and it will become accessible to all ...)
9) put timers that allow to stop automatically (without forgetting them) the heating of extra and other electrical devices that we do not use when we are not there ...
10) the question you ask is also a good question to consider when looking for a new home, because indeed, when there is already, there are fewer possibilities ...!
etc ...
All these measures do not require the purchase of PV panels and allow savings or reduce expenses of the order of 50% in some cases!