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Another five months, huh? Fine, I guess this is something approaching a schedule, at least. I've been tinkering around the edges of the house hanging some pictures and organising my bookshelves, and I've just dug out the corpses of the sunflowers that I grew up the side of the house this year to replace them with daffodil bulbs. But that's not what I want to talk about today.
I've been living in my house (MY house. It's still weird) for about eight months now, and I'm mostly set up and unpacked and starting to think about what changes I want to make to the place. The single-glazing is an obvious target, as is the gas boiler (from a climate-change perspective), but tweaking a thing here and a thing there is never the most effective way to do things. I found myself an architect who specialises in refit and eco-retrofit projects, and set him loose on the house to work out everythin
By "best" here I think I mean "most efficient", both in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and in terms of running costs. The work involved is expensive and time-consuming, so from a pure financial perspective it won't fully pay off for several decades, but I'm not only looking at money. As someone who can afford to do major retrofit work on their house, I want to do the best I can and to absolutely minimise my impact on the environment - in part because I can and in part because not everyone can, and every
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