> In conclusion, according to a report from the European Commission dating from 2021, PEBs in Europe are not reliable and they are moreover inconsistent. But despite this, Belgium continues to apply it and imposes it more and more. According to the authorities, PEBs are in fact useful, even if they can be improved…
In this article there are 2 main issues why this isn’t reliable
1. It changes per region (here a C means a B somewhere else) …. isn’t this logical? The goal is for people to get an idea of local differences. Otherwise, you would have complete provinces with all A+, just bzcause the rest of Belgium is that bad. It’s an extreme example, but it sketches the idea
2. Failure to prove a better thing means not having the thing … with all “geschoemel” in the construction sector, i feel I don’t need to explain why this should be the case
Don’t get me wrong, there are way better methods. But I hope with another method the things above would be taken into account
The previous owner of our house was supposedly a roofer, and we were told he insulated the roof himself. Cool for us at the moment we bought it, and noticing the temperature in high summer or deep in winter, we can believe that there is something in there. Even roofers we hired to do work on our chimneys told us they were pretty sure the roof was completely insulated.
Only problem: no proof AT ALL. No idea at what level it is insulated, what material was used, how well it was done,… And we have nowhere we can see it, since it’s a flat roof we’d either have to make a hole in our ceiling, or in the roofing.
When we bought it, the EPC certificate we got said “sure, we were told the roof has insulation”. I’m pretty sure that if we try to sell it any time soon, we’ll get a worse EPC, just because we can’t “prove” that it’s insulated! Goddamned DIYers, man.
It’s mandatory when you want to sell your house so, whether it’s correct or not is a moot point
they should make a standardised test where they heat the house for a certain amount above the outside temperature and then calculate with the energy put in and the time it takes to cool back down after turning off the heating.
they should also do it at night to remove the solar input.
or something like that…
Nope
story time: i sold a house where the back door was missing. like, it was just some plastic sheeting.
energy level: C
yeah… right.
they just fill in some parameters in an excel, which gives a bit of an idea but they don’t take in to account draflevels at all. which is very important for your confortlevel en energy bill
Het is geen HIV virus, het is geen PDF formaat en het is ook geen EnergiePrestatieCertificaat-certificaat.
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> In conclusion, according to a report from the European Commission dating from 2021, PEBs in Europe are not reliable and they are moreover inconsistent. But despite this, Belgium continues to apply it and imposes it more and more. According to the authorities, PEBs are in fact useful, even if they can be improved…
In this article there are 2 main issues why this isn’t reliable
1. It changes per region (here a C means a B somewhere else) …. isn’t this logical? The goal is for people to get an idea of local differences. Otherwise, you would have complete provinces with all A+, just bzcause the rest of Belgium is that bad. It’s an extreme example, but it sketches the idea
2. Failure to prove a better thing means not having the thing … with all “geschoemel” in the construction sector, i feel I don’t need to explain why this should be the case
Don’t get me wrong, there are way better methods. But I hope with another method the things above would be taken into account
The previous owner of our house was supposedly a roofer, and we were told he insulated the roof himself. Cool for us at the moment we bought it, and noticing the temperature in high summer or deep in winter, we can believe that there is something in there. Even roofers we hired to do work on our chimneys told us they were pretty sure the roof was completely insulated.
Only problem: no proof AT ALL. No idea at what level it is insulated, what material was used, how well it was done,… And we have nowhere we can see it, since it’s a flat roof we’d either have to make a hole in our ceiling, or in the roofing.
When we bought it, the EPC certificate we got said “sure, we were told the roof has insulation”. I’m pretty sure that if we try to sell it any time soon, we’ll get a worse EPC, just because we can’t “prove” that it’s insulated! Goddamned DIYers, man.
It’s mandatory when you want to sell your house so, whether it’s correct or not is a moot point
they should make a standardised test where they heat the house for a certain amount above the outside temperature and then calculate with the energy put in and the time it takes to cool back down after turning off the heating.
they should also do it at night to remove the solar input.
or something like that…
Nope
story time: i sold a house where the back door was missing. like, it was just some plastic sheeting.
energy level: C
yeah… right.
they just fill in some parameters in an excel, which gives a bit of an idea but they don’t take in to account draflevels at all. which is very important for your confortlevel en energy bill
Het is geen HIV virus, het is geen PDF formaat en het is ook geen EnergiePrestatieCertificaat-certificaat.