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Energy got incredibly expensive. I live in a very small, well insulated house (good), but it's heated with electricity as resistive heat (not good). So no heat pumps (which would be good again).

I happen to be able to see how much it costs me to heat it. It's not particularly cold at the moment and it's between 7 and 10 € every day! So calling it 1000€ for a month in winter isn't far off.

Now if you have a larger house, or bad (or even no) insulation, even if you're heating with some fuel that's cheaper per kWh, it'll still add up to at least similar if not higher numbers. Not hard to imagine that's quickly too much for many people...

@Melchior@feddit.org and @e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de

I did look up our loan options and we were denied for two reasons:

1. We have one chronic utilities non-payer in the hose and another one chronic late payer

2. The house is made out of wood and thus is considered as high risk.

I know people don't like to hear it but, assuming you and your neighbours collectively own the house, taking out a loan for a renovation like this isn't the worst idea. Might be a massive headache though.

As the article says, this problem has several layers.

We have also energy problem in my apartment in Riga. State offers us something like 70000€ to insulate our 120 year old hause. The catch is, me and my neighbors have to pull that money together, do the renovation and after the fact we are reimbursed. But dude. Who has such money laying around!?

The fuck? For real?