Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Solar Panels 1 Year Later - What I WISH I Knew" video.

  1. We use on average around 5800kw per year in our house in the UK. The funny thing is, we went on an energy saving drive around 2 decades ago, basically, reducing our energy use as much as realistically possible, but without changing our lifestyle, we managed to cut our energy use in half and in fact, we actually use more tech gadgets around the house. There are other areas we can do to reduce our energy, but these are much bigger expenses and something we'll do when the time is right. Also, during the summer when Putin invaded Ukraine, we went on a massive insulation job to insulated the house for winter, to our surprise, it's remarkable how well it works, so much so that we rarely need heating at all and the house feels comfortable at -5C outside, which is a major improvement over what we had, the other benefit of this is that, even when you do put the heating on, you only need it on for around an hour and it's enough to keep the house warm for half the day. We did do a mistake when it comes to summer, it can get quite hot upstairs, whereas downstairs is fine, and we've kinda got used to it, but we are planning on looking into solutions to reduce the outside heat from getting in. All in all, I'm very happy with the results and even thought I know over the long run, our energy use will go up because of electric cars and heat pumps, we could reduce the energy bill a lot with solar. In any case, my advice to anyone, try and get your house so you rarely need to use heating or cooling to feel comfortable, that's probably going to save you a lot of money over the long run, but the cost to do so will depend on your house, in our case, it didn't cost too much but some house can cost a lot more to do that.
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