Energy Efficiency

Your House Has a GPA, And You’re Probably Failing: An Epic Tale of Two Energy Report Cards

A whimsical, Wait But Why style stick-figure-esque cartoon of a house. The house has a face and looks exhausted. It's using a giant straw to suck money (dollar bills and euro coins) out of a giant, sweating wallet that is lying on the ground. The scene should be simple, with a white background, conveying the idea of a home being an "energy guzzler" in a funny, exaggerated way.

Let’s talk about your house. Not the nice bits, like the comfy sofa or that one patch of wall you painted that doesn’t look completely terrible. Let’s talk about its deep, dark secret: its drinking problem. Your house is an energy addict. It guzzles electricity and gas like a stressed-out student chugging coffee during finals Your House Has a GPA, And You’re Probably Failing: An Epic Tale of Two Energy Report Cards

Why Dublin houses are so, so cold

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The answer, my friend, is that your house is probably a time traveller. And not in a cool, Doctor Who kind of way. It’s stuck in a different era, an era before we understood that heat was a precious, fleeting thing that shouldn’t be allowed to escape into the atmosphere like a startled pigeon. Most of Dublin’s houses are like this. They are beautiful, character-filled, leaky historical artefacts that we happen to live in. And they are absolutely terrible at their one main job: keeping the warm stuff in and the cold stuff out.