What’s on the Energy Efficiency poster
A 8-row table: Measure · Cost · Payback.
Rough order of cost-effectiveness for a typical older home.
- Draught-proofing — £ — Fastest
- Loft insulation — ££ — 2–4 years
- Hot water tank jacket — £ — <1 year
- Cavity wall insulation — ££ — 3–5 years
- Thermostat / controls — ££ — 2–5 years
- Double glazing — ££££ — 15–20 years
- Solid wall insulation — £££££ — 20+ years
- Solar PV — ££££ — 8–15 years
The cheapest measures usually have the fastest payback. Do those before anything requiring a loan.
Questions about the Energy Efficiency poster
- What’s on the Energy Efficiency poster?
- A 8-row table: Measure · Cost · Payback. Rough order of cost-effectiveness for a typical older home. Draught-proofing — £ — Fastest; Loft insulation — ££ — 2–4 years; Hot water tank jacket — £ — <1 year; Cavity wall insulation — ££ — 3–5 years; Thermostat / controls — ££ — 2–5 years; Double glazing — ££££ — 15–20 years; Solid wall insulation — £££££ — 20+ years; Solar PV — ££££ — 8–15 years. The cheapest measures usually have the fastest payback. Do those before anything requiring a loan.
- Who is the Energy Efficiency poster for?
- Energy Efficiency belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning property can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Energy Efficiency poster?
- Insulate before upgrading the heating. Heating a leaky house efficiently is still heating a leaky house. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Energy Efficiency belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Energy Efficiency?
- Buying vs Renting, The Cost of Buying and Home Emergencies sit alongside Energy Efficiency in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Buying vs RentingThe Cost of BuyingHome Emergencies
- Is the Energy Efficiency poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Energy Efficiency downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Energy Efficiency poster print at?
- Energy Efficiency is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Energy Efficiency loses nothing.Printing guide
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