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The government has decided to revise its copy on the energy performance diagnosis. Some homes, especially those before 1975, were classified as very energy intensive due to errors. All this had to be corrected as of November 1.
The energy performance diagnosis has become a real headache for people wishing to sell or rent their property. With the DPE implemented since last July, the evaluation of diagnosticians is much more picky. “What will penalize is the fact that a bathroom window does not have shutters. It is considered that, for summer comfort, it is necessary to have shutters everywhere. It is a criterion that has been added“, plague Guy Barta, director of Paris 13 expertise.
This anomaly detected by Guy Barta does lower the overall rating of the DPE, which makes the apartment cheaper. However, she is not the only one. Other errors were noted by this diagnostician. “This new calculation overestimates certain points inside the system which ultimately results in a letter which is worse“, he explains. In total, nearly 400,000 energy diagnostics were realized since July.