“Pellets are a false good idea, now you have to cut down trees to produce them and it costs an arm and a leg”: the bristling stove

On should have known that something was going on this summer when people on their towels at the beach were exchanging advice about heat pumps and pellet stoves before recovering from Sun cream. The movement was confirmed with the fall in temperatures: climate crisis and increase in the price of energy oblige, all equipped with individual heating now have conversations with plumbers and heating engineers. The arrival of Linky meters and other connected devices has contributed to this increase in skills: with your eyes riveted on the electricity consumption table in real time, you can indulge in all kinds of heating and “ disconnection to draw good or bad conclusions. Between pellet hair and scratching stove, now in the winter of 2022, to create links, we no longer wonder how things are but how we warm ourselves.

How do we recognize them?

They are still surprised by their new knowledge. In the past twelve months, they have received or given more than once The endless world (Dargaud), the comic strip by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain, and they too now talk about their “energy mix”. They did not think that one day they would follow the price of fuel like others the price of bitcoin. They talk about the advice of their heating plumber like that of their shrink (“He told me it was not the right time”). When the price of granule soared, they thought back to when, after buying a Nespresso coffee maker, they found they were going to have to order overpriced pods online. Even those who vote for the right have quasi-communist arguments for controlling the price of pellets. Once equipped with a heat pump or a pellet boiler, they absorb the accumulated information by providing equipment advice to everyone around them. They use a possessive article before the words “installer” or “heating engineer”.

how they talk

“Even last year, I didn’t know that at an altitude of 800 meters, the heat pump was not a good idea. » “Parisians, when they arrive in the countryside, they want something that burns. They want the smell and the crackle, but they don’t know it doesn’t get hot if you move 2 meters away. “Pellets are a false good idea, now you have to cut down trees to produce them and that costs an arm and a leg. “A wood-burning fireplace is too much work during the day. » “I sent them my stove fitter. » “I have a friend in the Perche who participates in a group purchase of fuel. » “If I program my pellet stove from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., wake up at 7 and leave at 8, it avoids starting the boiler. » “The pellets are made 100 kilometers from here, don’t tell me that it was the war in Ukraine that caused their price to rise! » “If I co-opt a new client, the wood stove installer offers me a case of wine. » “When I told them that I was heating with oil, I had the impression of announcing that my husband had abandoned me with young children. »

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