“I have for sale an 18th century castle of 1600 m². If you change the 50 windows, it loses all its cachet
,” explains Patrice Besse, head of a national network specializing in the sale of character buildings.
Olivier de Chabot, general manager of the Mercure group, follows in his footsteps:
“Insulating buildings dating from before 1900 from the outside is heresy.
If you have decorative elements, you are not going to dismantle them, the risk being to denature the good.
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Therefore, the energy renovation of a property of character, like the 40,000 castles in France, becomes a real headache.
"The castles are full of asbestos and lead
," says Patrice Besse.
These handicaps are all the more problematic as energy renovation is taken more and more seriously by individuals.
“The energy performance diagnosis (DPE) has become important, whereas not long ago it was treated out of hand”
, assures…
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