Energy Retrofit vs New Home Build - What's More Cost Effective? | Ask Casey Grey

Welcome to another episode of Ask Casey Grey. This week we continue with questions from Vanessa, a student at Algonquin College. She asked "have you ever had an instance where an energy retrofit has come close to the cost of a new, energy efficient build of similar quality".

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[jhornett]

Hi Casey, this is a great question on an important topic. Is possible for you to go through examples of both new and retrofits showing some of the different factors that affect costs?

Thanks for the information.