Do you know the Housing Information Booklet? Better known by its acronym CIL, it must now be issued when the new house construction. It will also be edited or completed during the building an extension or on the occasion of renovations energy on a house already built. Its role: to centralize all the information to know about the accommodation to transmit it from owner to owner.
The Housing Information Booklet: new obligation for owners
The CIL is created and completed by the owner
The CIL was created as part of the Climate and Resilience LawIt must be established by the owner of a new house (but all new housing is concerned) or during the construction of an extension for which the building permit or prior declaration has been filed since January 1, 2023. It must also be created if you have work carried out renovations energy since that date.
What is CIL?
The CIL is a digital or paper file which centralizes all the information concerning the energetic performance of his accommodation. Containing multiple information on the construction, works and installations of equipment carried out since, it is in some way the home health record, but also a memory aid, passed down from owner to owner.
What is the purpose of the Housing Information Booklet?
The CIL is of great use to homeowners. Indeed, a home, its materials and its equipment, age over time and occasionally require renovations and maintenance to maintain initial performance. Over the course of successive changes of owners, the house changes and sometimes essential information is lost. Forcing owners to centralize and transmit these elements thus makes it possible to certify the energy status of the house, to facilitate the interventions of building professionals, and therefore to reduce work to a minimum or to anticipate other work.
How to create the housing information booklet?
It is up to the owner to establish and update the Housing Information Booklet. This primarily involves centralizing and collecting information in the form of your choice (computer file, paper folder, cardboard file containing all the elements, etc.). To help you, the government provides a housing information booklet template.
New house and CIL: what must the builder provide?
To establish the Housing Information Booklet, the owner must collect various documents which will be provided to him by the builder.
This concerns:
Plans and instructions
– Surface plans and sections.
– Plans and descriptions of water, electricity, gas and ventilation networks.
– Operating, maintenance and servicing instructions for works and equipment (heating, hot water production, air conditioning).
The list of materials
You will need to provide information on all the materials that make up your exterior partitions and which serve for their insulation as well as their characteristics linked to energy performance.
– Insulation: nature, brand references, thermal characteristics and surface, interface treatment solutions implemented to ensure continuity of insulation and airtightness.
– Characteristics of doors and windows, bay windows opening onto the outside.
To go further, read the article “ High-performance new home: the importance of airtightness »
Documents certifying energy performance
– Certificate of compliance with environmental regulations 2020 (RE2020)
– Certificates of issue of labels or certifications which attest to the energy qualities of your accommodation.
To go further, read the article » New house RE 2020 in the South-West: what consequences for my project? »
Are extensions covered by the Housing Information Booklet?
Like other new constructions, extensions are also concerned. Indeed, as soon as you build and apply for a building permit, you must create a Housing Information Booklet (CIL). All the elements concerning theextension will thus be brought together in the CIL.
Learn more about extension construction by the builder Maisons Sic by reading the article " House extension: expand without moving"
CIL and renovation works
In a house already built, not all work must be mentioned in the CIL. Improvement work is therefore not listed. On the other hand, all work on elements that directly influence the energy consumption of housing and its qualities must be documented. This will involve:
– Thermal insulation (roof, exterior walls, lower floor, changing doors and windows)
– Installation or replacement of heating or cooling systems.
-The installation or replacement of the hot water production system.
-The installation of solar protection…
Housing information booklet (CIL): What documents should be kept during renovation?
Personalized insulation work to maintenance and servicing operations such as chimney sweeping, boiler servicing, etc., many operations must be recorded in this logbook and you must keep proof of this. The company carrying out the work or maintenance must provide certificates of completion of the work: quotes, invoices, etc. They must state:
– The date and description of the work
– The list and characteristics of the materials used
– Operating, maintenance and servicing instructions
The CIL important when reselling
If you have a sale of the house, the owner of the house must provide the CIL to the new buyer no later than the day of signing the deed of sale. The notary thus attests to this transfer in the authentic deed. This document offers more transparency, and reassures the new buyer about the condition of the property he is purchasing.
The CIL promotes high-performance homes
With the CIL, there is no question of cheating. It is an advantage when purchasing, since it allows you to know precisely the work to be carried out and to be able to negotiate accordingly. It also benefits the new houses or renovated to highlight their strong points: houses that are particularly respectful of energy standards and consume very little energy on a daily basis.
So the CIL should not be seen as a constraint. It simply encourages homeowners to aim for energetic performance, to better understand how their home works but also to keep important information to ensure the sustainability of the building and its performance in the long term. Many owners, by storing the papers concerning their accommodation in the same file, already meet the requirements of this new Law.
