How To Make Your Home More Self-Sufficient In 2025
In 2025, there’s plenty of accessible ways to make your home more self-sufficient. From small inexpensive changes like reducing food waste, composting or growing your own fruit and veg to investments such as solar panels or a water borehole. There’s no better time to start your journey to being more self-sufficient!
Create your own private water supply
A water borehole is essentially a deep well that accesses groundwater to provide a private water supply into your home. It’s created by drilling down into the earth’s surface and can extract up to 20,000 litres of water per day with no permitting required.
Whilst it may sound disruptive and costly, the borehole drilling process is actually minimally invasive. Dragon Drilling uses compact drilling rigs, can access your garden with minimal space and all that’ll be left behind is a small manhole cover.
There is an upfront cost but a water borehole is a long-term investment. Once installed, your water is supplied free of charge, other than the electricity needed to power the pumps, removing costs to a water supplier each month and potentially saving you thousands of pounds a year.
Heat your home with renewable energy
Dragon Drilling’s borehole drilling services also include ground source heating.
Installing a ground source heat pump into your home provides on average 75% of free renewable energy. It works in a similar way to a water borehole but extracts heat instead of water to fuel your heating and hot water.
They’re suitable for most property types and can even add value to your home when you come to sell. Explore our website to learn more about our borehole drilling services, helping you to be more sustainable and self-sufficient.
Install solar panels
Electricity bills are always increasing, but you could save hundreds of pounds a year by installing solar panels.
Solar panels work by converting sunlight into electricity to run your home. They are an excellent, reliable source of renewable energy and a great investment if you’re looking to be more self-sufficient. Plus, they last over 20 years and add value to your home if you were to sell!
The number of solar panels you’ll need and therefore the cost will depend on each individual home, but it’s definitely worth getting a quote. Our sister company Dragon Renewable Energy can help with all aspects from advice, design, quoting and installation.
There are plenty of other ways you can make your home and lifestyle more self-sufficient in 2025 too, including insulating your home, switching to an electric car and even collecting rainwater.
If you’re thinking of investing in a water borehole or ground source heat pump for your home, speak to us about our borehole drilling services.