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Unsure how to request the sun loungeyou work with the EPC assessor to find the lowest cost way to get it to a D.
If there's no way of getting it there, then you're probably a bit scoobied if you've not got this well covered in your T&Cs. Either removal or a partial refund proportional to the percentage reduction in payback would probably be worst case scenario.
This probably is best discussed in the sun lounge though - are you able to request membership for that?
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detached?My assessor likes to them after we have finished to push the figures up. The place in question has double glazing, loft insulation, cavity wall, thermostat controls, a few low energy lights and a dreaded LPG back boiler. That caught me out. He wants ASHP next year. He can not afford it this year.
eh?EPC scored 34
Something seems wrong with that score to me. Why don't you have another EPC done with a different assessor and re-lodge. With what you have said about the property along with the PV surely it would be a D.
I leave it for the assessor to book in the appointments. I send him the information and install dates and he decides when to turn up. He is young and its his first LPG system on a back boiler. Live and learn the hard way. Told him to do the EPC before the installs last night :6:"Earthstore, why do you jump in with both feet before knowing all the facts."
Sorry Jason. do you remember that quote??
At least mine was only advice, but installing PV without the EPC facts, come on, really..
I feel that your assessor has cocked up somewhere though, and I truly hope that you can sort it.
not with an old back boiler it wouldn't, but I would have thought it would be a high E / low D with the PV.Yes agree that doesn't add up. The rating should be more like C at least.
yes, but unfortunately the EPC bodies got firmly instructed that if the EPC assessor did this, then he still had to go back and take full pictures of everything again after the installation before lodging the EPC to include the solar panels, so doing a pre and post install epc means 2 full visits to site.Did you all know your assessor can do a lodge EPC befor before the install then you can ask them to give you a draft copy with the solar panels on so you can see the rating of the house with solar in draft ?
its common sense !
if you sold the system and said you would get the higher tarriff and it does not then your stuffed but if you told them it depend on the EPC the you are ok.
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Gavin your missing my point
if the EPC rating is below a D with no solar
then get your assessor to add solar to see if it goes higher than a D
THEN you know its safe to install!
so after the install get a new EPC with solar so its higher than a D
jes I know its two trips I not on about that , I am saying instead of being dumb enough to install solar before the epc , if the house is below a D when you have an EPC ask the assessor to see what it goes to when you add solar !!!!
so then you know when you fit the panels it will make the grade!
its common sense
I KNOW ITS TWO TRIPS!!!
Whats all this agro. about EPC I do electrical work for Landlords, they obtain ECP for every property, they dont carry out any recomendations
and future tenents dont ask for a copy of the EPC. So what is the point, seems like another Govenment ripoff.
no the penny has dropped - why do you think that the 2 posters who no longer fit solar are the 2 being smart arses about it, and all the installers still working in the field are telling you this is a problem?Give up mate penny hasn't dropped
The second visit is quicker than a drive by shooting a draft can be done before install too ask your Dea before customers become loosers
there is another way too rather than a second visit from a Dea take a pic of install with date and time on it from the ground and send it to him that's what he would have anyway if Dea was to do a 2nd visit
jes i know its two trips i not on about that , i am saying instead of being dumb enough to install solar before the epc , if the house is below a d when you have an epc ask the assessor to see what it goes to when you add solar !!!!
So then you know when you fit the panels it will make the grade!
Its common sense
i know its two trips!!!
This is what has been happening until the EPC body started crying and told all DEA to go back and do another full bloody report! because the MCS cert and photos wasnt enough - well thats what the straight DEA are doing anyway.
i dont make the rules - but thats what our said and does - and Gavins (not the same people)
So you can see - its twice the EPC cost which is what we was getting at - where dumb enough to know we can ask the DEA to model the EPC with the additional solar on to see what the rating could be.
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