EPCs - My Energy Efficiency Rating is better than yours!

Doozergirl

Seeing as they're not much good for anything else, what's your energy efficiency rating on your EPC graph?

Just being silly really but our EPC came through today. We have a 'C' rating - 79 out of 100. We did briefly get a bit excited about it as the energy assessor told us that we were two points off a 'B' and that he had never yet given a house a B rating.

So we asked what we could do to get that B rating and were told that the only things we could do would be to add photovoltaic panels or a wind turbine. So that's not happening!

Who has got the worst rating? Or has anyone managed the elusive 'B' rating?

lowtidesurf

Sorry mate just purchasing a new build and mine came through at 84 out of 100 a B. Sorry in this case mine is better than yours.

Doozergirl

lowtidesurf wrote: »

Sorry mate just purchasing a new build and mine came through at 84 out of 100 a B. Sorry in this case mine is better than yours.

Does it have a wind turbine?

tek-monkey

Think mines a D, maybe even an E! Mind you, one of its major issues was that it doesn't use energy saving bulbs! I got a load for a penny last year from Tesco, so thats easily sorted

Doozergirl

tek-monkey wrote: »

Think mines a D, maybe even an E! Mind you, one of its major issues was that it doesn't use energy saving bulbs! I got a load for a penny last year from Tesco, so thats easily sorted

This is what I do not get. How can energy saving lightbulbs be worth so much on the graph? I mean you could leave the TV on all day and the kettle on constantly and you'd be wasting loads more than the lightbulbs but they're not counted. A bigger house will probably use more energy than a small one but it's not downgraded for being big.

In fact, in tests, in some areas, wind turbines on houses use more energy from the grid than they actually produce, that's fact. But if you stick one on the roof you get brownie points. The more I think about it the more it frustrates me.

spidystrider

Oh dear, the house we have just sold is a D :embarasse

The one we're moving into is Victorian and is an E :eek:

Not very good.

tek-monkey

My current rental is a 1930s flat roofed house with single glazed sash windows, would hate to see where it ends up as it costs us £160pcm on average on leccy and gas

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

Does it have a wind turbine?

Doesn't everybody in this day and age?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Doesn't everybody in this day and age?

I alone can create quite a lot of hot air. Perhaps I could have added to the rating if I stood on the roof.

Loft insulation and the windows are above building regulations spec, everything else meets building regs so I'm surprised if an 'average' newbuild (don't know if it is or not) is coming out better. Although I've seen houses on the same new build estate with different ratings so how they work that out when they are built the same, I have no idea.

david29dpo

Mines F !!!

lowtidesurf

Na sorry Doozergirl, No wind turbine. But it is deffe a B. It is a timber frame construction. Double glazing, Dual boiler, THICK insulation. I dont know if that has any relevence on the rating tho. Its pretty spacious too.