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Cheapest EPC

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  • tonytee
    tonytee Posts: 148 Forumite
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    I have heard of an energy assessor doing EPC's for £25. It doesnt take 2 years to qualify, its takes around 7 days and costs around £850.

    It could be a money earner if you can handle 10 a day at that sort of rate.
  • M.Holloway
    M.Holloway Posts: 258 Forumite
    tonytee wrote: »
    I have heard of an energy assessor doing EPC's for £25. It doesnt take 2 years to qualify, its takes around 7 days and costs around £850.

    It could be a money earner if you can handle 10 a day at that sort of rate.

    Even then, 10 a day = £250 factor in travel expenses and tax marketing + advertising costs etc..

    I reckon that would put an energy assessor at about £30k pa hmm, maybe not so bad?
  • RabbitMad
    RabbitMad Posts: 2,069 Forumite
    my ecp cost £50 (no Vat) - the guy said that he does them for most of the agents but my agent was the only one that didn't add a mark up, and as soon as the agent added their mark up they had to add vat on the price.

    One local agent wanted £100 + Vat
  • tbs624
    tbs624 Posts: 10,816 Forumite
    M.Holloway wrote: »
    Even then, 10 a day = £250 factor in travel expenses and tax marketing + advertising costs etc..

    I reckon that would put an energy assessor at about £30k pa hmm, maybe not so bad?
    Except it seems that many struggle. The majority of the posts on here are from 2008 but I don't see that there will have been a huge improvement
  • tux900
    tux900 Posts: 412 Forumite
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    M.Holloway wrote: »
    Even then, 10 a day = £250 factor in travel expenses and tax marketing + advertising costs etc..

    I reckon that would put an energy assessor at about £30k pa hmm, maybe not so bad?

    You are assuming the market can supply you with 10 a day for a year.

    I suspect the reality is significantly less, not least given how many jumped on the get-rich-quick/make-money-for-nothing EPC assessor bandwagon.

    Mathew
  • M.Holloway
    M.Holloway Posts: 258 Forumite
    MJNewton wrote: »
    You are assuming the market can supply you with 10 a day for a year.

    I suspect the reality is significantly less, not least given how many jumped on the get-rich-quick/make-money-for-nothing EPC assessor bandwagon.

    Mathew

    Oh of course. I guess the only people making money from it are the energy assessors association for selling the 'training courses'

    Where people essentially get trained to look about in a house lol
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