Energy Performance Certificates

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sonastin wrote: »

I think if you've already come across it once or twice in 4 years, it isn't as rare as you're suggesting.

I think that there are more "non-standard" houses for sale than "standard" - anything built before the Building Act 1984 brought building regs to the masses and anything that has had any sort of work done on it will more than likely have features not picked up by the software.

The more assumptions that are made, the less accurate the conclusion. There is no point in comparing one inaccurate result with another inaccurate (in a different way) result. So you can't use EPCs to compare anything in a meaningful way. Which leads me to conclude that they are meaningless.

The changes to the software are too little too late because there are thousands of meaningless EPCs already out there, valid for several years to come...

Sonastin,
Are you seriously suggesting that all the totally identical Victorian and Edwardian housing stock in London is non-standard because it was built prior to 1984?
What features are you referring to exactly?
And yes, if I have seen one building with hot water pipes running outside the building, I would say that is very uncommon as a total percentage of the buildings I had inspected.

Yes, alot of what is in an EPC is common sense, but that makes it even more ridiculous when you come across houses that don't even have loft insulation, does it not. (Of which I think 60-70% don't). And strangely, as I remember, it was always the biggest, most expensive houses that had no loft insulation and a geriatric boiler.

As I have tried to explain before, we are going to have energy problems within the next 5 years. Well over 50% of our housing stock is built with no insulation, so how do we deal with them?
If we ignore them the country remains grossly energy inefficient and weaker for it (in terms of land use, resources and trade agreements with countries from which we must import the energy (Russia being the main one)).
Is this really what people want?