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EPC rant
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I agree about the "box ticking" but the government had no choice - the EPC is required under EU legislation.
But what they could have done is detach it from the house-buying process.
I do agree with you there (result of EU directive) but it is how it is implemented (point you also made). It is an irrelevance. Thus it should have been devised and implemented accordingly, rather than making it another cost to bear for no benefit (and this was the fault of the Govt).0 -
TrickyDicky101 wrote: »I do agree with you there (result of EU directive) but it is how it is implemented (point you also made). It is an irrelevance. Thus it should have been devised and implemented accordingly, rather than making it another cost to bear for no benefit (and this was the fault of the Govt).
Well it was deliberately designed to worthless. It made so it doesn't up how poor Uk new builds are in term of energy efficiency otherwise the new build housing companies would have been up in arms.
The legislation is working exactly as the government hoped ie not at all.0 -
Halogen bulbs are horrid things. We sell them in our shop and people are always moaning that they blow quickly.
Even if they are low energy, then you spend all the savings on buying new bulbs anyway.
The best types of light bulbs by far are the traditional incandescent bulbs. They last for years (some in our house are from Safeway so that tells you how long they last as Safeway was taken over by Morrisons ), they don't flicker and hurt your eyes and they aren't rammed full of mercury.
If new style CFL bulbs were better, there would have been no need for legislation to ban the old bulbs because people would have bought the newer types over the old ones anyway.
All this green/nanny state/health and safety legislation is mostly nonsense. To bring up my Mercury point above, it is now common place in light bulbs which are easily dropped and broken, but they are no longer able to put it into thermometers. We have just sent 30 thermometers back to the suppliers as the modern equivalents just don't work. So after being mass produced in China, shipped halfway around the world and then halfway up the country, they will now end up in Landfill on UK soil.
Thank you very much to the dictatorship that calls itself the EU. The sooner it collapses, the better in my mind.0
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