Green Deal MSE Guide Discussion

highguyuk

Me too! I want in!

highguyuk

Well that’s not gone well for me.



My installer who has quoted for WWHR isn’t registered to provide theservice!

chris_aaaaa

What URL did you use to get in?

Reginaldofw1

I live in a park home...its on wheels....looks like a bungalow.I use Lpg via combi boiler.

Can I get a grant for new boiler, loft insulating, solar panels...like a regular bricks and mortar house??

MattHawkins

Sounds like an awful scheme.

1) When you sell your house the new owner is expected to take on a loan that you started? I would never buy a house that came with a loan. Same as "free" solar panels.

2) If you lower your energy consumption due to spending your own money on new appliances the government gets to charge you for it. If you make an effort to switch off lights you get charged for it. Sounds like it would be better to simply use more electricity and keep your usage the same so you never payback anything!

3) Cavity wall insulation involves a largely disinterested gang of workmen peppering your outside brick work with visible holes and vibrating the walls so much you will need to redecorate your entire house.

4) You need to find a contractor when the sector is filled with con-men and cowboys.

lizperrott

Well, I paid for a Green Deal Assessment ( I live in Mid Wales) over a year ago. All well and good but when it came to finding an Green Deal Installer in my area, I was met with a brick wall. There were none, and the one firm we had used before told us that it cost so much to register and I was the only person in the area who had asked about it, that it was not commercially viable for them to join the scheme.

I found one green deal installer some 40 miles away, who promised to come and give me an estimate but in spite of calling many times, he never turned up.

It is not a very effective scheme if people like me are having to pay out for it only to be unable to use it because there are no accredited installers available. It would surely be a fairer scheme is the public could use any reliable firm to do the work?

Bazzza

Can anyone clarify the following. The MSE guide states many more improvements list of 40 items. The Energy Improvement Fund online application form only lists the first 11 itemised list to then choose two items from. I want to replace oil boiler and heating controls for new oil condensing boiler and room thermostat which are on the 40 many more improvements list. Are these actually eligible? If they are there is no place to select them on the official application form.

deltatango

Can you get loan for central heating. I am on storage heaters all electric

grey_lady

Rip off - cost of buying internal insulation for solid walls and fitting it ourselves was less than £1k - yet to be eligible for any help you have to use an approved installer and spend thousands - hardly moneysaving.

rrtt

My experience was that the scheme is so hedged about with restrictions, requirements and caveats that it's actually impossible to qualify!

Tried to get free loft insulation for house I bought that had 4" over some of attic, not all.
Firm a) said that I was too well off (on an income just under £10K p/a)
Firm b) (British Gas) required me to strip old all the old insulation first!! What??? - it was thin but in decent nick! and as I couldn't do myself due to disability, would have needed to employ someone to strip it - cost of that would have been more than my employing someone to put down new rolls over old!
Firm c) said that 4" over 75% of the area already meant that my loft was already too well insulated for me to qualify.

Same old same old re grants - all sounds lovely till you actually apply; whereupon you discover that they find endless reasons why they don't have to fork out after all ...