Official Free Boilers and Insulation guide discussion

jellikin

Hi,
I'm also waiting for this card. Any idea how to chase it up. My loft was done by British gas.

MoneyMate

Information gained from my local Council site
Bath and North East Somerset Green Deal
Bedfordshire Green Deal
Berkshire Green Deal
Blackburn with Darwen Green Deal
Blackpool Green Deal
Bodmin Green Deal
Bournemouth Green Deal
Brighton & Hove Green Deal
Brixham Green Deal
Buckinghamshire Green Deal
Callington Green Deal
Cambridgeshire Green Deal
Cheshire Green Deal
Cornwall Green Deal
Cumbria Green Deal
Darlington Green Deal
Dartmouth Green Deal
Derbyshire Green Deal
Devon Green Deal
Dorset Green Deal
Durham Green Deal
East Riding of Yorkshire Green Deal
East Sussex Green Deal
Essex Green Deal
Gloucestershire Green Deal
Greater London Green Deal
Greater Manchester Green Deal
Halton Green Deal
Hampshire Green Deal
Hartlepool Green Deal
Herefordshire Green Deal
Hertfordshire Green Deal
Hull Green Deal
Isle of Wight Green Deal
Ivybridge Green Deal
Kent Green Deal
Kingsbridge Green Deal
Lancashire Green Deal
Launceston Green Deal
Leicestershire Green Deal
Lincolnshire Green Deal
Liskeard Green Deal
Luton Green Deal
Medway Green Deal
Merseyside Green Deal
Middlesbrough Green Deal
Milton Keynes Green Deal
Newton Abbot Green Deal
Norfolk Green Deal
North East Lincolnshire Green Deal
North Lincolnshire Green Deal
North Somerset Green Deal
North Yorkshire Green Deal
Northamptonshire Green Deal
Northumberland Green Deal
Nottinghamshire Green Deal
Okehampton Green Deal
Oxfordshire Green Deal
Peterborough Green Deal
Plympton Green Deal
Redcar and Cleveland Green Deal
Redruth Green Deal
Rutland Green Deal
Salcombe Green Deal
Saltash Green Deal
Shropshire Green Deal
Somerset Green Deal
South Gloucestershire Green Deal
South Yorkshire Green Deal
Southend-on-Sea Green Deal
St Austell Green Deal
Staffordshire Green Deal
Stockton-on-Tees Green Deal
Stoke-on-Trent Green Deal
Suffolk Green Deal
Surrey Green Deal
Swindon Green Deal
Tavistock Green Deal
Telford and Wrekin Green Deal
Thurrock Green Deal
Tiverton Green Deal
Torbay Green Deal
Totnes Green Deal
Tyne and Wear Green Deal
Warrington Green Deal
Warwickshire Green Deal
West Midlands Green Deal
West Sussex Green Deal
West Yorkshire Green Deal
Wiltshire Green Deal
Worcestershire Green Deal
York Green Deal

Is your home suitable?

Your home will usually be suitable for if:
- its external walls are unfilled cavity walls,
- your cavity is at least 50mm wide,
- the masonry or brickwork of your property is in good condition,
- it is more than ten years old (most newer houses will have insulation already), and
- the walls are not exposed to driving rain.
Are your cavity walls unfilled?
If your house was built in the last ten years or so, its walls are probably insulated already. To find out whether they are:
- Ask a registered installer for a boroscope inspection. They will drill a small hole in your external wall to see if your walls are hollow or filled.
- Check with your local authority’s building control department – they might know if your cavity walls have been filled already.
Hope this helps ? :beer:

wirehair

I applied for my free insulation through the site for the £50 gift card plus it promised £160 payment to get my loft cleared . British gas have only just been to do survey after a long wait and after signing on the dotted line I asked when I would get my £50 voucher and £160 cheque and was told offer had finished !!!!!!!!!! I have since rang them and they said nothing they could do it is finished , although they could see I had gone through MSE . I am so angry as I could have gone through my account link and got thousands of nectar points , I see its still advertised in the link even now.

MoneyMate

MoneyMate wrote: »

Information gained from my local Council site
Bath and North East Somerset Green Deal
Bedfordshire Green Deal
Berkshire Green Deal
Blackburn with Darwen Green Deal
Blackpool Green Deal
Bodmin Green Deal
Bournemouth Green Deal
Brighton & Hove Green Deal
Brixham Green Deal
Buckinghamshire Green Deal
Callington Green Deal
Cambridgeshire Green Deal
Cheshire Green Deal
Cornwall Green Deal
Cumbria Green Deal
Darlington Green Deal
Dartmouth Green Deal
Derbyshire Green Deal
Devon Green Deal
Dorset Green Deal
Durham Green Deal
East Riding of Yorkshire Green Deal
East Sussex Green Deal
Essex Green Deal
Gloucestershire Green Deal
Greater London Green Deal
Greater Manchester Green Deal
Halton Green Deal
Hampshire Green Deal
Hartlepool Green Deal
Herefordshire Green Deal
Hertfordshire Green Deal
Hull Green Deal
Isle of Wight Green Deal
Ivybridge Green Deal
Kent Green Deal
Kingsbridge Green Deal
Lancashire Green Deal
Launceston Green Deal
Leicestershire Green Deal
Lincolnshire Green Deal
Liskeard Green Deal
Luton Green Deal
Medway Green Deal
Merseyside Green Deal
Middlesbrough Green Deal
Milton Keynes Green Deal
Newton Abbot Green Deal
Norfolk Green Deal
North East Lincolnshire Green Deal
North Lincolnshire Green Deal
North Somerset Green Deal
North Yorkshire Green Deal
Northamptonshire Green Deal
Northumberland Green Deal
Nottinghamshire Green Deal
Okehampton Green Deal
Oxfordshire Green Deal
Peterborough Green Deal
Plympton Green Deal
Redcar and Cleveland Green Deal
Redruth Green Deal
Rutland Green Deal
Salcombe Green Deal
Saltash Green Deal
Shropshire Green Deal
Somerset Green Deal
South Gloucestershire Green Deal
South Yorkshire Green Deal
Southend-on-Sea Green Deal
St Austell Green Deal
Staffordshire Green Deal
Stockton-on-Tees Green Deal
Stoke-on-Trent Green Deal
Suffolk Green Deal
Surrey Green Deal
Swindon Green Deal
Tavistock Green Deal
Telford and Wrekin Green Deal
Thurrock Green Deal
Tiverton Green Deal
Torbay Green Deal
Totnes Green Deal
Tyne and Wear Green Deal
Warrington Green Deal
Warwickshire Green Deal
West Midlands Green Deal
West Sussex Green Deal
West Yorkshire Green Deal
Wiltshire Green Deal
Worcestershire Green Deal
York Green Deal

Is your home suitable?

Your home will usually be suitable for if:
- its external walls are unfilled cavity walls,
- your cavity is at least 50mm wide,
- the masonry or brickwork of your property is in good condition,
- it is more than ten years old (most newer houses will have insulation already), and
- the walls are not exposed to driving rain.
Are your cavity walls unfilled?
If your house was built in the last ten years or so, its walls are probably insulated already. To find out whether they are:
- Ask a registered installer for a boroscope inspection. They will drill a small hole in your external wall to see if your walls are hollow or filled.
- Check with your local authority’s building control department – they might know if your cavity walls have been filled already.
Hope this helps ? :beer:

Just had email back £150 for survey No thanks

MoneyMate

Looks like average cost for Cavity wall insulation will be around £1400 unfunded, just spoke to local company.

Former_MSE_Rebecca

Hi,

If you've applied through the MSE link for cavity and/or wall insulation with British Gas, the £50 Compliments Card should be posted out to you around 60 days after installation. If this is not the case, please send me a private message with your email address and contact details and we can look into it.

Many thanks,

Rebecca

absolutly_fed_up

greatuncle wrote: »

I read that those on Pension Credit could get a free boiler replacement so I applied to nPower to see if I could get one. My existing Glo-Worm boiler is over 30 years old. It still works fine but every time it is serviced the engineer warns me that spare parts may not be available anymore if anything goes wrong.
So nPower arranged for someone to come and do an energy-efficiency survey of my house. They recommended increasing the loft insulation and installation of a new boiler. So far so good. Then they sent an engineer to look at the boiler and heating system. He recommended a combi-boiler to simplify the installation and didn`t mention any reason why it couldn`t be done "within about 4 weeks". Two weeks later nPower `phoned to tell me the saving in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel savings were not enough to justify them paying for a replacement boiler.
My house is a two bedroom end terrace, built 1984, 5 radiators, nothing out of the ordinary about it. But it doesn`t qualify. But they did tell me they could do it if I paid a contribution to the cost. Having got me in the mind-set of replacing the old boiler they then turned it down, perhaps thinking I would say "oh, alright then" so they wouldn`t have to pay out as much. If my house doesn`t qualify, the hundreds of thousands of similar homes won`t either.
British Gas evidently won`t offer free boilers anymore.
Anyone else been led up the proverbial garden path?

We applied for a replacement free boiler for my partners 91 year old mother through a referral to N Power from the Energy Savings Advice Service. All went reasonably well (usual hitches with lengthy waits for replies to phone calls etc) until the results of the free EPC . The results astound me. Mother can't have a free boiler as hers is too energy efficient at 88% (it broke down last Christmas and is unrepairable and obsolete) and also it's apparently not old enough! N Power say they cannot replace a boiler until the old one is 9 years old and actually suggested we wait another 18 months and then apply again! She can, however, have free cavity wall insulation!! I fail to see any point in insulating an unheated home! Am so cross words fail me. Having gone through the whole painful qualification process and arrived firmly back at square one my only thought is why didn't they ask the age of the boiler in the first place? It would have saved such a lot of time and effort for both parties.

Another thought. What use is an EPC if it tells you a boilers efficiency rating when it's clearly totally inefficient because it no longer works. Are these the same EPC's home buyers rely on when purchasing a property? If so they are not worth the paper they are written on!! Seems it's just another government imposed tax.

Mother reckons it's a government ploy to find out which vulnerable old folk haven't got any heating so they can bundle them into a home and then sell their houses to fund their care!! (She still has all her marbles). We have given up as we cannot face going through all this again so guess who's having a new boiler for her 92nd birthday next week (& Christmas & 93rd birthday etc etc)?

Bumble_Bee14

I still havent gotten a call from British Gas or whoever after filling out the form through the MSE link...its been over a week now. I completed the form again after 4-5 days not recieving a call. I thought they ring 10 times before contacting you via email?

What can i do to get the voucher and get someone to come over to do a survey?

Smiley_Dan

Does anyone know where the full terms and conditions can be found for CERO?

Specifically, I want to know all criteria surrounding easy to treat CWI, e.g. limitations on the %ge or walls treated, the insulant used etc.

wirehair

Bumble_Bee14 wrote: »

I still havent gotten a call from British Gas or whoever after filling out the form through the MSE link...its been over a week now. I completed the form again after 4-5 days not recieving a call. I thought they ring 10 times before contacting you via email?

What can i do to get the voucher and get someone to come over to do a survey?

As I said earlier they have told me the voucher is no longer available .