£7600 Home Improvement Fund (GDHIF)

prowla

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

Yeah, external doors are covered, see https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/318160/Final_Consumer_Quick_Guide_WEB.pdf

Floor insulation is... insulation... in the... floor? Seriously, it's about insulating around floor material to make sure the floor itself is not used as a thermal bypass for energy out of the house. The type you need depends on your floor type - solid or suspended (to generalise).

Thanks.

I wasn't sure whether floor insulation would be underlay on a stone floor, screeding, laminate flooring with thermal properties, or what. I've got a rather past its best carpet in my living room and just lino onto the stone floor in my office.

Hence the rather open-ended question...:)

captainhindsight_2

prowla wrote: »

The biggest chunk of the headline number is up to £6k towards solid wall insulation. Since that will be quite specific to certain houses, and total more than that, I'm not sure what the uptake would be.

So then that leaves some up to £1000 items and a couple of oddments.

As I read it, several of those items which you can have up to £1000 towards would probably cost a lot more, so I suppose it's a good deal if there is something you needed doing anyway.

Actually, thinking about it, I need new front and back doors - would they be covered?

Also, what's floor insulation?

(Slightly random thinking out loud...)

This will only be worthwhile if you're planning on doing it anyway, so for builders, developers and people looking for a house to do up this is going to be great as they are probably going to install solid wall insulation, floor insulation, boiler, windows, doors etc anyway and now they'll get upto £7600 cashback.

For everyone else its going to be boilers with a net cost of just under a £1000 after the cashback, which is good if your doing it anyway.

Smiley_Dan

captainhindsight wrote: »

Solid wall insulation can be used on its own.

Of the list of 12, it must be two measures. If you only want one, and you cant cheaply add another measure on to what you are doing it probably wont be worth while.

Farking hell. I'm losing interest in this already.

prowla

captainhindsight wrote: »

This will only be worthwhile if you're planning on doing it anyway, so for builders, developers and people looking for a house to do up this is going to be great as they are probably going to install solid wall insulation, floor insulation, boiler, windows, doors etc anyway and now they'll get upto £7600 cashback.

For everyone else its going to be boilers with a net cost of just under a £1000 after the cashback, which is good if your doing it anyway.

Yes, I see that - help the developers, and it'll go straight into their profits. Still, I suppose if it does improve energy efficiency then there is some value for the greater good.

In my case, I have those couple of things which need doing but at a low priority, so if it could be cost effective then I could go for it.

I'm going to check out the doors (my front door is glass and my back one's double glazing has failed).

Can you get a boiler for under £1000 (installed)? Mine is a rather old back-burner behind the living room fire and a hot cylinder tank on the 1st floor.

captainhindsight_2

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

Farking hell. I'm losing interest in this already.

What work is it that you want done, it's pretty straight forward if you find a good firm.

We are starting instalations next week fitting boilers for under a £1000 after the cash back.

Smiley_Dan

A new external door. My current one has holes in it plus some thin panels which gather condensation faster than the embedded glazing.

Smiley_Dan

BTW, with regards replacement doors and windows, who dictates which doors and windows are allowed? The installers for replacement doors are builders, not door makers. So do they have a set of "permitted" doors? I'd like to get something mega like http://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/page--ecocontract-commercial-windows-doors.html

The other problem I have is that there are only two installers for replacement doors in the GDHIF database for my postcode and one of them said they don't actually cover my area

highguyuk

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

BTW, with regards replacement doors and windows, who dictates which doors and windows are allowed? The installers for replacement doors are builders, not door makers. So do they have a set of "permitted" doors? I'd like to get something mega like http://www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk/page--ecocontract-commercial-windows-doors.html

The other problem I have is that there are only two installers for replacement doors in the GDHIF database for my postcode and one of them said they don't actually cover my area

Where is this Database of contractors/installers?

highguyuk

Additionally, for those owners who've recently bought, is that EPC Certificate valid for these works?

Smiley_Dan

highguyuk wrote: »

Where is this Database of contractors/installers?

http://gdorb.decc.gov.uk/consumersearch