MSE News: Green Deal Home Improvement Fund reopens

jeallen01

Regardless of what was said in yesterday's email about it, a grant for wall insulation is not currently available as I found out when I applied this afternoon and found that statement on the
Htt ps:// energy-saving-home-improvement-fund.service. gov.uk /
- and after all the effort I have been through to get the Assessment and the Quotation! :-(


- Hopefully it will be in "early 2015", and then I will have to try again!

astro2463

I applied for eight different people yesterday for external and each one got a reply back requesting a quote and proff of ownership,I think you might be to late if you have applied today and will probably have to wait until feb 2015

john26

I wasted a lot of time looking into this scheme in June prior to completing on our first home. A full modernisation project, it needed everything covered on here as it hadn't been improved since the 50's so it should have been just the thing.

All I found was that in order to qualify I would have to spend money I wouldn't have spent otherwise, with green deal approved company's who were charging more than it would have cost if I could have used a full range of competitive providers. The savings I should have made were absorbed into the providers profits.

Also, the scheme was poorly advertised, I had to contact providers for advice who I invariably found were less interested in saving me money than they were making money for themselves. I'm able to do much of the work myself but to qualify I need to use Green Deal approved installers.

In the end, having wasted hours, I gave up, spent my money the old fashioned way with competitive suppliers and providers and I bet i'm no worse off.

united4ever

Bought a house in October 2014. The EPC reccomended Cavity Wall Insulation and floor insulation. The Home buyers survey recommended roof insulation (it's a pitched roof 1960s house).

Is it worth me getting an assessor in for £150. I gather you have to go ahead and get the whole lot done before you get £100 refunded for the assessment.

Maybe now is the right time to do it so that I can get £500 back from the buying a house in the last 12 month incentive....but reading here there is a lot of scepticism.

Smiley_Dan

An EPC itself is good enough to get the work done under the GDHIF, so long as the measures you are getting done are recommended in the EPC.

blogger57

Has anyone else had problems with getting hold of a Green Deal registered installer for a boiler replacement quote for this scheme ? There are loads of GD registered installers for insulation but I am struggling to find anyone within a 30 mile radius of Doncaster who actually specialises in boilers?