Cavity wall insulation - sales people

alioops78

Hi

Not sure if this is the right place but need to ask about the sales people coming knocking on my door to offer free wall and loft insulation.

I'm renting and my landlord has already sent a surveyor out to get the insulation done but due to damp issues it can't.

When the sales people are coming round we tell them this in the hope that they'll accept it and move on but unfortunately not, they then pipe up saying that they can look at it and get it sorted etc. The latest is that not having the insulation done is going to put us into a higher council tax band.

My question is this does anyone know if this is true about the energy efficiency of your home being used as a criteria for the council tax banding or is it just a scare tactic that companies are now using.

Thanks

brewerdave

Scare tactic!

stator

Wow, I've never heard that one before. It's absurd and untrue.

alioops78

Thanks, I figured that was the case as I do my research on everything.

Smiley_Dan

Council tax adjustments according to EPC. If EPCs were made more rigorous, sounds like a good idea.

brewerdave

Smiley_Dan wrote: »

Council tax adjustments according to EPC. If EPCs were made more rigorous, sounds like a good idea.

WHY??? What have council tax payments have to do with energy efficiency?? Much better idea is to tie council tax to number of wage earners in the home......oh wait, believe someone tried that before:rotfl:

Smiley_Dan

Sorry, I let my inner troll out of his bottle for a minute there.

Mojisola

alioops78 wrote: »

When the sales people are coming round we tell them this in the hope that they'll accept it and move on but unfortunately not, they then pipe up saying that they can look at it and get it sorted etc.

You don't have to tell them anything.

Say "Not interested" and close the door.

McKneff

Just say, no thank you or the house is rented and politely close the door.

sgun

Last ones that came round to me told me that it would soon be against the law NOT to have cavity wall insulation. They really went for the hard sell so I pretended to be really worried.

What they didn't realise was that I had time on my hands so I let them go through the whole drilling holes process, signed me up for a survey etc etc. Took about 1.5 hours of their time and I didn't even make them a cup of tea.

After they left I rang the company and cancelled and explained what they had said and why I was reporting them.

simon55

OK, so they went for the hard sell which is bad but why didn't you go for free insulation that will save you money?? Or are you looking for a different supplier.

I looked into it and the ECO regs changed last week and cavity wall insulation is free to anyone now ....until the money runs out hence the rush (and hard sell..) to get people signed up by different installers.