EPC Certificate Query?

ComicGeek

kinger101 wrote: »

I hadn't realized this. My EA actually told me I'd need to get a new one if anything had substantially changed (which it hadn't). Makes you see how pointless they are if the information contained therein could be out of date. Mind you, I expect if you got three people round to do them, they'd all give wildly different ratings.

Probably so that the EA could sell one to you. And yes, absolutely pointless as it can only ever reflect what was there on the day of assessment.

ComicGeek

kinger101 wrote: »

The solicitor is likely asking on behalf of a buyer rather than some box-ticking exercise.....no point losing a sale of £50.

But worth querying it before wasting £50 if it's really not required. Depending on size of house and location, this could be £80/£100 rather than £50.

kinger101

ComicGeek wrote: »

Probably so that the EA could sell one to you. And yes, absolutely pointless as it can only ever reflect what was there on the day of assessment.

There was no hard sell believe me. The agent told me it was likely to still be valid. She didn't even push conveyancing. It was one of these online ones.

kinger101

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

The same can be said for the buyer: Is there a point in walking away over an useless £50 EPC?

Especially here, I think it is completely nonsensical: There is an EPC but since it was made the boiler was replaced. This means that a new EPC will be improved because instead of an old inefficient boiler there is now a new efficient one.

Personally, I'd reply that and offer to provide copies of the new boiler's documentation.

TBH, I'm surprised anyone would be bothered by them. It would be much simpler to just ask how much the owners spends on gas and electric.

Lummoxley

When I last bought I had a right palaver with the EPC*.

In your scenario I see no reason provide an updated version.

*(https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5305562)

Malcvolm

I'm looking for a house and one of the first things I look at is the EPC. Why? They are the one place you can easily get the habitual floor area so it helps compare prices. I spent 15 mins or more, working out the area for one property. The EPC floor area measures was the same as what I had worked out. Virtually everything else was wrong! Got to go back to get it redone!

I am trying to find out what the EPC energy efficiency star rating is for a mains gas boiler, 21 years old, 65% efficient. It's at the very bottom of the EU. A to G energy ratings. Would that give it one star or non. ,

ComicGeek

Malcvolm wrote: »

I'm looking for a house and one of the first things I look at is the EPC. Why? They are the one place you can easily get the habitual floor area so it helps compare prices. I spent 15 mins or more, working out the area for one property. The EPC floor area measures was the same as what I had worked out. Virtually everything else was wrong! Got to go back to get it redone!

I am trying to find out what the EPC energy efficiency star rating is for a mains gas boiler, 21 years old, 65% efficient. It's at the very bottom of the EU. A to G energy ratings. Would that give it one star or non. ,

So you're asking the vendor to get a new EPC? Is it really that wrong?

Probably 3 stars for the 'Main heating' element - anything below this is kept for electric heating etc. A poor gas efficiency is still better than electric heaters.

Submariner77

I've just had an EPC assessor visit the property I am renting.
I gather from what he did that the EPC on an old property isn't worth the paper it's printed on, all he did was measure the area of the flat, he didn't even notice that most of the sealed units in the windows have failed, or check in any way that there was cavity wall insulation, he had just taken it on the landlords say so that when the house was converted to flats it would have been done to building regs, ( as the date he was given by the landlord for conversion was wrong, I doubt this information to be true).
He took a photo of the boiler control panel, and some photo's of the outside of the property, I get the feeling that a lot of clairvoyance is used in determining the rating on one of these certificates.

Niv

When I had my EPC done before I sold my house I did find it fleetingly interesting. When I bought my new place, I did glance at the rating but didn't check the date of it being undertaken etc.


Also as some elements that bump the rating up could be taken by the seller it seems a little pointless to base your purchase on it.