EPC Assessment

My chosen Estate Agent appointed an EPC assessor to carry out a pre-sale EPC. Having enjoyed his company for 2 hours yesterday, I do not know whether to laugh or cry. If an EPC is all about energy saving, then most of my home improvements just went over his head. For example, I have an ‘A’ Rated boiler which is installed/designed to operate at a low max flow temperature. He wrote down the boiler manufacturer but not the model. When I asked about boiler data, the response was ‘I will get it off the database’. When I mentioned design flow temperature, he just shrugged his shoulders. I had to show him the Dec 17 RdSAP convention. Things then went downhill, when I asked about zoning. ‘You haven’t got zoning as there is no thermostat upstairs’ was the response. He took some convincing that Honeywell Evohome with its 12 time/temperature-controlled zones actually meets the the RdSAP zoning criteria. We then got into a discussion about a missing CH pump. ‘It’s part of the boiler’ was my response and I showed him the boiler handbook. I am not sure that he was convinced.

This afternoon, I got a further call with an urgent question: ‘I am right in thinking that your property is timber frame’? He couldn’t have got it more wrong. He told me that he had been doing EPC assessments for 10 years. He is now revising his assessment.

It’s no wonder that Lettings organisations have little faith in the EPC process if my surveyor is an indication of the people that the system trains/qualifies.