Dea courses consider this, the home information pack starts 1st August 2007 for 4 bedroom homes and larger.
To spend between £2000 and £3000, on one of these DEA or Domestic energy assessor training courses, to chase approx 17% of the 4 bedroom and upwards private housing stock would be madness.
With no legal definition as to what is a 4 bedroom and larger property, your services would not be required and home owners would advertise as large 3 bedroom homes or just large family homes or homes with rooms upstairs.
Domestic energy assessors have already lost 83% of there potential business, and there are now approx 1500 assessors trained, out of the 2000 the Government needed to provide the EPC on the original Hips legislation . So you can see the figures do not stack up…
- Considering that the most you could charge for an EPC is £70
- With plenty of assessors out there, what would be the point.
- You would end up just flooding the market which would drive the price down even further.
The only one making any money, would be the domestic energy assessor course providers, and there are already too many of them.
These DEA or domestic energy assessor training providers, think so much of you, that they forgot to mention the change in the HIPs EPC regulations, Starting in August 2007. Strange how they do not say you are chasing just 17% of the UK private housing stock. Perhaps they will mention this after they have cashed your cheque…
So our advise would be to find something ELSE to spend your money on, perhaps a nice Jet Ski.
Filed under: energy performance certificates, energy-assessors
Why does the course cost so much? It can’t be that difficult to state the obvious can it : Ie upgrade your loft insulation, fill your cavities and use low energy lightbulbs.
Of course you go further and suggest that we all go back to having one small tv and watch as a family again now that would make a difference.
Hi Stu
These DEA training providers, saw an opportunity to make a fast buck and jumped on the bandwagon.
The course itself is worth no more than £800 max, which the government should have set the price of.
They would have had all the DEA’s they needed.
This created the Domestic energy assessors bandwagon, where these individuals run up a huge carbon footprint driving to your home, talk a load of rubbish compiling a paper report [more trees cut down]
Suggest double glazing cavity wall insulation anther huge carbon footprint in manufacture.
And then charge you £90 what a load of tosh….
Chris
WARNING! DOMESTIC ENERGY ASSESSOR COURSES, BE VERY CAREFUL!
I completed an interview with one of these training colleges in a large city in the midlands in April 2009.
I am 45 years old and have been out of work for some time, so when I saw this advert in the paper, I thought I would like to have a go at becoming a qualified domestic energy assessor. So I called them and arranged an interview.
The offices were very nice and the staff were friendly, I was quite impressed.
However, The first unusual thing that struck me was… in all the interviews that I’ve been to since I left school in the late 70’s,I have NEVER had to share an interview with another prospective candidate alongside me, but here I was in an interview to commence a DEA’s course with a total stranger. I was uncomfortable with this arrangement but went through with it anyway, since I was already there in the interview room.
We were asked a number of questions in turn and then were shown a couple of video clips about what we were likely to be doing as a qualified DEA. Of course the focus was on the earnings potential and figures starting at around £37,000 per annum were quoted.
It all looked very impressive but alarm bells started ringing from the moment I entered the interview room.
On the plus side, the qualification that you gain once you pass the course is recognised and legitimate, I understand that you even get ‘letters’ after your name. What these DEA training colleges/companies are doing may be legal, but they are also very misleading.
What they don’t tell you is that there are way too many qualified DEA’s out there already (government figures say well over 11,000) chasing far too few clients.
In the interview, I was told the total opposite, and that in fact there were not enough DEA’s for the work available.
The most disturbing thing of all is that they were willing to take over £3800 from me the very next day after I completed the interview. There was no offer of financial help or advice whatsoever, bear in mind many of the people that were applying for these courses would have been unemployed or on a low income.
I am so glad that I did my research because I was more than willing to get a loan from somewhere to pay for the course,
because I didn’t have that sort of money just lying around.
There is way too much competition from other qualified DEA’s who have alot more experience and contacts than any
new-comer to the business. Just be aware that you have to generate most of your contacts yourself, and you would not
have clients waiting as it was implied at the interview.
My advice? Stay well clear of these courses. These are not fly-by-night ‘Del boy’ type operations, these are slick, very well crafted money making schemes in my opinion.
It doesn’t appear to concern these people how you get the money to pay them,they just want it as quickly as possible.
If there is so much work out there, then why can’t you pay them back in installments after you get all this work that they say is available? It just horrifies me to think of the all the money I would have owed, and that I would’ve had no way of paying it back.
I would’ve been screwed twice over… Not enough work, and I would’ve been nearly £4000 in debt at least!
We all know the saying “If it looks too good to be true, then it probably is too good to be true” Just remember a diamond is very valuable, but if everybody had lots of diamonds then the value plummets. No different with the qualified DEA’s that are out there now. The market is saturated and they are trying to undercut one another in order to get clients.
Don’t waste any money on these courses, you’ll regret it. Just look at all the horror stories you can easily find online of all the out-of-work DEA’s that there are around.
I currently am looking into the process of starting one of these said courses,
I now find myself horrified at your comments.
However, what makes me unsure of your strong opinions is the fact that I can repay my course fees[loan] over a period of 12 months. I have been told this is achievable between 6-8 weeks??!!!
I ‘d appreciate it if i can hear from you