Home energy reports farce

Did you know? When considering Energy performance ratings for your next home. The whole EPC  system is a complete farce, with no quality checks, the ratings themselves are based on assumptions and guess work.

So when you are looking at your next home to buy, use common sense and have a look in the attic, take a look at the light bulbs and ask to see the energy bills.

Did you know? If you had 2  energy assessors in you would get 2 different results. And they want to charge you money for this…

For the home buyer the only fact these Energy reports contain is whether its a house or a flat, and should not be given anything more than a passing glance.

If you consider homes are rated out of 100, Which means a D rated home 63% efficient can change to a B rated home 72 % efficient, for a few pieces of silver. see Psst want a better report

For the home seller to get there home up from D to a B Rating would involve

1. Fitting double glazing £4000
2. cavity wall insulation £380 [can cause cavity bridge which = Damp.]
3. solar panels                 £4500

A cost to the seller of the home of almost £10,000 for savings of £126 per year.

No one is seriously going to spend this on there home just to sell it.

First sellers pack in Administration

First Sellers pack has gone bust 

First Sellers Pack, which suffered a cash shortfall of £600,000 and has now gone into administration.

Although Hips have now gone live, Stephen Maskens, ex-chief executive of Hipstar, which lost £500,000 as a result of the delay, says that income for most Hip companies is still depressed.

Four-bedroom properties represent only around one- fifth of the total housing stock, and inspectors are therefore only able to carry out assessments on a fraction of the possible market.

You can avoid hips and that ridiculous Energy performance certificate, quite easily on all home sizes by calling your “bedrooms” rooms simple really.

Sell your home now “Avoid Hips and the EPC until 2008”

With those useless HIPs packs, stated in the Lords as “home information packs are a con” coming in on 1st August. For 4 bedroom and larger properties.

Put your home on the market now and be HIPs free till march 2008.

There is one thing the Great British Public are good at, and that is not paying for something they do not want. We can show you how to be hips free on any size of home.

Originally the Government had stated that, if your property was already on the market at the time Hips were introduced, you would not need to get a Hip until March 31, 2008.

You can of course be permanently HIPs free by calling you bedrooms Rooms. Therefore  you will have 2 rooms 3 rooms 4 rooms all with no drop in property price.

Internet sales portals are changing they way they list properties, shortly it will be the number of “rooms upstairs” not bedrooms