Cheap EPC's

[peterperfection]

Go on a EPC course yourself - and then you can do your own-- FREE.
You can even put down what you want to.

 

[tony1851]

EPCs = complete waste of time.

Who buys a house on the strength of an EPC?

 

[lymmranger]

...but "bad marks" for the open fire

and for having enough loft insulation but of an old material

bad marks firewise were due to being possible to burn coal!!!!!!!!!!

..........so what was to stop him changing his light bulbs?!?

His report wanted him to spend several thousand (£6836 to be precise) in order to "save" £300 per year. We worked that it would take 65 years to get his cash back

No - the bad marks for open fire were because there is a 9" sq opening ventilating the property. Would you leave a 9" sq hole in your outside wall?
No - he wasn't penalised for old loft insulation. It is only assessed on thickness alone. What did he think was 'enough'?
Yes - he could change his light bulbs;
No - it didn't want him to change his boiler - it was a recommendation that IF he needed or decided to change (as a result of wanting to improve the heating) then it would show an improvement in efficiency.

It's a pity the recipients for EPCs don't actually bother to read and understand them properly or ask the person who produced it to explain more fully rather than just slag them off down the pub.

well it WAS stated that it was due to being able to burn coal. It WAS also stated that insulation was too old and required replacement.
I accept that your reasoning is logical. BUT the guy doing the inspection DID say everything I posted, it is a family member who is not prone to either telling lies or exaggeration
As other contributors have posted, no one understands these things and based on family experience they come across as a con. Clearly you do understand them/or do them Most of the great un washed do not

 

[jeds]

The actual heat loss figure calculated by an EPC means almost nothing on an individual basis. The real purpose of them is to collect general information about energy use across the whole housing stock. When all the figures are lumped together into tens of thousands the errors even themselves out. The only time it is really useful individually is to alert buyers to significant failings - i.e. there are still thousands of houses that have little or no loft insulation. Otherwise the information they provide is pretty near worthless.

Actually. I should have said the real purpose of them is to tick an EU box. So the housing stock bit is really the secondry real purpose.

 

[lymmranger]

Apparently all water using appliances were noted

...number of loo`s
dishwasher
washer
etc

 

[kbdiy]

There is nowhere in an EPC that will comment on the age of insulation. The assessment is depth of existing and a recommendation to top-up to 270mm.

Yes the fuel burnt is relevant as it has an impact on CO2 production.

As for the assessment of water-using devices - pure nonsense!

This link https://www.epcregister.com/reportSearchAddressListReports.html?id=bccf3724a40fd6a8111c3c31299a8a85 (just complete the security check and follow the link)
will take you to a recent EPC for a house which did not have sufficient loft insulation and has plenty of water-use devices. As you will see, there is no provision to comment - they do not produce CO2. The appliances themselves are deemed portable and form no part of an assessment.

An assessor is not permitted to comment on the condition of any part of the property (including the age of insulation!).

For those of you that are concerned about publishing EPC information this is all available in the public domain for anyone to access.