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Want to earn £50,000 a year?
That was the promise when EPCs were launched back in 2008. At the time the Government predicted the need for up to 4,000 energy assessors and many training bodies claimed that first year earnings of £50,000 were virtually guaranteed. So with a new year in prospect, what lessons have we learnt since 2008 and what advice would I give to an aspiring EA in 2010?
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Be very careful where you buy a web site
Be very careful whom you choose to build and host your web site Last June I bought a web site from a company named BT Customer Street. Since then BT Customer Street has been telling me that the site is getting regular Hits.
However so far my web site has not generated a single job for me. It is proving to be a very expensive mistake and because I have signed up to a 12-month contract with them I am stuck with it. Are there any other DEAs out there who have similar experiences with this company?
The cowboys may have met their match
Reading all the post about DEAs charging just £30 for an Energy Performance Certificate, (and in some cases even less) the situation is becoming rather depressing for a group of professionals who are trying to do a thorough job and producing meaningful EPC’s.
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Why amateurs are killing the industry
Whenever and wherever energy assessors gather the talk soon turns to fee levels and how hard it is to build and maintain a decent income. Often the blame is laid at the door of the Panel Operators (PO) who simply acts as middle-men yet seem to take the lion’s share of the fee. However, it appears there is another enemy out there and this time it’s our own colleagues.
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Are Domestic Energy Assessors selling themselves short?
One of the biggest complaints often voiced by DEAs is the fact that they are “ripped off” by Panel Operators (POs), the companies that advertise to carry out energy assessments and then farm the work out to local DEAs.
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How long is my Energy Performance Certificate good for?
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What is taken into account in producing an Energy Performance Certificate?
Love them or loath them, Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) are now a fact of life for home-owners, landlords, tenants and buyers. Whilst many people are now used to looking at the EPC chart, which resembles those little stickers you find on modern electrical goods, few actually understand what goes into arriving at that score and what can, and can’t be done, to improve it.
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Will triumph for the Tories spell the end for Home Information Packs?
Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps has recently reconfirmed his pledge to scrap Home Information Packs (HIPs) if the Conservative Party succeeds in next year’s General Election. Not so widely reported, but potentially more damaging for struggling Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) is his plan to move the requirement for an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) to the end of the house buying process. Summing this up Shapps said “We will scrap the discredited HIPs, liberating EPCs t
Renewable technogies getting a bad press in RdSAP
I have just lodged an EPC for a 400m+ Victorian house which has a NIBE air source heat pump. The vendor and I made lots of positive noise about these things and everyone was happy. Imagine my surprise that the house scored 21! To put this in perspective I substituted the heat pump with a condensing gas boiler and the property shot up to 50!
Energy Performance Certificates For Landlords
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