EPCs are a legal requirement if you intend to sell or let your home, but you can instruct us to provide one even if you don't intend moving. For the same reasonable fee your home can have an EPC, together with a recommendations report which tells you how to improve your rating.
The cost of heating, lighting and providing hot water to our homes has vastly increased over the last couple of years, and more rises are on the way. According to Ofgem, typical h
ousehold energy bills could rise to well above £2,000 a year - climbing from below
£600 five years ago - with increases even higher than the 60% they predicted earlier in 2009. You can read more about Ofgem's latest warning on the
Telegraph Online website.
If you commission an EPC from us you will learn what can be done to reduce those hefty fuel bills, and the good news is that some of the most effective measures are remarkably inexpensive due to subsidies from your energy supplier. By acting on the advice provided with your EPC, your energy rating will improve, you will save money on your fuel bills, and you will also reduce the carbon dioxide emissions from your home.
To prevent unnecessary travel and the carbon dioxide emissions it creates, we do not normally travel over 30 miles to provide an EPC. We can normally provide your EPC on the same day as the
inspection, so you can move quickly to get those improvements ordered and start saving!
Our prices
We offer a fixed price service within our local area (around
Northampton, Wellingborough and Milton Keynes) that starts from £50
plus lodgement fee. Within this area, unless your home is very complex
or larger than 4 bedrooms, the price will not exceed £69. We do not
charge VAT.
Our accreditation scheme
EPCs are provided via a complex system, where DEAs can register with any one of about 10 accreditation schemes. All such schemes are approved by the Government, and all are required to adhere to minimum standards that the Government has specified for them.
Linn is accredited with the
NHER accreditation scheme, which started out as the National Home Energy Rating Scheme, operated by the
National Energy Foundation. The NEF, founded in the 1980s, was the forerunner of all energy assessor accreditation schemes.
Working with the small company that later became
National Energy Services, the NHER accreditation scheme operator, and with the Milton Keynes Development Corporation, NEF developed the first ever energy rating scheme. The scheme operated exclusively in Milton Keynes, a new city that was then being built to higher standards of energy efficiency, and its rating was called the
Milton Keynes Energy Cost Index. This local system was followed soon after by the National Home Energy Rating, offered UK wide.
SAP was developed from the NHER in the 1990s, as a simpler version of the rating system, suitable for Building Regulations use.
With a pedigree like that, it's no surprise that the NHER is now the premier accreditation scheme for DEAs, promoting the benefits to us all of improving the energy efficiency of our homes.