Free insulation for tenanted properties
Did you know that landlords can now get free loft, cavity and solid wall insulation and more, especially if your tenants are in receipt of benefits?
The procedure to find out whether your properties qualify for free insulation is simple; it costs just £100 for a survey and if the works go ahead the survey fee is refunded too!
The surveyor will measure the existing insulation in the loft. Cavity wall insulation is a simple drill test and holes are filled again afterwards. The turnaround on insulations is really fast and done by approved insulation teams.
External insulation is available for properties pre 1920 which are of a solid construction. An additional wall is added and then rendered. It looks really smart, adds value to a property and costs the landlord nothing!
There are a lot of misunderstandings amongst landlords surrounding the Green Deal. I don’t profess to being an expert but I do know that a lot of the work which is completed as a result of Green Deal assessments isn’t necessarily paid for with Green Deal funding. There are several grants available too! These are very much dependent upon your tenants’ financial circumstances. Therefore, it is important that your chosen assessors/surveyors and the companies they work with to arrange funding and installations based on their recommendations also obtain comprehensive details of your tenants finances to obtain the most efficient funding. The company we have now partnered with are a FTSE 250 company and employ over 70,000 people. They provide these services to Housing Associations and Councils. They are, therefore, incredibly well placed to advise you and your tenants properly.
The problem with trying to investigate all the different schemes yourself is that you don’t know what YOU don’t know and you don’t know what you local man doesn’t know either!
It’s all very well trying a DIY approach to this but why bother when, under the scheme we have put together, you get the £100 survey fee back when the works are done anyway?
What’s the point in going to a local supplier who has a handful of contacts when you can go to a National company which is bang up to date with all the schemes available?
In terms of the £100 survey fee, I can’t see why some landlords might perceive this is an issue. Why would anybody do the research if they were not indenting to go ahead?
As I see it, the £100 is merely a refundable commitment fee.
Conclusion – if you are serious about improving your property and you want the best advice on all schemes without doing the leg work then pay your £100 to our recommended supplier, get the work done and get your £100 back. SIMPLES!
Advantages to having an assessment and proceeding with works are; increased property values, reducing carbon emissions and happy tenants as the cost of the energy bills will be lower, especially over time as we are all aware that energy costs are rising quickly.
The businesses we have partnered with have surveyors and installers throughout the country which means that customer service is fast and efficient. Remember, your survey fee is refunded when the works proceed.
How to get FREE insulation for tenanted properties
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Important note – this article was updated on 8th April 2013. Some of the comments below refer to Michael Wakefield, an insulation specialist who very kindly who provided content in the original article. We have since removed that content and now refer all enquiries to a National supplier which has the resource not only to respond quickly, but also to arrange and complete insulation work in a timely manner no matter where your properties are located.
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8:14 AM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
I’d challenge anybody to put the question on LinkedIn. Who got took in Nov and Dec. You will be astonished. Even more worrying these people are still active and trading as new names. So I was punished once now again it seems for trying to help. I won’t be replying no more. As your comments are totally out of line. Have the common decency to pick the phone up rather than acts this way
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10:42 AM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Hi Mark, Posting under my own name and email! Hopefully the form I refilled in yesterday has registered.
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10:53 AM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Hi Gillian, I have now found your enquiry and I have re-submitted the contact request to the company I have been dealing with. I am also going to email you and cc the MD of the company we are working with.
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7:49 PM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Wow – what a tangled mess!
having just (re)read this entire thread for a second time I can, sadly, confirm that the confusion described echoes my own attempts to get to the bottom of just exactly where we all stand with all of this from a landlord’s perspective.
My question is simple:
Is EWI available with 100% funding under *ANY* circumstances?
I appreciate that there will be conditions and in my own case the property concerned is in DN35 7EA with a tenant that is working but will be in receipt (subject to my confirming the details with them) of some form of child related benefit (having just had a new baby) and possibly other benefits – again which I am currently seeking confirmation of via my agent.
Further – when I initially enquired about this and tried to follow up through a “national” firm that never returned my calls late last year (thanks guys!) their web site indicated that DN35 7EA was within a “deprived” area and as such would be eligible for 100% funding of EWI.
Since then I have heard nothing and can find no information to either confirm or deny whether 100% funding for EWI was ever available!
I filled in Mark’s form a week or so ago and promptly got a call from a polite young lady who was unable to answer my question either. I asked her to research the situation further and get back to me but since when I have heard nothing.
Does anybody know whether EWI was ever 100% funded under any circumstances please?
Because if it is not then it will, most regrettably, not make sense for us to proceed without it.
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7:55 PM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
I should add that I have also enquired of:
ofgem
NE Lincs Council
The Energy Saving Trust
All of whom displayed varying degrees of polite but clueless ignorance.
If these people don’t know the answers then who the hell does?!?!?!
(The Energy Saving Trust claim to have “800 questions & answers” and the clear inference is intended to be that they have the answer to everything so don’t worry. Bizarrely, they claim never to have even been asked the “100% funding for EWI” question and had no answer – not even a “sorry mate, you must be joking!”.
I found this very difficult to believe and let the chap that I spoke to know this.
This is another organisation that I have added to the list of those engaged in further research in order to get back to me. I dare not hold my breath for fear of the inevitable consequences…)
10:06 PM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Yes I can answer. Ewi was meant to be fully funded. But the goalposts changed. The Utilities want three off grid properties to everyone gas property. People don’t seem to have this ratio. Greed from the Utilities due to carbon rate. Electric is fully funded and you need no benefits unlike gas which is not and yet you still need top benefits. Feel free to call me and ill try explain more. Hope it helps 07827327458
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10:56 PM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Mike
Yes I can answer.
Ewi was meant to be fully funded.
Meant by who ? I thought this is a government scheme.
But the goalposts changed. The Utilities want three off grid properties to everyone gas property.
Are you saying :
Utility companies can change the rules set by the government ?
ALL the utility companies have done this ?
Each landlord has to provide 3 properties with no gas facility for every 1 property with gas to get funding ?
People don’t seem to have this ratio. Greed from the Utilities due to carbon rate. What happens to landlords who do not have 4 properties or a different mix ?
Electric is fully funded and you need no benefits
What does this mean ?
unlike gas which is not and yet you still need top benefits.
What does this mean ?
Feel free to call me and ill try explain more. Hope it helps 07827327458
ON 11 Apr 13 you emailed me
‘Hi leave this with me ill reply when i have an answer’
This is now 18 April 13. Do you have the answers yet ?
For readers not privy to our exchanges : I have 10 properties in a block in Birmingham without gas in need of EWI, double glazing and CH.
11:00 PM, 17th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Sam. Iv submitted your properties. I expect them to be funded according to utility company. I did say I’d reply. I will asap. Hopefully before the month end.
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11:01 AM, 18th April 2013, About 13 years ago
Mike – could youanswer Sam’s specific queries here for the benefit of everybody please?
I for one am certainly interested in the detailed responses / explanations.
Off grid: what do you mean by this please?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid
To me “off grid” means:
no mains electricity
no mains gas
probably no mains water
certainly no mains sewerage
(and quite likely some distance from the nearest “civilisation” to boot as well)
Surely there can only be very few of these properties here in the UK, so any idea of getting a 3:1 ratio is absurd / complete nonsense / utterly impossible?
Given this, I conclude that I do not understand your definition of “off grid”.
Please could you explain a little more?
11:07 AM, 18th April 2013, About 13 years ago
What is meant by off grid in the industry – None gas been supplied – so houses that run on electric or coal etc.
So for every property which is viewed and surveyed who are running on gas – we need to find 3 times that one on electric or coal to make the gas one free.
Yes its still Rubbish but this is what any company is up against. GREED by the utilities