More than 5,000 retrofits needed a day to meet EPC C targets costing landlords thousands

Well any landlord with common sense does not run a business just to lose money. The yearly energy savings to the tenant is definitely going to be wiped out by increasing rents too cover the cost of upgrading properties to the Nut Zero EPC policy. I don’t even think that thick politicians would want to run a business and lose money, unless of course your a Labour one, because they can’t grasp the idea of how business works !

And where are required number of qualified engineers going to come from to retrofit those properties? Plenty of cowboys are already lining up and rubbing their hands with glee. Expect carnage to ensue.

Reply to the comment left by roger radford at 20/03/2025 – 10:14
valid point re cowboys , the government ( Miliband) doesn’t care , that’s the landlord’s problem . We have already seen disasters caused by them with grant aided home improvements. I do wonder how much further rents can rise to cover an endless steam of harebrained government ideas but once corporate landlords take over completely tenants will get a hell of a shock.Then I doubt government will be so sympathetic towards their beloved tenants.

I think it’s 2010 for existing tenants – 2008 for new tenants so may as well hold on till just before it comes in then get quit! Court backlog = homelessness deferred errr!

Policy is working perfectly,, impossible targets will see tens of thousands of older rural properties becoming unlettable with mass migration, coralling, into cities, the loss of lettability will see mass financial loss by owners, ‘You will own nothing’ dovetailing neatly with farm destroying inheritance tax with land being picked up at a song for solar farms instead of food. All crazy of course which it is. We have to recognise that we are at war with the cabal of central banking expressing itself through technocratic corporatism, we can’t expect top down policy change, we have to fight it at grass roots level, one mind at a time and that time is now.

A £240 saving on energy bills which will have already increased by far more by 2030. Also, inflation will have taken its toll.

Hopefully, looney red Ed won’t be in power in 2030, and the Net Zero scam will be dumped, but assuming the rule stays, what happens when thousands of landlords can’t or won’t improve their EPC?

they wont be in by then so I’m not worried about this at all and the whole NZ scam will be seen for what it is well before then.

The push to get everyone using EV is going so well already….isn’t it….

No one has the money to fund this government NZ folly.

Reply to the comment left by LaLo at 20/03/2025 – 11:06
You may be living in the past!

More updates since my retrofit. Tenant moved out yesterday, couldn’t get her small double bed in half down the stairs, due the new insulated wall bottom of stairs.

Miliband needs to come & see what it’s like in real life.

My video rant to Ed Miliband after journalists asked for my response.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PEQJiMyGoXvbT91k7

Actually, its worse than it looks as a lot of landlords (including me) won’t even think about upgrading to EPC C until we know the new way it is going to be measures – so that means 2027 at the earliest