On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:12:46 +0000, kay wrote:

The loan for the insulation is against the house, not against you, so if
you sell the property, then the new owner's fuel savings are still being
channeled away to pay the outstanding loan on the insulation.

Not exactly something to encourage a potential buyer into buying...

You would also want to take a good look at restrictions on who can do
the work. The laudable aim to make sure the work is done to good
standards sometimes means that you're tied to large national firms and
you can't use the local firm who you know and trust.

Depends how restrictive they are, Warmfront is appauling you have to
use the Warmfront lot, provide the hay and put up with spur marks on
the walls. Solar PV and Renewable Heat is much better, you have to
use an MCS approved contractor but other than that the choice is
yours.

I've seen some suggestion that future payments for people to instal
solar panels will only be given if the house has already been insulated
to approved standards.

Solar thermal panels and other renewable heat sources like biomass
boilers, yes. Which is a reasonable requirement IMHO, whats the point
of anybody investing in renewable heat if you are going to sqaunder
that heat?

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Cheers
Dave.