Government scheme could benifit you?
 

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.

Government scheme could benifit you?
 

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:23:07 -0000, Janet wrote:

I don't know about England but in Scotland property owners can
get a
free energy survey (building and lifestyle, energy and car use,
recycling etc) and big subsidies for insulating loft, cavity
walls,
doors etc.

Sounds like Warm Front

Nope.

https://www.government-grants.co.uk/...-grants.shtml?
gclid=CJ230ZqD8K0CFcEntAodZTu7tA

The average working family doesn't qualify for any
grants,

wrong, see above. This covers Britain.

May *cover* Britain but look at the eligibilty requirements on:

https://www.government-grants.co.uk/...n-grants.shtml

Child or Working Family Tax Credit is going to be received by most
families but notice you have to have an "annual income" below
£16,190, the average UK wage (individual) is about £24,000. And I
suspect that "annual income" really means household annual income not
an individuals.

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Cheers
Dave.

Government scheme could benifit you?
 

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:23:07 -0000, Janet wrote:

I don't know about England but in Scotland property owners can
get a
free energy survey (building and lifestyle, energy and car use,
recycling etc) and big subsidies for insulating loft, cavity
walls,
doors etc.

Sounds like Warm Front

Nope.

https://www.government-grants.co.uk/...-grants.shtml?
gclid=CJ230ZqD8K0CFcEntAodZTu7tA

The average working family doesn't qualify for any
grants,

wrong, see above. This covers Britain.

May *cover* Britain but look at the eligibilty requirements on:

https://www.government-grants.co.uk/...n-grants.shtml

Child or Working Family Tax Credit is going to be received by most
families but notice you have to have an "annual income" below
£16,190, the average UK wage (individual) is about £24,000.

Plenty of single parents, part time employed might qualify. Anybody
working fulltime for minimum wage, earns less than £16 K; (including
professional, qualified gardeners btw, back on topic) and a lot of other
jobs , see below

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011...d-jobs-uk-2011

The 20 lowest gross full-time median salaries in 2011 (% change)

1. Waiter £12,117 -0.7
2. Hairdresser £12,219 -4.4
3. Bar staff £12,399 +2.0
4. Kitchen/catering assistant £12,422 -2.7
5. Leisure attendant £12,585 -3.9
6. Florist £13,227 -7.1
7. Sales assistant £13,449 + 7.7
8. Launderer/dry cleaner £13,479 +1.3
9. Cashier £13,542 +3.1
10. Domestic cleaner £14,144 +0.1
11. Hotel porter £14,515 +6.5
12. Shelf filler £14,364 +5.0
13. Retail assistant £14,521 +2.8
14. Nursery nurse £14,554 -1.2
15. Housekeeper £14,560 +2.9
16. Animal care assistant £14,830 -10.6
17. Office assistant £14,993 +4.8
18. Beautician £14,984 -1.6
19. Sewing machinist £15,057 +5.7
20. Fishmonger £15,453 +12.1

Janet

On the other hand if they're going to squander the heat, wouldn't you prefer them to be squandering solar energy rather than energy from a coal fired power station? ;-)