A candid blog on the world of Energy Performance Certificates
Home Information Pack threatens Govt targets and energy security
The Energy Performance Certificate must be released from the Home Information Pack to effect urgent wholesale change to our existing housing stock - not to mention meet the Government's own targets.
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, home-information-pack, government, peak-oil, domestic-energy-assessor
Lib Dems ask for Home Inspector Numbers & HCR Status
Housing Minister reveals lastest number of Home Inspectors (822) in answer to Lib Dem questions asking if Home Condition Reports will ever make it into Home Information Packs (HIPs)
Tags: home-inspector, home-condition-report, home-information-pack, government
Quidos Announce Free CPD for Members
Quidos is to make all CPD courses free to all Domestic Energy Assessors accredited with its accreditation scheme, this site can reveal.
Tags: quidos, cpd, domestic-energy-assessor
BRE to Launch White Label Home Information Pack (HIP)
BRE will soon launch its own white label Home Information Pack (HIP) to Domestic Energy Assessors (DEA), this site can reveal.
Tags: home-information-pack, bre
Scottish and Southern Energy to Recruit 500 DEAs
Several early Domestic Energy Assessors have long believed a major energy company would begin supplying Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs). A report claims Southern and Scottish Energy plan to do just that, nationally.
Tags: southern-and-scottish-energy, energy-performance-certificate, domestic-energy-assessor
Energy Performance of UK Directionless
Another week of bad energy news finally spurs UK Government into action - Well, action might be a bit strong actually.
Tags: government, energy-crisis
Estate Agent Warns Against Using HIP Provider
An estate agent on the Isle of Wight is claiming that a lot of estate agents are profiteering on the back of Home Information Packs (HIPs). It warns home sellers against instructing agencies using one particular HIP provider.
Tags: splinta, home-information-pack
Pulling our "chestnuts out of the fire"
With OPEC largely ignoring calls to increase oil supply, David Strahan - past guest on the DEA Podcast - is on the BEEB today saying they are at "geological limits". Meanwhile, Gordon Brown tries to squeeze 50,000 extra barrels/day from the North Sea
Independent Pack Providers Association (IPPA) Launched
A new body hoping to represent the independent Home Information Pack provider launched yesterday. The Independent Pack Providers Association (IPPA) was setup by the growing army of Domestic Energy Assessors and Home Inspectors forced into providing HIPs because of low fees... but you have to prove your worth to join!
Tags: independent-pack-providers-association, home-information-pack
HIP Complaint: Ombudsman Warning to Estate Agents
The Ombudsman for Estate Agents (OEA) received its first formal complaint earlier this year against an estate agent chasing payment for a Home Information Pack (HIP) after the vendor - believing it was free - terminated their services. The OEA issues a warning... or is it advice?!
EPC on Every Home Within 2 Years - 10 Guaranteed Ways
Home Information Packs in a slowing market will thwart Energy Performance Certificate delivery. Here are 10 politically-incorrect ways to guarantee an EPC on every home within 2 years, guaranteed!
Tags: home-information-pack, energy-performance-certificate, government
Video: Shell Oil Scenarios vs George Bush on Energy
As talk of Peak Oil - or easy oil - increases, and with oil blasting through another high of $135/barrel, who has a solution? Oil-man G W Bush, or Shell Oil?
Abolish Home Information Packs: Grant Shapps Renews Call
Grant Shapps, shadow housing minister, is repeating calls to scrap the Home Information Pack (HIP), claiming they are cumbersome and expensive. Yet Connells the estate agents claims the opposite!
Tags: home-information-pack, government, ahipp
Remember this?
Domestic Energy Assessors and Home Inspectors may want to look away.
In Mourning
Expect the unexpected. From the untimely demise of the PC, to the puncturing of an eyeball, to the untimely demise of a true mother.
Tags: debris
Play the Regs
Play the Regs is an interactive way to quickly discover the huge differences between the 2006 Part L1A Regulations and Level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes - Well worth a look for Domestic Energy Assessors or aspiring Code Assessors.
Tags: nher, code-for-sustainable-homes
DEA Numbers: 7304 Accredited
The lastest number of Domestic Energy Assessors accredited to undertake domestic Energy Performance Certificates has risen by 203, it has emerged.
Tags: dea-numbers
New Build Blues for New Energy Assessors
Commercial Energy Assessors (CEAs), On Construction Domestic Energy Assessor (OCDEA) and Code assessors for the Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH) must be questioning their training investment today after Govt figures show falling activity in the non-housing and new-build property sectors.
Tags: NDEA, on-construction-domestic-energy-assessor, Code-for-Sustainable-Homes
EPC Forces Home off Property Market
Mr Graham Glen withdrew his carbon neutral home from sale because of poor Energy Performance Certificate, he claims. His story reveals failings in his Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA), the EPC provider and the RdSAP methodology. It also signals a change in the EPCs influence on property values.
Tags: energy-performance-certificate, Domestic-Energy-Assessor, dea-terms-and-conditions, northgate, ers-ltd
Don't Flash and Do Never Click Me
Domestic Energy Assessors continue to throw money and time on websites to win Energy Assessments but are making some fatal mistakes which punishes their rightful ranking in the search engines - I will mend your ways.
Tags: dea-marketing
IDEA and ECMK Deal Closes Doors for Institute
The Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors (IDEA) has significantly weakened the collective voice of its members as accreditation schemes react to deal with ECMK. Also, claims the Steering Group acted without powers to sign deal.
Tags: idea, institute-of-domestic-energy-assessors, quidos, nher, dawn2dusk
Accreditation Schemes: Survey
As Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) look-ahead to their second year of accreditation, which schemes have produced the goods? Who is providing less-than-satisfactory support? What is the software like? A new survey aims to find out so you can better choose who gets your accreditation fees next year.
Today, We Push the World Closer to Edge
If, as a Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA), you have a hard time convincing clients on climate change, you should instead talk about something far more persuasive: Energy, and food.
DEA Training Manuals and CDs from £2.49
Market forces, they say, will dictate a product's true value. What price then, a DEA training manual? WHat about a DEA training guide? Or even a Home Information Pack? Do the training providers care their courses are sold on eBay?
CLG to Investigate Accreditation Schemes
The representative body for DEAs and Home Inspectors, The Institute of Home Inspection (IHI), has been told by the Housing Minister that accreditation schemes will be investigated following concerns over quality and conduct
Tags: ihi, accreditation-schemes, business-news
Land Registry Staff Work to Rule
Searches within Home Information Packs (HIPs) may take longer as a result of 500 staff working to rule in protest over a below inflation pay offer.
Tags: Home-Information-Pack
Vid: Ireland's Energy Minister Outlines Energy Problem
Refreshing and informative interview with Ireland's Energy Minister, Eamon Ryan, discussing peak oil and climate change. Taxation and energy rationing is part of his plan. Will the UK follow suit?
Tags: peak-oil, climate-change
Estate Agents Suffer Poor Service Levels
It seems some HIP providers, panels and Domestic Energy Assessors are providing poor service levels to estate agents. Maybe you could do better?
Tags: Domestic-Energy-Assessor
DEA Numbers - 11,426
The CLG quietly published the number of Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) up until March 6th 2008. Sorry.
Tags: dea-numbers
Definitive CPD Guide for DEAs and Training Providers
For Domestic Energy Assessors and training providers: Accreditation schemes reveal precisely what DEAs and course providers need to know in order to successfully complete their first year's CPD study.
Tags: BRE, Quidos, Elmhurst, NHER, Stroma, cpd, Domestic-Energy-Assessor, ECMK, RICS
Which? Slams Home Information Packs (HIPs)
The Daily Wail puts its spin on an undercover report published today by the Which? magazine which highlights procedural failings of both Estate Agents and DEAs.
Tags: Home-Information-Pack
The EPC, The Smart Meter and the Green Homes Service
Take the powers of a Domestic Energy Assessor, an Energy Performance Certificate, the Green Homes Service and a smart meter... what have we got? Quite a lot potentially
Tags: epc, green-homes-service, smart-meter, peak-oil
Red Tape Slashed for Domestic Microgeneration
Useful info for DEAs: planning permission no longer required to install certain microgeneration technologies like solar panels on domestic properties from April 6th 2008
That Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors' Post
DEAs piled into the Farewell to the IDEA blog post this week, including the Chief Exec who made some sweeping comments against dissenters and banned himself from this site! So what did we learn and who can resurrect the IDEA, if at all. Oh, and who owns/controls the Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors really?
Quick Green Budget Overview
Alistair Darling's first budget attack on reducing carbon emissions sets higher reduction targets on homes and special attention on cars. A quick overview.
Tags: government
The Healing Power of The Internet
Not DEA or EPC related, just a good news story to warm the cockles of your heart.
Tags: debris
HIP Area Trial Results - An Overview
The CLG leaned on this document many times saying the Home Information Pack area trials would inform it on roll-out and effectiveness. Now its here, what are the lessons learnt and was it worth it?
Tags: Home-Information-Pack, Energy-Performance-Certificate, hcr, government
Home Inspector Training Advert Upheld by ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority has dismissed 11 complaints made against Home Inspector Training Ltd that claimed its DEA and Home Inspector training course advertisements were misleading
Tags: business-news
Farewell to the Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors
The Institute of Domestic Energy Assessors (IDEA) is changing - possibly outside of its remit. Is the IDEA becoming a shopfront for other businesses? Or is it truly representing its members interests? How is it being funded and what has it done for the greater good?
EU Takes UK to Court Over EPBD
The European Commission has issued court proceedings against the UK for failing to adequately explain progress of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Tags: government
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