To think Energy Performance Certificates are full of crap?

[AlanBstardMP]

Selling our house at the moment and have just had the EPC - we're currently rated a 'D' when apparently the house (late victorian terrace) could be a 'B' rating.

The top recommendations are very expensive and probably not all that appropriate for the type of house so I'm a bit surprised by them. The top rec is internal wall installation for a cost of 4-14k. Projected savings would be just shy of 500 every 3 years. Err yeah, so hardly realistic then. The other recommendations are a suspended floor (up to 2k cost, savings of 130 every 3 years) and solar water heating (up to 6k cost with a saving of 100 over 3 years). So there's no realistic consideration of cost then?

Really do people even give much of a toss about this stuff? I get that if the boiler was really old or something you might be interested but something like that would come up in a survey anyway. How useful exactly are EPCs?

Yes, I've heard that the plan is to link the EPC with your Council Tax (Scotland). A rated homes paying far less than F rated.

That's crazy. Anyone living in an old house who can't afford to do it up will have to pay more than someone living in a new house who had spare cash to convert into solar panels.