Central heating from Warmfront? Also rent offer Q...

[AccidentalMum]

Has anyone actually managed to get this? I am looking at renting a house without central heating and read that a £4000 grant is available if central heating is recommended. Would be worried that the landlord would chuck me out once he had his heating paid for though!

Also, I was wondering how much less than standard local rent/ crazy advertised rent of £700 you would offer for a property that had no heating, smelled a bit of dog and had been on the market for a while .

Oh and would £4000 go towards heating, or cover it do you think?

hopeful bump

I really don't know anything about the rental market but I've just recently been looking in to WarmFront. I thought the grant was a max of £2700? I just applied online and I had an email saying that an assessor will be in touch before the 17th March to arrange coming round. I read that they decide what improvements need doing. Our house doesn't have central heating so I'm hoping that they will realise that is the most important thing. It says they can provide the boiler and up to 5 radiators but there are various stipulations e.g. one radiator must be in the qualifying person's bedroom, one must be in the main living room (annoying for us as that's the room which is warm as it has an open fire!). But they could decide that loft insulation, or secondary glazing, etc are higher priority. They also do things in the cheapest way (I think) so all pipes etc go on the outside of the walls (not trunked in or anything) but you can pay on top of the grant to have that done.

Sorry not to be of much help but the Warm Front website is pretty useful and you can apply online and will instantly know if you qualify.

Just be aware Weegle that the contractor who ends up doing your heating/insulation or whatever you have done includes the VAT on his total bill as there have been cases where homeowners/tenants have been told a price for the work which is under £2700 but hasn't included the VAT on the quote.

They've then had the work done and been presented with the final bill which has gone way over the £2700 mark because of the VAT and you are then liable to pay this difference.

A girl at school got one and was very happy with everything she recieved if they try to add vat and give you a bill tell them to fuck off that's not part of the deal and they will get struck off for trying it on.

Thanks for that info.

Weegle, It says £4000 if central heating is recommended . The house I am looking at has only 4 rooms so hopefully that will cover it.

oh, I thought it said £2700 or £4000 if oil central heating is recommended - we are on mains gas here so I suspect they would recommend gas CH.

Anyway, had a call earlier and s surveyor is coming tomorrow to do the assessment. I'm a little concerned, having done some more reading today that says they only supply combi boilers. DH is adamant not to have a combi (bad previous experience) so not sure we'll get anywhere as they decide what's most important and offer that so I don't think I can say we'll do the CH and they do say, the loft insulation. We'll see!

Bobbins...I must have misread,oh well maybe Landlord will want to pitch in.

Why so anti combi boilers? I would never go back to a tank now by choice.

I'm not sure as I haven't experience of them but I think the problem is you can never run a full bath (as they heat on demand so can't heat the amount of water up quickly enough) or if someone is having a shower and someone else turns the hot tap on, you might get frozen... that's what DH says, but for all I know combi boilers have changed a lot.

We have a good new one and it is amazing, in fact it has a small tank as well, so water is always hot out of the tap straight away too.

that's really good to read as I've just been researching CH systems (ready for tomorrow ) and I really can't see what DH's problem is... I think combis have come on a long way since he had one. So can you run a bath and the washing machine be on, and someone flush a loo and all is ok?