Energy performance certificates explained

As a professional in the business I would point out that these EPC's are indeed a means of making money not just now but for the future as what is more than likely to happen is that councils will not only charge you standard council tax but will in time include an 'add on' for the energy performance rating you are on. In other words this is going to be yet another stealth tax!

Biggest load of beurocratic nonsense I've ever heard.
WHO on earth believes this stuff?
Clearly regarded as a vote winner though.
A sad reflection on the voting population I'd say.
Maybe Guy Fawkes had a point.

EPCs are a waste of time and cost and probably consume more energy creating than they are ever likely to save. As someone looking for a house I haven't bothered to read them and I don't care about the rating. If I like the house, location and price then I'll buy it regardless of the EPC rating.

If as they say (and I thoroughly dispute) that energy assessors are 'professional' then I suggest that everyone who feels that the Energy Report does not deal fairly with the property should make a formal complaint. The only way to make government come to their senses is to make it more awkward for them to continue their position than to abandon it. If each and every energy report that contained errors attracted a complaint to the government from the seller then surprise surprise, they will suddenly be found to be unnecessary.

I also question the merits of having a virtual stranger tramp through your home. Being an accredited energy assesor gives you access to a great deal of potential information that could be uses by a criminal element to steal your idendity or worse. At least estate agents and most surveyors are visible in the community and have offices you can view before you instruct them. What controls are there on energy assessors?. They are likely operating out of their front room. More typical government bungling.

Unfortunately, the energy assessment is a legal requirement - blame europe for that.
The rest of the HIP is just down to Tony.
It's supposed to speed up a sale - it won't.
It's supposed to save the planet - it won't.
But the energy assessment might encourage buyers to consider spending a bit on grant-assisted loft and cavity wall insulation - payback time in months rather than years.
The assessment is supposed to allow buyers to compare different houses using very basic assumptions worked out from property age, size, type of heating etc, not how many jumpers and hats the current owner may or may not wear in bed!
It's been done with fridges and freezers - I defy anyone to find an E or G rated fridge for sale - they are all A, A+ or AAA rated now - consumer demand. A home is different - location location location - but as energy prices rise the home's energy rating WILL influence the buyers decision, like it or not.
It may take years to take effect, but how much energy a house uses will eventually be as important as how many bedrooms it has.

In response to the points ‘disgruntled vendor’ makes regarding the costs of the utility bills shown on the EPC report, these figures are derived from a standard occupancy and standard heating patterns assumptions that the EPC software uses. This is so that it is the house, not the current occupier, whom is being rated to make it fair when comparing different houses.

Which still will leave him with a report that VASTLY exaggerates what he DOES spend on these things - rather than showing copies of bills to buyers (as I would happily do) and saving the waste of money on the idiot that visited and the "expensive" but rubbish software, oh, and the piles of paper that all these "reports" will require!

We can save the Environment more easily getting rid of junk mail, and unnecessary forms and getting away from a World that needs a new car every two years, and a newer and bigger TV every year, and three holidays abroad every year, and that thinks it is okay to scrap mobile phones every few months so that industry can get richer, whilst wasting all that energy (and causing lots of polution as well)!

Get real folks! A few light bulbs (which I do have) are not the problem, nor is the double glazing - none of these measures will make an iota of difference to saving our planet until we get shot of "consumerism" and make products that we are proud to say "last" (especially cars) and repairable items instead of throw-aways. THAT is what is going to be necessary to make radical differences: the rest is just hype from Governments that know that Industry will go ape, if they actually tell the so and so's that built in obsolescence is no longer viable!!!

To change all the lights to low energy bulbs would cost app £100, anything below 20W is not worth using, also requiring me to change some switches from dimmers,more expense, and when I sell and move will these bulbs be included in the contents list ? I think not.

If your assessment does not include your multi fuel fire then it is wrong.
Running heating on carbon neutral fuel such as wood will affect your results so you need to get the Assessor back so that they can correct the report.
Newly built Houses will not achieve top marks for the simple reason that if they did; what result would you give to Houses that are built in a few years time to even higher levels of insulation?

If your Energy Assessment does not include your multi fuel fire it is wrong. Heating using carbon neutral fuel does affect the results so you need to get it corrected. Call the assessor back and point out the error. They should then correct their mistake.