Energy Performance Certificates

You've got to have one now if you want to sell your house, rent out or even continue to market under an existing sale.

Anyone have any experience of having these things done?

I hear a lot of moaning but they actually seem quite a good idea to me.. which i find a bit odd because I usually stick the tinfoil anti-authority hat on when I come across this sort of thing 

not heard of it obviusly not in that market but what does it entail

as i do own a quater of a house 

Not experienced having to get one but know when hubbie was still working all the boilers he fitted had to have some kind of certificate

Aye just had a boiler fitted Jack, had fellers crawling all over it with test meters at the end & I have lots of important looking technical  bits of paper now. The new one is 30% more efficient than the old one apparrently, it gets extra heat back out of the exhaust pipe

It's just like some kind of booklet that says how energy efficient a building is. Gives some kind of a rough guide to likely running costs I think. You have to pay some kind of accredited assessor to come round and use some european union approved calculator program, stick allsorts of stuff in like, do you have loft insulation, is the boiler a low fuel consumption one, have you got double glazing etc etc etc etc

It spits out a grade kinda like council tax bands, think it's band A thru band G. one end is the most efficient, the other end the least.

If someone's the sort of landlord that keeps a property in good modern condition as a normal part of their business it shouldn't really worry them as they should more or less get a goodish grade anyway, if otoh they're a skinflint that won't maintain the property properly it would end up putting them in a less efficient band & thus making the property less attractive to potential tenants.

should encourage people to invest in stuff that's good for reducing co2 emissions 

if anyone's looking for a job, getting accredited as an assessor might be a handy string to add to the bow.. dunno how much the training costs

Assessing would be good for hubbie to get into once all his treatment is over and he can hopefully return to work