No Fault Evictions

[John Brown]

This did catch my eye:


In its current state it is completely incompetent, run by incompetents and done by incompetents.

To quantify my statement, pal of mine, a car salesman by trade if that is a trade, went on a 1 week course to "qualify" to do them:

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And ironically when the Home information packs were introduced, years ago, cut and paste the last part of the above sentence.

Whatever I may think about the rest of this thread, I have to say that I agree that the EPC assessors are variable, to put it politely. You can get surprisingly different assessments from different operatives, and the assessments do not seem to be remotely scientific.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

This did catch my eye:


In its current state it is completely incompetent, run by incompetents and done by incompetents.

To quantify my statement, pal of mine, a car salesman by trade if that is a trade, went on a 1 week course to "qualify" to do them:

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And ironically when the Home information packs were introduced, years ago, cut and paste the last part of the above sentence.

Run by incompetents? Mine said I could jump from a D to a C by changing to low energy lightbulbs - there was one lamp in the whole place that wasn't low energy. He managed to miss 20 square yards of single sblock wall that should have cavity by regs. when built, though. He did make some recommenadations for improvements, though - that would take 125 years to pay back.

 

[HOJ]

My Mum's 20 year old Bung in North Norfolk was given a D, with the recommendation that adopting the following would change it to a B:



That would only be, by my poor math reckoning, 35 years to pay back, she's 91, and it had the first 3 items already, which somehow was missed in the 20 minutes it took to do the assessment.

 

[Yorkieguy]

I bet Microband is peed off at his place in the scheme of things.

This letter in The Times is worth a read.

It refers to when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor, and given a 'freebie' case of wine, and how he responded to the 'gift'.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

We had a couple of firms here doing the rounds of insulating the roofs of pensioners, people on benefits etc. free. I had had mine done as it was deemed sub standard - it 6"- 8". I found it rather sad that instead of rolling the new stuff over it to bump up the depth, they stripped everything out, threw it away and started from scratch. A diffferent firm did my neighbour's. They didn't take the old stuff out they just topped it up ............... except they rolled the new stuff over everything she had stored in loft.

 

[Jacob]

Whatever I may think about the rest of this thread, I have to say that I agree that the EPC assessors are variable, to put it politely. You can get surprisingly different assessments from different operatives, and the assessments do not seem to be remotely scientific.

We had our last building done (converted chapel) by the delegated local chap (random choice, not ours) and he turned out to be a well qualified and experienced building surveyor with a proactive interest in the whole issue. He looked very closely at all sorts of things, asked me a lot of questions about the conversion, looked closely at photos of work in progress etc.
100% professional job. We got C.
If they are not up to the job I blame the employers (the government).
The idea is obviously a very good one and we'll have to hope it improves and develops.
Must not allow the moaning un-wokerati to run it into the ground, as they do with so many things.

 

[Jacob]

But its socialism that allows and enables people to milk the system.

What a weird thing to say! The whole point of de-regulation, neo liberalism, market economy, conservatism, de-regulation, right wingism, capitalism, whatever you want to call it, is to allow people to milk the system. Everybody knows this - it's the whole point! The ideology says it will all work out for the best in the end.
The whole point of socialism in it's many forms and varieties is to control this for the benefit of the many, not the few. Driven by practical necessity not ideology.