Reminded today that SAP & EPCs are a nonsense

[Alan Ambrose]

I've been looking at some EPCs on older houses and reminded what a load of nonsense these are.

 

For 11 flats in the same very pretty church conversion:

 

(1) All electrically heated, thick brick walls, and no obvious differences - the EPCs range from F to C.

(2) For the C, the assessor assumed the wall, roof and floor were insulated. Unfortunately, that's not actually true, but doesn't stop the estate agent advertising it as 'C'.

(3) I see for some of these assessments 'Boiler and radiators, electric' scores 'Very Poor', for some, the same scores 'Average'. Maybe something to do with when the EPC was done?

 

 

OK a pretty Georgian house this time, 1870s maybe, no insulation to speak of, single glazed etc:

 

(1) EPC E, fine.

(2) 'Could be' EPC C if you insulate floor, walls, roof, replace boiler, double glaze windows. £250K maybe? And it's in a conservation area, so extra insulation either extremely difficult or impossible.

 

Yeah, a rant.