Dodgy Energy Performance Certificates are being issued that are not worth the paper they are written on.
They are ‘strewn with schoolboy errors’ and ‘glaring omissions’, according to Communities and Local Government, in a warning to the accreditation schemes that are meant to police the regime.
CLG has accused the schemes of failing to catch unacceptable or invalid EPCs, and of allowing Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) to lodge reports when their membership has run out, or if they have been expelled from other accreditation schemes for disciplinary reasons.
In a letter from CLG, written to the accreditation schemes and leaked to the website Home Inspectors Forum, CLG also announces tougher disciplinary procedures that will now face the schemes if they fail to uphold standards.
There will now be spot checks and mystery shopping.
According to one of the accreditation schemes, NHER, more than half its DEAs have lodged less than 75 EPCs.
Separately, a leading EPC provider has warned that false economies are being made on ‘cheap as chips’ Domestic Energy Assessor (DEA) services and that it is unclear where the agent’s liability stands, if the agent has commissioned the EPC.
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