When I bought my house a year and a half ago, the BER for the house was C1. I saw the Cert before buying the house, knew it was a very good rating and was happy with it.
Roll on to now. I got a new boiler put in and needed a new BER survey carried out to avail of the SEI grant. So, it made sense to go back to the original guy who had carried out the survey for the previous homeowner this time two years ago.
When I got the new cert back from him, my rating had gone from a C1 to a D1. He didn't give any explanation as to why this was, so I contacted him to ask why. He told me that the floor area submitted for the original cert was incorrect and so the original rating should have been D2 not C1.
This seems nuts to me. He carried out the original survey so it was obviously his fault. He is not accepting any responsibility.
Should I/ can I do anything about this? I haven't replied to him yet.
OK, I would have bought the house anyway, but that is beside the point. There is a huge difference between a C1 and a D2 Cert. From living in the house and seeing the amount of heat loss there is, I knew it couldn't be as energy efficient as it was supposed to be.
The whole thing just seems really dodgy and suspicious.
Any advice????
Roll on to now. I got a new boiler put in and needed a new BER survey carried out to avail of the SEI grant. So, it made sense to go back to the original guy who had carried out the survey for the previous homeowner this time two years ago.
When I got the new cert back from him, my rating had gone from a C1 to a D1. He didn't give any explanation as to why this was, so I contacted him to ask why. He told me that the floor area submitted for the original cert was incorrect and so the original rating should have been D2 not C1.
This seems nuts to me. He carried out the original survey so it was obviously his fault. He is not accepting any responsibility.
Should I/ can I do anything about this? I haven't replied to him yet.
OK, I would have bought the house anyway, but that is beside the point. There is a huge difference between a C1 and a D2 Cert. From living in the house and seeing the amount of heat loss there is, I knew it couldn't be as energy efficient as it was supposed to be.
The whole thing just seems really dodgy and suspicious.
Any advice????