The builder, Fairview, arranged to have extra insulation installed, which she says has made a difference.A spokesperson for Fairview said the firm did not want to respond to the BBC's request for comment.
But beyond this issue - which Mr Fairlie says is an "unknown quantity" - he believes there is something more fundamentally wrong with using EPCs to try to cut carbon emissions. "If you want to bring up the carbon emissions, which is already on the EPC but they're just not as in-your-face as we would like, they're further down the document - bring it up, put it up front and centre.
According to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, homes were responsible for 22% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions in 2018. But when the BBC asked an EPC assessor to evaluate a home after an air source heat pump had been installed, the home's EPC score increased by only one point and it remained at the same B rating.
"If you say I'm going to get to C, that's a good cost metric, but what we want to see is... an A to G on your carbon emissions."
LOL what a shock
Oh no, you didn't expect all the things being forced down our throats by the media to be cheaper and actually work did you?
Duh 😂
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