Another tiny grain of government stupidity

[thinfourth2]

As you probably know houses need an energy certificate before you can sell them. This is to encourage us to tread the green path and use greener forms of heating like running your entire house hold heating off biomass so your heating is carbon neutral

We do already run our house on biomass as we use a log fired stove which gives us hot water and runs all the radiators

So you think we would have a really good score on our energy rating

Nope

We have a poor score due to the fact that the government software that surveyors have to use for calculating our CO2 rating doesn't actually have an option for biomass heating


MORONS

[Fish]

It can be manually entered if you have someone who knows what they are doing

[JJCW]

Fish said:

It can be manually entered if you have someone who knows what they are doing

So virtually impossible then?

[Mr Whippy]

JJCW said:

Fish said:

It can be manually entered if you have someone who knows what they are doing

So virtually impossible then?

[OnTheOverrun]

thinfourth2 said:

We do already run our house on biomass as we use a log fired stove which gives us hot water and runs all the radiators

So you run your house on biomass and logs and run some cars that puff out hardly any CO2?

Evidently it's your fault we're having a crap summer! Replace the hippy heating with something that runs off a coal-fired power station and swap the cars for ones that cost at least £400 a year to tax and we might just get enough global warming going to get a tan.

You really are letting the side down you know!

[thinfourth2]

OnTheOverrun said:

thinfourth2 said:

We do already run our house on biomass as we use a log fired stove which gives us hot water and runs all the radiators

So you run your house on biomass and logs and run some cars that puff out hardly any CO2?

Evidently it's your fault we're having a crap summer! Replace the hippy heating with something that runs off a coal-fired power station and swap the cars for ones that cost at least £400 a year to tax and we might just get enough global warming going to get a tan.

You really are letting the side down you know!

So I should buy some modern computer on wheels and bin the V8 defender hybrid running on carbs


No thanks

[amsie]

Fish said:

It can be manually entered if you have someone who knows what they are doing

But that would involve a jnr in a department filling in a form, putting it in the system, which would get lost, then filling in the form again, sending it to his manager only to discover that it needs to be sent to another dept and the cycle would continue over and over again.....

[DSM2]

We are thinking of relocating in coming months and have been looking regularly at the available properties of our preference and bulding a list of potential options and their various pros and cons.

You know what feature we rarely consider? The propoerties energy efficiency rating.

I cannot conceive of it being a deciding factor in any purchase and so wonder what on earth the point is?

[Parrot of Doom]

Correct me if I'm wrong but if there isn't an option for Biomass, by default your house must not be heated, and is therefore incredibly green?