{"id":8545,"date":"2024-03-26T07:15:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8545"},"modified":"2024-03-26T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:15:17","slug":"interpreting-an-epc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/03\/26\/interpreting-an-epc\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting an EPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading my neighbours' energy performance certificates. \u00a0This did not involve snooping or asking intrusive questions as they (if they exist) are all on line. \u00a0You can check up <a href=\"https:\/\/find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk\/find-a-certificate\/search-by-postcode?\">on your street<\/a> here. \u00a0This is <a href=\"https:\/\/find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk\/find-a-certificate\/search-by-street-name-and-town?street_name=Paxcroft+Way&amp;town=Trowbridge\">an example<\/a> (not my street).<\/p>\n<p>If you compare what the reports say (a tedious task) you quickly realise that what they say either seems to depend on who the assessor is, or is subject to nuances that are obscured in the report. \u00a0For example, how can \"fully double glazed\" be rated both <a href=\"https:\/\/find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk\/energy-certificate\/9131-2329-6192-2922-4041\">average<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk\/energy-certificate\/8632-5221-9200-0752-0292\">good<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes they are ridiculous; one of my neighbours was told they could improve their rating by installing a wind turbine \u2013 though none of the others were. \u00a0I can't see Wiltshire Council planners liking that one little bit \u2013 or we neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been reading my neighbours' energy performance certificates. \u00a0This did not involve snooping or asking intrusive questions as they (if they exist) are all on line. \u00a0You can check up on your street here. \u00a0This is an example (not my...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}