Like any doctor would examine a patient and their symptoms we need to assess the health of your home and analyse where it can improve. This comes in the form of a home assessment.
How do we diagnose your home’s health?
Like any doctor would examine a patient and their symptoms we need to assess the health of your home and analyse where it can improve. This comes in the form of a home assessment. A home assessment involves an accredited surveyor spending 1-2 hours assessing your home and talking to you about your priorities for eco-home improvements.
The information they compile will go on to form your Furbnow Home Energy Plan and details the jobs you need to be carried out, their cost, and the timeframes for putting them in place. We can then arrange the work to be carried out for you or can leave it with you.
Here’s what you can expect to do down on the day of the assessment:
- The session will kick off with a chat about your home
The surveyor will ask questions about your ambitions for your home, how long you’d like the work to take and the kind of budget you have to work with. They’ll also give information on the kind of disruption the work would cause and what the work would look like.
- They’ll then carry out the inspection of your home inline with retrofit regs
This is formally known as the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) and gives the surveyor a detailed breakdown of the energy efficiency in the house. SAP looks at how much energy your property is using when providing a specific level of warmth and comfort. It breaks this down by room, provides a rating which also takes into account your fuel costs and the emissions of your home.
The surveyor will also do a ventilation report that’ll look at things like windows and cavity’s to see how much water and air is passing though your home.
This all takes about an hour or so, and the surveyor can show themselves out so you can get on with your day.
Once you’ve had your assessment this information is then sent to a retrofit coordinator who compiles the data into an easy to understand dashboard which outlines your home’s energy rating, it’s areas in need of improvement and the jobs
