Home Insulation Grants

The older ECO3 scheme ended recently and has been replaced by ECO4. This came with a number of changes to the eligibility criteria, including the removal of the following benefits: Armed Forces Independence Payment, Carer’s Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Constant Attendance Allowance, Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Severe Disablement Allowance, and War Pensions Mobility Supplement (WPMS).

While landlords themselves can’t claim, tenants can if they qualify and the proposed work will change the EPC sufficiently to warrant the grant. It may be that you can encourage your tenants to apply if they are eligible.

It was always part of the plan to release the ECO grant funding in stages, focussing on different elements of home energy efficiency as they progressed. Despite the success of previous ECO schemes, some of the changes in ECO4 have been made to tackle perceived issues with ECO3. This includes providing for a larger range of funding for more vulnerable, low-income homes.

Our talented team at Invictus can discuss basic eligibility with you over the phone, however we still need to get a surveyor out to you to properly assess and document the proposed work to successfully apply for the grant. Fortunately, we seldom have customers waiting over a week for this, and we are often able to start work within 7 days of you making contact with us for the first time.

The reasons that the UK Government is funding things like insulation and more efficient boilers are twofold.

Firstly, because studies have shown that running an energy inefficient home is costly, and not every household can afford to do the work themselves and must rely on grants to get the work done. It’s a way of supporting low-income homes and lifting people out of fuel poverty.

Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, is the effect of inefficient energy usage on climate change. The UK government (as well as many other governments around the world) have made big commitments to lower their carbon emissions to “net zero”.

To achieve this, the UK needs to use its energy more efficiently, and that includes at a domestic level. If homes across the UK can generate heat more efficiently because of modern boilers and heatpumps, while retaining more of that heat (which reduces the requirements of the boiler), then this can go a long way to helping the UK reach Net Zero.

Retrofitting refers to the methods that can be used to make an old house more energy efficient with the addition of modern insulating materials.

At Invictus Energy Group, we have trained and qualified retrofitters who can enter a home and establish which measures (such as loft or underfloor insulation) would be suitable for that building, and the effect this would have on the building’s EPC rating.

At their core, yes. The money is accessed via the largest energy companies however the grants are part of the Government’s efforts to combat climate change and fuel poverty.

If home insulation is well-planned and correctly fitted it can make a huge difference to your energy bills and the warmth in your home.

Older homes like some of the UK’s millions of Victorian Terraced houses and 1930’s semi detached homes were never properly insulated, or have been let down by poorly fitted insulation work, expanding foam insulation or were simply neglected.

Our trained and qualified surveyors and fitters are skilled at advising on which energy-saving insulation measures can be applied to your home, and can show you how this will effect your EPC rating, producing a noticeable difference in how warm your home is and how much you need to rely on your boiler next Winter.