Gary Carter
Making Retrofit More Affordable: Optimising Your Retrofit Funding
In this blog post, we’ll introduce some of the key principles of funding for getting energy efficiency measures installed into homes and get
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Get Free Grant Funding To Implement Energy Efficiency Measures In Your Home
Millions of pounds of government backed funding is available, right now, to help home owners pay for energy efficiency measures for their homes to reduce energy costs, make homes warmer and do your bit for the environment. We'll get the funding for you to make it happen.
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Free Funding To Install Energy Efficiency Measures In Your Home
We support home owners to obtain free grant funding packages to make make their homes warmer, reduce energy bills and do their bit towards achieving net zero. Home energy efficiency upgrades are expensive so we've made it our mission to get grant funding into the hands of those that need it. Up to 100% of the cost of energy efficiency improvements could be funded. Use our eligibility checker to see if you're eligible today!
Funding Schemes for Home Upgrades
Free Grant Funding For Solar PV
With the United Kingdom having declared a climate emergency, we now all have a part to play in moving towards a net zero future. Even though each of us would contribute hugely to this effort by installing eco measures in our homes, that is often not enough motivation to get work done, especially if it costs us money. The good news is that there is free grant funding available which in many cases will cover the full cost of work and in others will make a significant contribution, meaning the home owners contribution would be a lot lower. We also mustn't forget that implementing eco measures also provide benefit to the homeowner in respect of energy bills and warmer, healthier homes which all in all adds up to a pretty good benefits package for home owners that go ahead.
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Free Grant Funding For Home Insulation
The various forms of household insulation are designed to trap warm air, that you've paid to heat, within your home. An un-insulated or poorly insulated property will leak heat through its walls, roof and floor. If a home is well insulated and the warm air has nowhere to go, because its trapped, then you need to pay for less heat to keep it warm, saving you money.
Insulating your home, sometimes referred to as a fabric first approach, is a key part of ensuring your home is energy efficient, as cheap to heat as possible and nice and warm through the colder months.
External wall insulation
Internal wall insulation
Cavity wall insulation
Roof and loft insulation
What We Do For Home Owners
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We're experts in helping home owners find funding or financial support that could contribute to, or pay outright, the cost of implementing energy efficiency measures in your home. These measures, such as roof, floor and cavity wall insulation, central heating controls, eco friendly heating such as heat pumps, solar PV and more will help you reduce your carbon emissions, keep your home warmer and reduce the money spent on heating your home.
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There is funding available today from government and energy company backed schemes but it can be hard to find and to then go through the correct process to ensure you're successful. We use our knowledge of all the available funding sources to find you the best and most funding possible.
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We'll deal with all the complexity of eligibility, applying for funding and everything that comes with that so that you don't need to. We'll guide you through the process to include gathering all the information required for an application and identifying eligibility, through to having a home assessment carried out and then onto finishing all the paperwork after the work has been done to your home. Our services for doing this don't cost you anything, we get paid a small proportion out of the funding that gets granted.
We don't get involved in any building work ourselves, so will introduce you to a building contractor who is accredited to do the work. You can rest easy that the quality of the work will be assured as all contractors doing this type of work have to be accredited by TrustMark which is a government endorsed quality scheme for work done in and around the home.
Optify was set up to ensure more funding for energy efficiency measures gets into the right hands. We're passionate about supporting the decarbonisation agenda and have made it our mission to help individuals and businesses to do their bit to tackle the climate crisis which also helps more people out of fuel poverty, more people have warmer, healthier homes and more people save money on energy costs.
Integrity and trust is important to us. From day one, we committed to donating a percentage of our net profit back into funding further research into decarbonisation and energy efficiency.
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Here's what the end to end process looks like for obtaining funding and getting energy efficiency measures installed:
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Complete our eligibility checker here. The eligibility checker tool will provide you with immediate feedback about whether you'd be likely to qualify for free funding. Note that this feedback is not a final decision and is not an offer of funding. More information will be needed and further checks undertaken to confirm eligibility. We'll send a confirmation of the result of the eligibility check to the email address you provided to us.
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We’ll check all the details you've provided against the funding eligibility rules. Not everyone and not every home will qualify. You can read our FAQ for home owners here for more details on eligibility or get in touch to learn more
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If the first stage of our assessment suggests eligibility for funding, we'll provide your details to our partner firm of retrofit assessors who are qualified to assess what eco measures a home needs and what benefits each measure will deliver for your home. The assessor will undertake a desktop study to establish if our funding is likely to be valid for you and your home. You’ll be notified either way and if the assessor concludes that our funding is likely to be valid, they will contact you to arrange a date and time for them to visit you to undertake a home survey
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Once the retrofit assessor has conducted their survey, they'll provide a report that documents whether work is feasible and will save enough energy to make it viable. Where eco measures have been recommended by the assessor, the report will show the work that a building contractor can undertake using the funding we'll provide. The entire installation design, management and installation process will be overseen by a qualified and independent Retrofit Coordinator, therefore providing peace of mind to the homeowner
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We or your Retrofit Assessor will connect you with TrustMark certified contractors in your region. Trustmark is the only UK government endorsed assurance scheme in the UK
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Once the work is complete, the building contractor will need to submit evidence the work has been done to the required standard and assuming everything is in order, the contractor gets paid from the funding we found
How To Take The First Step To A Warmer Home
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The Benefits Of Considering Green Measures For Your Home
With the United Kingdom having declared a climate emergency, we now all have a part to play in moving towards a net zero future. Even though each of us would contribute hugely to this effort by installing eco measures in our homes, that is often not enough motivation to get work done, especially if it costs us money. The good news is that there is of course funding available which in many cases will cover the full cost of work and in others will make a significant contribution, meaning the home owners contribution would be a lot lower. We also mustn't forget that implementing eco measures also provide benefit to the homeowner in respect of energy bills and warmer, healthier homes which all in all adds up to a pretty good benefits package for home owners that go ahead.
Save money on energy bills
Have a healthier home
Have a warmer home
Contribute towards net zero
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Free Grant Funding For Heating Upgrades
How we heat our homes is set to change. The government has said that installation of gas boilers into new build homes will be stopped from 2025 although there is no current plan to ban gas boilers entirely meaning that homes heated by gas boilers won’t be forced to find alternative means of heating.
It could however be in your interests to upgrade to a modern boiler as they are much more efficient than their older counterparts and will therefore require less energy to heat your home meaning emissions are lower and the cost of heating your home reduces. Likewise, there are now high efficiency electric storage heaters on the market that outperform their older counterparts too.
Add to the mix the growing market for air source heat pumps which are becoming an important part of the heating market and there are many ways you could potentially reduce your energy consumption and therefore energy costs as well as do your bit towards the UK’s net zero objectives.
The funding schemes we have access to are providing free grants to homeowners to replace older less efficient heat sources with newer versions. There is also free funding available for home owners to install ‘first time central heating’ for homes that have never had central heating installed before.
Use our eligibility checker today to find out if you and your home could qualify for one of these grants.
Boiler upgrades
High efficiency storage heaters
Air source heat pumps
First time central heating
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