Improve Your EPC Rating with 4 Top Tips

Never has energy efficiency been more important. With rising costs, people are actively looking at EPC ratings when purchasing or renting a house or how to improve an EPC rating.

Here are 4 top tips to help you improve your house or your BTL property.

1. Install Energy-Efficient Lighting

Replacing your old incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient bulbs, is a quick and easy way to score a few extra points on your EPC.

2. Glazing

If you have single glazed windows, upgrading to new double glazed will make your EPC higher by several points. Double glazing doesn’t add as many points as loft or wall insulation, but if you do not have double glazing, it could improve your score by up to 10 points.

Triple glazing will further reduce the amount of heat that escapes through the windows, however the improvement on the EPC score will be minimal.

3. Loft Insulation

The simplest way to improve your EPC rating is to ensure your loft insulation is 270mm thick. This can improve the score by 10 – 15 points, whilst even a top up on existing insulation can get 2-5 points.

Good loft insulation will reduce the energy that can escape through the roof.

4. Replace Your Old Boiler

Upgrading your boiler to a new model may be costly but will massively improve your rating by 5-20 points depending on the age of the current system.

If your property has an EPC certificate already but you have made further improvements that would impact the rating, ensure you have all documentation to show the EPC assessors. If the work installed is inaccessible, assumptions could be made which would impact your score negatively. With documentation, an assessor is able to confirm the work has been carried out, improving your rating significantly.

As a whole of market mortgage broker, we can find great deals for new green mortgages. These mortgages offer exclusive rates for properties with an EPC rating of A-C which are 5 years and older.

These rates have been designed to support the improvement of existing buy to let properties in reducing carbon emissions and providing a greener future.

✔ EPC rating of A-C

✔ Properties 5 years or older

✔ Holiday Lets

✔ Product Transfers

✔ Rates starting from 2.79%

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