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Unfortunately this mad flurry of cash brought all the cowboys and shysters out of the woodwork, and many retrofit jobs were either done without due care and attention, done when they shouldn't have been
Yeah. Can’t help but feel this is what has been happening again over the last five years or so. As soon as grants come out, so do the tricksters.
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Listen to my tale of woe:
A while back, after the UK signed up to the Kyoto Protocols, the Government thought it would be a wizard wheeze to hand out grants to homeowners wanting to insulate their properties. Over the past 35 years, millions of homes in the UK have been retrofitted with cavity wall insulation (CWI) to "improve energy efficiency".
Unfortunately this mad flurry of cash brought all the cowboys and shysters out of the woodwork, and many retrofit jobs were either done without due care and attention, done when they shouldn't have been, or in some extreme cases, claimed to have been done and actually not done at all.
This is a national scandal on par with the cladding fiasco, and affected homeowners are finding it hard to get recompense.
The one thing everyone seems to agree on is that putting CWI into a house with timber beams (as opposed to a brick external and concrete block internal structure) is a massively bad idea, as the timber has no ventilation and any moisture which gets in can cause rot.
Enter yours truly, who's just found out that the previous owner of his (timber-framed) house had CWI installed a good few years ago, and that no-one will buy said house until it's been hoovered out at great expense, and been given the all-clear that it won't collapse in the next strong breeze.
Very stressful, would not recommend.