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less money to find when I put this old house on the market. As LP said hoooo booody raaayy!!
I think it was a complete waste of my money for something that was to us completely and utterly useless. A tool to save gazumping my ar$e!
Fair doos with the efficiency thingymybob, I don't mind that. A few quid for that is much better than paying over 250 quid or more that would be better used under the wobbly table in the corner :-)

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Thank god... Common sense they werethe biggest waste of money going, I feel for the people that reckon they spent a fortune being trained to do them... Especially seen as the surveyor at my employer were just doing them anyway and like ed says in about 20 minutes by desktop.

They really were worthless.

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Why fairdoos with the efficiency thingy? Surely you can see if someone has low energy light bulbs, thermostatic controls on the rads and a boiler that's not running on coal?!

The only thing you couldn't tell from a cursory glance is whether a property has cavity wall insulation - which costs less to install than the HIP in the first place!

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hoorah....i didnt mind paying it was just the fact thay they held no basis so both the purcherser and seller had to pay for the same checks to be done...

fukin joke...

good riddance..

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Well true, but a comparable 1970s home is built to a lower insulations standard than a current new home but is valued similarly? So this shows relative standards. Also it should show up anything a homeowner has done to improve things, like thicker loft insulation, after market cavity wall insulation, better double glazing etc.

However, the truth is far from that, the blokey that came round my place did not look in the loft - I had to tell him that there was 250mm not standard 60mm (for the age of the house) of loft insulation, he made no allowance for the fact that the garage conversion has underfloor insulation etc. He wanted to be in and out in 10 minutes to maximise his return.

Oh the other thing you cannot check for with cursory glance is underfloor insulation, required by building regs since 2006 IIRC, but fitted by most self-builders and quality builders for years. Blokey's computer seemed incapable of making these additional allowances and he was not going to spend time doing them manually as that cut his profit.

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How bloody stupid would you have to be if you were going to part with £150k and not check these things yourself?

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Bout time too.

The HIP idea was a good one but was only carried out half arsed.

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News to me, result though, might move next year.

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Will be v pleased to act for you:D:D

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So Ed-dude, how might this affect (if at all) those of us who are midway through a purchase? ;)