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Yeah I would say you do an informal survey, which would see which other extra's are needed. I would expect to give the customers the completed survey in the Handover pack.
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I might be a bit out of touch but I trained to do EPC's about 3/4 years ago. It takes ages to do the EPC - a lot longer than a pv survey and it takes more time again to put it all into the software. If you're in the customer's house longer than 2 hours you're in breach of the REAL and if you spend your time doing the EPC how can you sell to your customers?
It takes long enough as it is to do a decent survey and keep on top of the software without adding EPC complications to it. Only my opinion, but my background is in the energy efficiency industry and I worked with EPC's and previous incarnations of it with SAP and it's a load of extra hassle you could probably do without.
Maybe a good idea to go out with an assessor and see how it's done before you jump in and pay loads more for training and have to put up with even more monitoring from outside bodies.
It takes long enough as it is to do a decent survey and keep on top of the software without adding EPC complications to it. Only my opinion, but my background is in the energy efficiency industry and I worked with EPC's and previous incarnations of it with SAP and it's a load of extra hassle you could probably do without.
Maybe a good idea to go out with an assessor and see how it's done before you jump in and pay loads more for training and have to put up with even more monitoring from outside bodies.
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I am a fully accredited Domestic Energy Assessor working in South Wales (I've also got my 17th Edition and Part 'P' as well ).
The cost of qualifying including the training course, tools, overnight accommodation whilst at training course, diesel, etc.... costs over £2k. It takes quite a few EPCs before you really know what you are doing and this may have a substantial effect on whether you will sell a PV array or not (as you must get that all important 'D' rating)
My advice would be to contract out to a local DEA who will charge between £50- £100 per job and build a good relationship with them.
ALTERNATIVELY, maybe you should use the DEA as the salesman. Quite a lot of us have done the PV surveyor course as free CPD for our DEA accreditation and as a DEA can carry out the EPC therefore eliminating the customer having to be inconvenienced by having two people (the salesman and the DEA) visit there home. It also means you dont have to 'employ' two people
I'm on - [email protected] if you need any advice
The cost of qualifying including the training course, tools, overnight accommodation whilst at training course, diesel, etc.... costs over £2k. It takes quite a few EPCs before you really know what you are doing and this may have a substantial effect on whether you will sell a PV array or not (as you must get that all important 'D' rating)
My advice would be to contract out to a local DEA who will charge between £50- £100 per job and build a good relationship with them.
ALTERNATIVELY, maybe you should use the DEA as the salesman. Quite a lot of us have done the PV surveyor course as free CPD for our DEA accreditation and as a DEA can carry out the EPC therefore eliminating the customer having to be inconvenienced by having two people (the salesman and the DEA) visit there home. It also means you dont have to 'employ' two people
I'm on - [email protected] if you need any advice
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