progress is being made with the EPC C thing

ok progress is being made with the EPC C thing. hopefully more progress by friday. (and then remedial progress thereafter). 

thereafter the people in the houses get a look at it and a chance to agree it all. 

and thenafter the government will announce the outcome of the wave 3 social housing decarbonisation funding. (horsemouth does wish there was some indication of when this will be).

here's how it looks at the moment. the intention is to get all properties to a low EPC C as required by the government and make use of the government wave 3 funding to do it. 

two of the 14 properties are EPC C already. both of these are upstairs flats one of which can be retrofitted as infill (in as far as it helps the downstairs flat).

this leaves 11 properties (out of 8 houses and 4 flats) that can be raised to an EPC C using the wave 3 money and one property that can be insulated and fitted with an air-source heat pump (alternatively if no property is forthcoming then it can just be raised to an EPC C). 

once the outcome of wave 3 is announced then if successful the communal endeavour will enter into negotiations to ensure the government is getting value for money out of the wave 3 moneys and the precise shape of everything will emerge. 

if unsuccessful then the communal endeavour will work out how it is going to do it anyway.

last night a documentary on C5 about heat pumps. 

this morning (out in the wilds) a frost, a cloudless sky, and bright sunshine. tonight bell-ringing (probably). horsemouth still has the remnants of a cough. he will try a walk in a bit. (that reminds him he should go down to the bottom of the drive and pick the bin up).  

his mum had her flu jab yesterday and so it feeling a bit rough and has gone back to bed.