Home Energy Surveys – Comprehensive Reports for Better Energy Efficiency

Compliant Retrofits specializes in providing professional home energy surveys that find inefficiencies in how your home uses energy, and showing you how you can make small changes to save on your utility bills, increase your comfort and reduce carbon emissions. We have a team of experienced assessors, conducting detailed reports and providing practical solutions to help homeowner make better energy decisions. A home energy survey is the first step toward sustainable living, whether to plan for home improvements, or simply reduce consumption.

What Is a Home Energy Survey and Why Does It Matter?

A home energy survey is an organized evaluation for how energy that is consumed, lost, or wasted by your home. This gives you a clear picture of what areas of your house are not performing well, and what you can do to make them more efficient and run you less cost.

The Purpose of a Home Energy Audit

The checklist is more than just a checklist’it is the data driven analysis about your home specifically geared to its unique structure and your lifestyle. Homeowners get access to the tools to:

  • Learn about how energy is used currently and where inefficiencies exist.
  • Identify where heat is lost or overconsumed from room to room.
  • You will receive a residential energy audit report that contains recommendations for priority.
  • Update your plan with upgraded insulation, Windows, heating systems or a different kind of lighting.
  • Our audits are performed by accredited professionals based on official building standards and produce reliable and actionable results.
  • Our audits are based on official building standards and conducted by accredited professionals, ensuring reliable results.

Benefits of a Home Energy Efficiency Assessment

By booking for a home energy efficiency assessment, you are placing money into your property’s long term value and green performance.

  • Identify and reduce waste to reduce energy bills.
  • It also makes for an improvement on home comfort by reducing drafts and temperature differences.
  • Have lower carbon footprint if your home energy conservation measures are targeted.
  • Make your home more energy efficient and increase its resale value.
  • Prepare for regulations and for EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) upgrades.
  • Your energy data is transformed into a home energy saving report for you to have some clarity and confidence in what your next steps are.
Experienced assessor conducting a detailed home energy survey to identify energy inefficiencies.

What to Expect During a Home Energy Survey

Surveys are detailed, non intrusive and focused on results at Compliant Retrofits. We take you through each step of the way, and are completely transparent and easy to understand.

The Energy Audit Process Step-by-Step

The elements of our building energy survey usually comprise:

  • Inspection of the property’s exterior and interior for insulation and structural inefficiencies through visual inspection.
  • Thermal imaging for detecting heat loss about windows, doors and walls.
  • Historical reviews of utility bills to accurately gauge the influx of energy from years past.
  • Estimation of age, condition, and performance of heating and cooling systems.
  • Lighting audit that shows a means of becoming more efficient and where upgrade opportunities exist.
  • Checking the ventilation / airflow performance, finding poorly performing zones.
  • Achieving the final residential energy audit report, which includes the energy performance current of the premises and recommended actions.

What’s Included in the Energy Audit Report for Residential Properties

Your residential properties energy audit report includes:

  • Summary of findings with photographs and thermal images.
  • An itemized list, which is ranked by cost and impact, of recommended improvements.
  • ROI estimates for each upgrade (loft insulation, boiler replacement etc.).
  • It can be used as a home energy efficiency measures checklist.
  • Next steps tailored to your goals and budget.
  • Options relating to support which may have to be implemented for the recommended upgrades.

Take Control of Your Home's Energy Usage Today

Do you want to start controlling your home’s energy usage? Contact Compliant Retrofits today to organise your home energy survey and get an easy to understand, in depth report that will set you on the right path to letting you know where you can save. According to the government, the average band on the EPC rating was C. Use our online form to schedule for a survey or call us for an immediate booking!

Common Areas of Energy Loss Identified in Surveys

Avoidable energy waste is likely in most, if not all homes, especially older ones. In most cases, our home energy surveys find problems in the following areas:

Insulation and Building Envelope

One of the main causes of heat loss is poor insulation. We give you all of our data and recommendations to insulate effectively and cheaply.

  • If the loft insulation is thin or nonexistent, a great deal of heat leaves your property through the roof.
  • Heat Loss across Uninsulated Cavity Walls can amount to 35% of the total.
  • The cold air is allowed to come through the floor from below with the floorboards uninsulated.
  • Unsealed drafty windows and doors waste conditioned air.

Heating and Cooling Systems

They tend to be outdated and oversized, so they are inefficiency heating systems.

  • Boilers that are not efficient use more gas or oil than needed for temperatures to remain warm.
  • Energy management in zone is not possible in radiator systems without thermostatic controls.
  • Over 20% of heat can be lost through an air leak in ductwork or underfloor systems.
  • Without smart controls, we waste energy during the hours when we are not there.
  • Heating system upgrades are among the first things we will audit for you as part of your home improvements energy audit.

Appliances, Lighting, and Hot Water Systems

We look at your daily life and assess how it affects energy use.

  • Old refrigerators or tumble dryers can be major culprits in high consumption appliances.
  • Halogen bulbs or non LED lights use too much power.
  • Moreover, systems such as hot water systems without insulation or timers generate standby losses.
  • But smart plug ins or timers can make tremendous savings if used wisely.
  • These are often discounted factors that are very cost effective in reducing energy use.

How Homeowners Can Use the Energy Consumption Report

Taking action is where the real value of a home energy survey is found. The report on energy consumption for homes is usable and impactful.

Planning Home Improvements Strategically

We help you using the data from your audit.

  • Distinguishing “quick wins” you can quickly save as draught-proofing or LED replacement.
  • Consider medium term projects such as cavity wall insulation and your boiler.
  • An investment that prepares you for when you will need it partly or completely: solar PV installations or maybe a full heating overhaul.
  • Apply for grants or incentives related to home energy efficient assessment reports.

Improving EPC Ratings and Meeting Compliance

Improving EPC scores (often needed when selling or renting homes) is also helped along by your energy audit.

  • Guidance is included in the report on which measures will increase your EPC banding.
  • Generated new EPCs after improvement.
  • Solutions are intended to follow EPC compliance upgrade improvement services to stay ahead of any future changes.
  • An audit can help boost your property’s attractiveness if you plan to sell or rent.

Why Choose Compliant Retrofits for Your Home Energy Audit

We believe that we can create something bigger when you have the complete support of an experienced team, not to mention the tools and knowledge to make real change happen.

Certified and Experienced Professionals

  • Our assessors are all UK Accredited in accordance with UK Accreditation schemes.
  • We have years of field experience residential energy auditing.
  • We stay up to date with our latest technologies and building standards. One of our main attributes is grants.

Independent and Objective Reporting

We don’t recommend services with the intention of selling products.

  • Our reports are easy to understand, transparent, and very comprehensive.
  • Our installation installers and suppliers are only from trusted partners.

Ongoing Support After the Survey

  • From these consultations and post survey, you are able to prioritize improvements.
  • We provide project support for insulation, heating or renewables installations.
  • Annual check in’s keep your home running efficient after upgrade.

FAQs

What is a home energy survey?

A home energy survey is the professional assessment of how a home performs in terms of its heating, insulation, other appliances and its ventilation. This creates an efficient score report and upgrade recommendations.

The length of a home energy audit can be between 1.5 and 3 hours, depending on the size of the property. We make sure to take our time to inspect and explain all findings to our team.
Yes. You will then receive a full residential energy audit report filled with photos, data and prioritized recommendations.
Absolutely. Most homeowners net between 10 – 30% savings on energy bills and may also receive incentives or funding to offset improvement costs.
Yes. Our audits are to help improve EPC ratings and scores for buildings, which contains guidance on which changes will be required for the higher EPC ratings.
However, since efficiency decreases over time, we recommend an audit every 5–7 years, or just whenever major work is done on your house.