The Scheme Administrator is the organisation tasked with overseeing the delivery of the Green Homes Grant Voucher Scheme.
The Scheme Administrator approves all the applications and is responsible for releasing the payment to the installers when they are ready to redeem the voucher.
The Scheme Administrator for the Green Homes Grant Scheme is ICF Consulting Services Limited.
Check on the Simple Energy Advice website to find relevant installers, but we suggest you make it a wider area search.
CAfS offers a free advice call through our Cold to Cosy Homes service, and we can tell you about all schemes in the area.
Ask local authorities if they have a scheme running using qualified installers.
Please also see the FAQ on installers in Cumbria.
No, the Green Homes Grant is only available for homeowners, landlords of residential properties and housing associations.
No. To qualify for the voucher you need to use a registered installer.
At the moment all work under the Green Homes Grant Scheme must be completed by 31 March 2022. (The original date was end of March 2021, but this has now been extended.) It may be further extended if there is more demand.
The government has introduced this scheme to create jobs as well as to improve the energy efficiency of UK homes.
The industry is not very big, so it has to hire and train more installers to be able to deliver this scheme.
In order to protect homeowners, the government has insisted that only certified professional installers should be allowed to carry out the work under this scheme.
This means that installers have to go through a stringent certification process for each type of measure they wish to install, and this takes time.
There are suitable installers for all the measures across the whole of England. As the registration only went live on 30 September, however, not all the installers have been able to complete the registration process yet.
There is a shortage of insulation installers qualified to carry out work for park homes in particular, as the standards of expertise required for them are much more stringent due to the nature of the buildings, so qualification takes slightly longer.
As we hear of more installers completing their registration in Cumbria, we will update the FAQs. For now, see our FAQ on installers in Cumbria.
It could be that you need to expand your search area to, say, 100 miles, because installers register via their head office but may, in fact, cover the whole county.
The insistence on properly certified installers is important, as you don’t want untrained people working on your house. Badly installed energy-efficiency measures could cause structural damage and health problems in homes. (Also, mortgage and insurance companies don’t like botched building works that could reduce the value of a property.)
You need to look for an installer that is listed as a Trustmark B13 Park Home Insulation Installer.
Nobody else can provide the work with the necessary guarantees and insurances to allow you to get the grant voucher.
All installers working on insulating Park Homes MUST HAVE Trustmark registration under PAS2030:2019 part B13 : Park Home Insulation Installer and follow PAS2035 standards.
(At present CIGA is the only Trustmark Scheme Provider that is providing Trustmark Registration for Park Homes Insulation Installers.)
Yes. They also must be registered with Trustmark first.
For heat pumps (ground-, air- and water-source), solar thermal (liquid-filled flat plate or evacuated tube collectors) and biomass boilers, the installer should also be MCS certified.
Under Trustmark rules all installers have to operate to PAS 2030:2017, 2030:2019 or PAS 2035:2019 standards.
Park homes
All installers working on insulating park homes MUST HAVE Trustmark registration under PAS2030:2019 part B13 : Park Home Insulation Installer and follow PAS2035 standards
(At present CIGA is the only Trustmark Scheme Provider that is providing Trustmark Registration for Park Homes Insulation Installers.)
The Application
*NOTE: The government guidance is to get an EPC done for your property (or use an existing one if it’s not more than three years old) and get recommendations on top for the measures that are included in the Green Homes Grant scheme. The guidance also states that you should get independent advice from a source other than an installer. You will be required to tick a box on the application saying you have taken advice or are happy with your own investigations.
So you’ll need:
The Installation
Completion
The full live list of installers registered under Green Homes Grant is available on the Simple Energy Advice website.
Please check there for the latest information.
As of 4 November 2020, we’re aware of the following installers working in Cumbria:
Thrift Energy
They work on all forms of insulation and work with Eden and Carlisle councils on ECOFlex schemes.
They will do external/internal walls under the Green Homes Grant scheme. For cavity wall and loft or room insulation they say they are more likely to move a client to the ECO3 scheme because of the lack of time to get work done under the Green Homes Grant.
Tel: 0800 689 3415
Direct Savings
They deal with renewable heat incentive (RHI), room-in-roof insulation, loft, floor, cavity and solid-wall insulation (internal and external).
They also work with some of the local councils.
Tel: 01506 444161
Email: [email protected]
Union Technical
They are working on all insulation under the Green Homes Grant in Cumbria and work alongside Carlisle City Council on an ECOFlex scheme.
Tel: 0800 046 9190
Email: [email protected]
We are collecting details of installers available to work in Cumbria, as and when we find them. We’re keen to add more here, so do inform us if you find one so that we can share. Thank you!