About us
Getting an EPC costs
money and takes weeks.
It should not require a site visit and a fortnight's wait to find out whether loft insulation is worth it. We built the version that runs from photographs.
Why we exist
The information gap
UK homes produce around a fifth of the country's carbon emissions, and most of the fix is unglamorous: insulation, draught proofing, heating controls. The barrier is rarely willingness. It is that finding out what your specific home needs has meant paying an assessor and waiting.
So people guess. They insulate the loft that was already done and skip the cavity walls that were not, or they buy a heat pump for a house that leaks heat faster than the pump can supply it. The order matters, and nobody tells them what it is.
We read photographs the way an assessor reads a property, rank the improvements that actually move your rating, and check which government schemes will pay for part of the work.
What we hold to
Three things we will not trade away
These are the commitments that decide what the product does when the easy answer and the honest one disagree.
A grade should show its working
An EPC arrives as a letter with no explanation of how it was reached. Every grade we produce states what it was based on — how many photos, which bills, which EPC record — so you can judge it for yourself.
The advice has to be costed
Knowing your home is a D is not useful on its own. What matters is which improvement moves it, what that costs, how long it takes to pay back, and whether a grant covers part of it.
Say what we cannot see
Photographs of the outside of a house cannot tell you what is in the walls. Where the evidence is thin, the report says so, with a confidence range rather than false precision.
What this is not
The honest limits
This is not a substitute for an accredited EPC. If you are selling or letting a property you still need the official certificate from a registered assessor, and our grade carries no legal standing.
What it is instead is the thing you want before that: a fast, cheap read on where your home stands and what is worth doing, so that when an assessor or installer does arrive, you already know what you are asking for.
See where your home stands
Takes about two minutes. No site visit, no obligation, nothing to install.
Check my home