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You have many good reason to want to improve your home. Perhaps you would like to give your home added value. They may be looking to make short-term home improvements to make it simpler to be selling it now. Perhaps you just want to make it a more comfortable, more comfortable home for you and your loved ones.

Neutral information and hints on monetary questions can be found on the website "Money Advisory Service".

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Home Scotland Home Loan will help house owners achieve better home savings and better home use. The interest-free loan is financed by the Government of Scotland and is currently available for application. Financing of up to 38,500 per home is available to owner-occupiers and accredited licensed privatesector lessors in Scotland.

A number of enhancements have been made, including: power accumulators. Repayment subsidies are also available for a restricted period for certain specific improvement of overall levels of inertia. To apply or for more information, please call Home energy Scotland on 0808 808 2282 (free from landline and most mobile phones).

Financing is based on the first-come, first-served principle and is dependent on uptime. If you are making several upgrades, the overall financing for your project is £15,000. Cash back financing is only possible if you request and take out a loan. It is not possible to request separate cash back financing.

An indicative list of the maximal resources available for each upgrade is given in the following chart. For every upgrade, there is a financing ceiling that will cover both cash back and loans. If available, reimbursement will be up to 25 per cent of the costs of improving or 25 per cent of the funds claimed by the claimant, whichever is the lower, up to the ceiling indicated below.

And the rest is provided as an interest-free loan. When you install exterior walls isolation, you can get our information package to help you design your home. Interest-free loan financing may be provided for up to 100% of the stated cost of installations or the limit stated below, whichever is the lower.

Up to two RES schemes can be applied for per home up to a value of 17,500 and one up to a value of 6,000. They can only request an accumulator, e.g. a thermal or electrical one. When applying for an electricity saving system, you must also file an application for a RES system or have an established RES system to which it is linked.

Select how long you want to pay back the loan up to the following max. term. Any other improvement in power consumption does not require the use of a particular fitter. Renewable home power system requires it to be the plumber and your choice of product: Certifies to the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) conditions for the system you install, excluding micro-hydroystems.

That is only true for thermal power plants, bio-mass and hot domestic hot water. For the installation of an accumulator system, the fitter must: be MCS-certified for the renewable power system that operates alongside the accumulator; be a member of a Trading Standards Institute-accredited user coding scheme that addresses accumulator function; comply with the Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET) codes of conduct (for electrical accumulators only).

You can find a complete listing of MCS-certified fitters on the Microgeneration Certification System website. For more information about MCS-certified installation engineers near you, use our Renewables Installer Finder utility, which includes custom ratings. All or part of the cogeneration system must be operated from a renewables fuel and the system must be authorised for financing under this loan system.

If you would like to ask about the applicability of a particular system, please refer to Home Energyscotland. Connecting fitter must be authorised as owner/operator of the system. Entitlement to connect to local heat systems shall be reviewed on a case-by-case to case-by-case assessment and the mixture of fuels shall contain a minimal share of renewables.

What kind of improvement can I request? A satisfactory reported assessment must commend the requested improvement. It must be annexed to the request. In case you only want to improve your power consumption, the work must be certified by an EPC. When you are only submitting an EPC for renewable energies, the system must be endorsed in an EPC or Home Scotland consultant brief.

When you apply for renewable energies and improvement of power consumption, the improvement must be reported in an EPC and/or Home Energys Scotland consultant review. You do not need an energetic certificate if you apply only for a natural gas supply and a heating system. Application for an ESS - all requests (even if other actions are requested that require a different report) must also be supported by proof of eligibility from a Home Scotland expert certifying that a rechargeable power supply may be appropriate for your area.

If you are considering installing a photovoltaic system and applying for the feed-in pricing system, please be aware that your EPC must be D or better prior to installing your photovoltaic system and must be date assessed and qualified for the higher feed-in tariffs. Upon receipt of an request, we will verify your entitlement and conduct affordable and loan audits prior to making an offering.

The work on an investment may begin only after receipt of a loan quotation in writing. As soon as you get a loan quote, you don't have more than six month to do the work and take advantage of your financing. An EPC must be installed by all EPCs before they can obtain financing.

EPC costs before and/or after EPC deployment can be added to the loan. The attic and hollow walls must be insulated, if commended in the project reports, by the date on which the subsidy is used. More information on the approval requirements is available from Home Energyscotland on 0808 808 2282.

When you install a photovoltaic system and are planning to enter the feed-in tariff system, you should consider the following: When applying for the Home Energy Scotland loan programme, you must file an EPC after your photovoltaic system has been installed to obtain your loan.

That means you can't use the same EPC to enter the feed-in system (to get the higher tariff) and get a loan from Home Energy Scotland. Please be aware, however, that the use of the Home Energy Scotland loan does not constitute a warranty for the use of the feed-in rate or any other system.

Is it possible to link other assistance to the Home Energy Scotland loan programme? Home Energy Scotland's loan can be paired with several other programmes and incentive packages. For more information, please call Home Energy Scotland on 0808 808 2282. RHI renewables incentive - If you are installing an eligable renewables heating system, this UK government programme will pay you for the renewables you produce.

FITs - If you are installing an eligable renewables based energy source you will be paid by the UK government for the renewables you produce. If you are considering installing a photovoltaic system and applying for the feed-in pricing system, please be aware that your EPC must be D or better prior to installing your photovoltaic system and must be date assessed and qualified for the higher feed-in tariffs.

Home Energy Scotland is the only company that can request an order from you. The program requires that you speak to Home Energy Scotland in person to obtain unbiased guidance about your home and make a choice about the best option for you. It is not permitted for third persons, such as plumbers or rental agencies, to submit applications on your name.

The work on an asset may only begin when you have received a written loan proposal. Subsequent prospective claimants who subsequently obtain financing will be subject to an administration charge of 1.5% of the entire loan value up to a limit of 150 per pound per claims. For more information about how the system works, see below.

You will find the full credit details in the request from. Can anyone submit an applicant? Requests may be made by owner-occupiers and certain registrated hirers of the Scottish privatesector. A landlord can request up to 3 homes that must currently be inhabited by one or more lessees or have one or more lessees within 30 working days of payment of the loan.

This loan is only available to lessors who act as "natural persons". Enterprises owning and renting local real estate, such as public corporations, charitable organisations, individual entrepreneurs and twinning enterprises, are not covered under this system but can be supported under the SME loan. In the case of new constructions under development, where the real estate is already in the ownership of the planned owner-occupier, it is also possible to promote renewable energies or long-distance heat supply, but not to improve it.

Please contact Home Energy Scotland free of charge on 0808 808 2282 for further information and to apply for an entry visa. Qualified consultants are available to help determine how to improve your home, how to cut your petrol bills and CO2 emission, and how to make your home hotter. Pages about renewable energies to learn more about domestic renewable energy sources.

Energiespeicherseiten to learn more about storing power. Home Scotland's specialised consultants can discuss with you in detail the possibilities of regenerative energies for your home. At the same tome they will also deal with improving overall levels of energetic performance. For more information on home owners who have upgraded their houses with green building schemes or increased power efficiencies, visit the Green Houses Network.

You can use our Home Energyscreen to find out how you can get lower electricity billings and a more convenient home. Please contact Home Energys cotland free of charge for further information on the admission requirements and to apply for an entry visa.