Futureproof
Full Home Retrofit Survey & Plan

A Futureproof Survey is a detailed whole house survey with a bespoke options appraisal report, which recommends the most cost-effective and impactful energy and carbon reduction measures for your home. It will include:

• Home visit and full survey – Firstly one of our expert retrofit surveyors visits your home to conduct a full measured survey to understand how your house performs.

• Detailed guidance – We’ll consider all the options most relevant to your home, carrying our detailed energy modelling based on your actual energy consumption, and your priorities in terms of cost saving, comfort and carbon.

• Comprehensive report – then we’ll create a detailed, bespoke report (80+ pages), which presents a range of recommended retrofit scenarios for your home. In this report we’ll look at all the measures you could implement, and focus on those that can deliver the biggest impacts for you, based on the objectives that you want to achieve, such as saving carbon, saving money and/or improvements to comfort. With each scenario we’ll show you the likely costs involved, what savings you might expect, how works could be phased over time, and highlight issues you may need to address before or alongside undertaking the work, such as planning requirements.

• Debrief session – after you’ve received your report, there’s an opportunity for a follow up consultation (up to an hour) so that you can ask any questions and explore next steps.

While a detailed Futureproof Survey is a powerful tool to help you understand the options most suitable for your home, it does have limitations:

• It does not cover any separate buildings such as a separate annex building, only the main property.

• It does not recommend specific contractors to carry out retrofit works.

• It does not tell you exactly what action to take – instead, it makes recommendations and presents scenarios that can help you decide your preferred course of action.

• It does not include securing statutory permissions (planning, building control etc).

• It’s not a detailed retrofit works specification, and so doesn’t include bespoke retrofit solutions for specific parts of the house (e.g. construction detail drawings), prescribe which materials or construction methodology should be used, or specify particular systems or products.

• It does not typically involve invasive work during the survey.

If you are unsure whether the detailed retrofit survey and plan is the right service for you, please email us at home.energy@bwce.coop to arrange a suitable time for one of our team to call you.

To allow time for our analysis and review process you’ll receive your report within 20 working days from the date of your survey.

During the booking process, you will be asked to provide consent for us to apply for a Retrofit West voucher on your behalf. We recommend that you do not submit a voucher application yourself, as vouchers are only valid for 6 weeks from the date of approval. This 6-week period must allow sufficient time for your assessment to take place and for us to complete report writing and quality assurance before your final report is issued. 

To ensure there is sufficient time to complete your assessment, invoicing, report writing and quality assurance before the voucher expires, we will normally apply for the voucher approximately 7 days before your booked assessment date and you will be invoiced just after your assessment has taken place.  

To avoid any issues with voucher expiry, please book your assessment as soon as possible. If you need to re-schedule, we will need to reapply for a new voucher on your behalf and please keep in mind that funding is limited and subject to availability. 

Our Futureproof Surveys are suitable for all homes, including listing buildings.

However, if you live in a listed building, you might want to consider joining our Listed Building Champion Scheme, through which you can receive a discounted Home Energy Efficiency Plan together with additional discounted advice on which energy efficiency measures are most likely to receive Listed Building Consent.

Read about our Listed Building Champion Scheme to find out more.

Futureproof Surveys are available through us for all residents of Bath & North East Somerset, and from our partners the Centre for Sustainable Energy for households elsewhere in the West of England and Wiltshire.

If you live outside of B&NES then you can visit www.futureproof.uk.net to find out availability and pricing in your area.

Let our Retrofit Advisor guide you through the options by getting in touch.