UK government grants, BUS scheme, and funding guides
Grant scammers borrow real scheme names — and real deadlines — to pressure you into upfront fees. Here are the red flags in order of reliability, how each…
ECO4 is a Great Britain scheme that ends on 31 December 2026, and it never covered Northern Ireland. Here is exactly where NI households can go instead, with…
GOV.UK explicitly allows second homes, rentals and business-owned property to claim the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, one grant per property. With the £9,000 window for oil and LPG homes…
An EPC survey costs £60 to £120 in 2026 and takes under an hour. What the assessor checks under RdSAP 10, why receipts now matter, and how to…
Most energy grants only fund existing homes — but self-builders get a deliberate Boiler Upgrade Scheme exception, a VAT refund scheme worth thousands, and zero-rated energy-saving materials until…
Under the Warm Homes: Local Grant a landlord's first eligible rental is fully funded and each further one needs a 50% contribution, with caps of £16,600 for energy…
A like-for-like oil boiler costs £2,500–£4,500 with no grant. A heat pump could cost less than that net of the £9,000 oil-home uplift — but only in the…
LPG is the most expensive fossil fuel to heat with — and it sits outside Ofgem's price cap. We compare 2026 running costs against heat pumps, oil and…
Around 4 million UK homes are off the gas grid. We compare every realistic heating option — heat pumps, oil, LPG, HVO, biomass, storage heaters — on installed…
The standard heat pump grant stays at £7,500, but homes heated by oil or LPG with no mains gas connection can claim £9,000 on applications made between 21…