"DM" wrote in message
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David Hansen wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:17:50 +0100 someone who may be D Moodie
wrote this:-

I wonder if this is the cost after some sort of grant.

Others have pointed out that they got insulation for a similar
price, without any grant.


Apparently so, personally I don't know the full details of any of these
... and I'm not really that interested in chasing them up either. But any
decent reference I come across still puts the costs at close to £500, for
example.

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/...ll_insulation/

http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/article89.html

Sure people may have paid much less than this either with a grant included
up front as in your case or simply as a hidden part of the deal by the
installer.

So my conclusion, from any information I've come across, rather than just
hearsay, would still tend to be that the cost is close to £500, and an
installer may well charge in the region of £300 after they've claimed the
appropriate grant.

In January 1993 we paid something over £300 for cavity wall insulation,
accompanied by the mocking of neighbours (just as they did in January 2005
when installed solar water heating). They said it wouldn't make any
difference to anyone except the company which did it.

SWI was quite rare in those days and we weren't eligible for a grant. We
felt the difference in comfort immediately, we didn't measure any money
saving but that wasn't the purpose.

In the last year all those mocking neighbours (people rarely leave this
street except in a box) have had CWI installed - because they don't have to
pay for it. I wonder if it's making a difference to anyone other than the
company which did it ...

Mary