The government's commitment to making homes more energy-efficient extends through various schemes and funding sources, ultimately contributing to reducing fuel poverty, creating warmer homes, and reducing carbon

The monumental task of decarbonising the UK's homes demands an immense retrofit effort, with the construction sector at the forefront.

New research reveals retrofit could boost the sale value of your home by an average of £10,000, and the added value could be even higher for individual properties - depending on the measures and

Cosy Homes Oxfordshire is delighted to be sponsoring the Clean and Green Award for building traders in Oxfordshire as part of JACK FM’s Brick Awards. Nominees can join us for a glitzy ceremony at the Bodleian Library on 7 October 2022. We’ll be

Since 2008, it has been compulsory for landlords to obtain an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of ‘E’ for a property they lease. EPCs tell prospective tenants and buyers how energy efficient a property is on a scale of A to G, with A

An Energy Systems Catapult project working across the UK with funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has found there is no property type or architectural era that is unsuitable for a heat

“Cosy Homes Oxfordshire allowed me to receive a £5,000 VAT refund from my home retrofit work that I hadn’t expected to ever see again – thank you so much!” said Trish Lunel, one of our early clients. Rules on value-added tax (VAT) – the

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has reported that the national shortage of construction materials is getting worse. With the UK opening up after a series of lockdowns, construction activity is at the highest rate in the past seven years. But, this

How many green jobs could be created in your constituency? This new tool from the Green New Deal team can tell you, and help you lobby your local MP to put them in place. Green New Deal are highlighting the jobs lost during the Covid-19 pandemic, and calling

Hundreds of thousands of new job roles are needed if we are to achieve a clean energy transition and meet net zero targets in the UK. Dina Potter of the National Grid believes that investing in young people is key to this, and that we now need to ensure that

Ashden is calling for a revolution in green skills training, following the scrapping of the Green Homes Grant scheme in March 2021. If we are to retrofit millions of homes and stick to our carbon targets, the UK must drastically scale

In March 2021 we’re hosting a Low Carbon Homes online event for Oxfordshire, focused on the key barrier for increasing the uptake of home retrofit – the supply chain. The event will run over three mornings, and sessions will include both speaker

The UK has one of the oldest stocks of housing in Europe, dating back to eras before energy efficiency in design was encouraged or enforced. This leads to millions of people living in houses which are costing us money, our health, and our planet. But, there

A team of researchers at Nottingham Trent University has concluded that people working from home in the UK can expect their energy bills to increase by up to £45 per month. Their research also demonstrates the gap between energy efficient homes and those

The National Register of Tradeswomen is a not-for-profit project set up to ensure that vulnerable householders who would feel safer working with tradeswomen are easily able to find them. “Women are scared to allow tradesmen into their home, not only out of

There’s huge opportunity in retrofit for the building and construction industry – here’s why The UK government has set a target committing to become a net zero carbon emissions economy by 2050, as recommended by the Committee on Climate

Cosy Homes Oxfordshire is a one-stop home retrofit service connecting homeowners with skilled building professionals to deliver high-quality retrofit work, under one seamless programme.  We work with building professionals, contracted as Retrofit

Over the past year we’ve been building up our pool of trusted, local building contractors to work on home retrofit projects through Cosy Homes Oxfordshire. This has been successful and we’ve brought lots of contractors