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Published 25 September 2026.

Who provides the check

FeasibilityLab is a trading name operated by an individual sole trader established and operating in England and Wales. Our correspondence address is 55 Percival Road, Enfield, EN1 1QS, England. Contact hello@feasibilitylab.co.uk or use our contact form.

These terms cover the Home Energy Optimiser free check for homes in England and Wales. It is free to use without an account or email sign-up. Using it does not order a paid service. Planning Check and any future paid assessment have separate terms.

What your result means

The check gives a readiness indication based on a public EPC record or details you enter, your answers and published rules and policy. It does not inspect the property, run a building-energy calculation, predict a future EPC rating or certify compliance. It is not an EPC and cannot be lodged.

Improvement and funding cards are options to investigate. They do not confirm suitability, grant eligibility, costs, savings or a guaranteed result. Obtain appropriate professional advice before commissioning work or relying on a result for a legal or financial decision. Using this information tool does not appoint FeasibilityLab as your professional adviser.

Records and corrections

An EPC describes an earlier assessment. We do not independently verify that it still describes the property or that your answers are correct. Corrections apply to this visit; they do not update the official EPC register. An unsuccessful lookup does not establish that no EPC exists.

An expired EPC can help you explore the property's recorded condition. It does not establish a current rating or meet a requirement for a valid certificate. A new assessment may produce a different rating. Where the register has no expiry field, we calculate expiry as ten years from lodgement. A newer certificate may supersede it.

The check cannot determine every tenancy or exemption's legal position. It does not transfer a landlord's responsibilities to a tenant.

Rules and sources

Current law, confirmed government policy awaiting legislation, and proposals are different. Future measures may change before they take effect. The sources register records the sources and individual checked dates. Those dates are not the date you ran the check.

Sources are reviewed on the published 90-day cycle. A previous result is not updated retrospectively. Check current official guidance and run the check again when circumstances change.

Availability and acceptable use

The service depends on external providers and may be interrupted, changed or withdrawn. Manual entry is available when you cannot obtain a register record. Do not overload the website, introduce malicious material, bypass access controls or use it unlawfully. Access may be restricted to protect the service and other visitors.

Content and licences

FeasibilityLab owns or licenses its original content and interface. You may use the check for its intended purpose. Third-party licences and any rights they grant continue to apply.

MHCLG certificate information other than address fields and postcodes, including the Ordnance Survey UPRN, is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Address information has separate restrictions: see the copyright and database right notice.

Responsibility and complaints

The check has the limits described above. Nothing in these terms excludes liability where exclusion would be unlawful, including fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. Your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected.

Contact hello@feasibilitylab.co.uk if information appears wrong or you have a complaint. These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, subject to the mandatory protections and court rights that apply where you live.

We will date published revisions and explain material changes. Our energy privacy notice explains the check, optional statistics and separate email permissions.

Where these claims come from

Every regulatory statement on this site traces to a named primary source and the date we last checked it. The chip says how settled each one is: in legislation means it is law today, confirmed policy means a government response has settled it but the Act or SI has not been made, and proposed means it is still an intention.

Privately rented homes generally need at least an EPC E before they can be let.
In legislation PRS Regulations 2015, in force since 2020 · checked 2026-08-28
That minimum rises to the equivalent of EPC C by 1 October 2030, unless a valid exemption applies.
Confirmed policy DESNZ government response, 21 Jan 2026 · checked 2026-08-28
Government currently plans to launch reformed EPCs in the second half of 2027.
Current government timetable — not a statutory date EPB reform update, March 2026 & Clean Flexibility Roadmap update, July 2026 · checked 2026-09-04
A qualifying C or above obtained before 1 October 2029 is expected to stay recognised until it expires or is replaced.
Confirmed policy DESNZ government response, 21 Jan 2026 · checked 2026-08-28
For properties covered by the planned 2030 rules, landlords would be required to spend up to £10,000 per property over ten years. Properties valued below £100,000 have a lower cap, set at 10% of the property’s value. A cost-cap exemption could be registered where the required spend reaches the applicable cap and the property still does not meet the new standard.
Confirmed policy DESNZ government response, 21 Jan 2026 · checked 2026-08-28
Boiler Upgrade Scheme funding does not count towards that cap. Other third-party funding, including Warm Homes: Local Grant and ECO4, does.
Confirmed policy DESNZ government response, 21 Jan 2026 · checked 2026-08-28
The Future Homes Standard sets requirements for new homes in England only, in force 24 March 2027.
In legislation SI 2026/335 · checked 2026-08-28

Next full review 2026-11-26, ninety days from the 28 August re-verification. The earlier 18 November date is superseded — the targeted checks on 2 and 4 September did not restart the cycle. Every claim carries its checked date, so one that has gone out of date shows as one.

Update log

2026-08-20
All live regulatory claims re-verified.
2026-08-23
Reformed EPC timing recorded as the second half of 2027, superseding an earlier October 2026 reference.
2026-08-28
All claims re-verified against primary sources. The 2030 standard moved from “proposed” to a government decision awaiting legislation. The claim that grant funding stacks outside the cost cap was withdrawn as wrong for everything except the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.
2026-09-02
Three findings from the government response changed what this site says. Landlords are in no circumstances required to replace a working heating system to meet the 2030 standard. Spend counts towards the 2030 cost cap from 1 October 2025, and from October 2017 for today’s minimum. Missing C on the Energy Efficiency Rating by 1 October 2029 requires two further EPCs, both counting towards the cap.
2026-09-04
Four corrections. The second-half-of-2027 reformed-EPC timetable was re-checked and stands, but was attributed to the wrong document; it now cites the March 2026 EPB reform update and the July 2026 Clean Flexibility Roadmap update, and is labelled a current government timetable rather than a statutory date. The £9,000 off-gas heat pump grant is a value the scheme notice sets directly, not a figure added up here. The Energy Efficiency Rating continuity claim was softened from “will not give identical results” to “may differ”. The cost cap and penalty figures were withdrawn from holiday and short-term let results, which sit outside the private-rented-sector minimum.

Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail copyright and database right notice

This data contains address data (address 1, address 2, address 3, postcode) processed against Ordnance Survey’s AddressBase Premium product, which incorporates Royal Mail’s PAF® database. MHCLG has published the address data with the consent of Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited. Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited reserve all their respective copyright, database rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited permit the use of address data solely for specific purposes related to the energy performance of buildings. This check relies on one of them: promotion and better understanding of the current energy efficiency of buildings and potential improvement in the building sale or rental markets, and by building occupiers or users. Where address data is published or otherwise shared for a permitted purpose, a copy of this notice must accompany it. Any use not specified in the notice, or not covered by a copyright exception, requires a licence from Ordnance Survey. Enquiries: PricingLicensing@os.uk and address.management@royalmail.com.

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