Say someone got the central heating installed on a gov grant basis and the property was rented via a private landlord and the tenant decided to move could he rip out the CH and replace it with the conventional boiler and tank as it was before CH installed and take the CH with him?
I wouldn't have thought he'd be able to do this for several reasons though:
the damage that would be left behind
the grant was provided at that specific property
It poses a couple more questions tbh, like was he honest in his grant application - did he present his "case" as though he owned the property himself ?
Has this "strip out" work already happened, or is the tenant threatening to do it ?
Depending on how long it's been installed, it may be the older non- condensing type, which afaik is now pretty much illegal to fit to a standard property unless there are specific reasons why one can't be used.
Plus the cost of re-installing the old kit which is (a) probably not allowed anyway as it will be effectively installing a new boiler which doesn't meet modern requirements; and (b) would need to be done totally above board by a CORGI to keep the landlord happy and fulfil requirements for letting in the future - so no chance of a cheap diy job in case that's what the OP was considering.
It would also be necessary to make good the whole property exactly as it was when it was rented, which would probably be a pretty tall order I suspect; the OP would be liable for any costs incurred by the landlord in so doing.
Obviously this is a totally daft idea. Let me guess - the landlord and tenant are not on speaking terms here, right?
Quite so there is a spectrum of what are movable assets and what are fixed. The heating system of a building is somewhere between and around the light switches and floor boards end.
So are you saying that it was the "tenant" who applied for and got the CH under some scheme . Did he tell lies to do this and if so why on earth would someone install CH in a property he did not own .?
The way you have worded the above is a bit confuddling !!!
EAGA give grants out for various insulation measures and now CH - these are given out to *everyone* who qualifies by being on certain types of benefit - it doesn't matter who owns the house, be it privately owned, council or private landlord.
Wrong Phillip,the name goes on the register for grants of this ilk with details of that persons disability facts and they do ask for a previous address.
Is that not the scheme where you need to be at least aged 60. It was run in Scotland by EAGA but now BG run it . It's a Scottish Exective C/Heating Programme up here . CH has been included as well as insulation for a number of years.
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