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Make your home energy efficient with a green mortgage
Our homes account for 30% of the country’s total energy use. We are keen to play our part in reducing home energy consumption by offering cost-friendly funding solutions to existing borrowers seeking to improve their EPC rating.
If you’re planning to renovate your property or enhance your home’s energy efficiency, our green mortgages may be able to support you.
We offer Green Mortgage products to existing borrowers pledging to use at least 50% of the additional funds for energy efficiency improvements. If you have plans for your property, you may be eligible for a Green Mortgage – check the list of acceptable home improvements further down this page.
Expert guidance on your green retrofitting project
The Society has partnered with green retrofit specialist Retrogreen to help residential and investment property owners understand their property’s energy efficiency and consider the steps they might take to improve it, reduce energy consumption, and improve the property’s EPC rating.
Integral to the service is the ease with which people can gain an understanding of their property’s current energy efficiency and create a plan for improving it.
Supported financially by Hinckley & Rugby, projects can be managed end to end by Retrogreen.
What energy efficiency home improvements qualify?
| Energy-efficiency measures | Heating measures | Renewable energy generation | Property resilience measures |
| Insulation to existing envelope components, such as external walls, roofs, lofts, basements, and ground floors (including measures to ensure airtightness and reduce the effects of thermal bridges) | Installation and replacement of heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and domestic hot water systems equipment related to district heating | Solar hot water | BS 851188 standard products to enhance resistance to flooding, such as flood-doors and windows, demountable barriers |
| Energy-efficient external doors | Ground source heat pumps | Solar photovoltaic | Resilient insulation |
| Loft insulation | Micro combined heat and power (Micro-CHP) | Rainfall capture | Enhanced resilience to flooding, such as resilient wall and floor finishes |
| Low-energy lights | Replacement of old pumps with efficient circulating pumps | Enhanced resistance to heatwaves such as external shutters and external insulation | |
| Tank and pipe insulation | Heating controls | ||
| Cavity wall insulation | Air source heat pumps | ||
| Internal wall insulation | |||
| Double glazing | |||
| Insulated render | |||
| External wall insulation | |||
| Draught proofing |
What is the first step?
The first step is to register for the Retrogreen app below.
By adding details of your property, it will create a digital replica of your property. This will help you to see how different options could improve its energy efficiency.
Any questions? Please get in touch
Please call us on 01455 894084 and speak to a member of our team.
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