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What the site does, what its numbers mean, and what they do not mean.

What this site is

HomeGrade reads public registers and presents what they say about a home, together with figures we compute from them. It is information, not advice, and not a survey.

What the figures mean

Grades and scores are the register's own. Costs are the register's indicative ranges, which are national figures rather than quotes. Points per measure are estimated from the whole register and rescaled to each home's own certificate delta, so the total is the register's figure and the split between measures is a model. Value estimates are index-adjusted from the last sale and are not valuations.

Grants

Grant amounts and eligibility come from our registry, which records the date each scheme was last verified against its own source. Schemes change and close. Always confirm with the scheme before committing money.

Quotes

We pass a quote request to certified installers. Any contract is between you and the installer; we are not a party to it, and nothing is booked until you accept a quote.

Accuracy

Registers contain errors, and we correct what we can detect — impossible scores, impossible floor areas, potentials worse than the present state. Where a figure cannot be trusted we show nothing rather than a number. If something about your home looks wrong, the certificate itself is the record to correct.

Data licences

Energy data from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register © Crown copyright. Price paid data © HM Land Registry, released under the Open Government Licence v3. Postcode data © ONS. We use this data for inbound information only, never for unsolicited marketing.

See also our privacy notice.