Consumers face months-long delays to installing air conditioning in their homes despite being able to access £2,500 grants to help pay for it, The i Paper can reveal.
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS), which offers Government grants for green energy upgrades to homes, was expanded to include air-to-air heat pumps that can cool your home from 28 April.
But installers – who apply for the grants on behalf of homeowners before passing on a cost reduction – are still awaiting accreditation to be able to fit the heat pumps, warning this means the scheme may be unavailable to customers until late summer.
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It could take “a few months, at least” to get this accreditation and train up the thousands of installers needed to meet demand for the scheme, the National Federation of Builders (NFB) has warned.
