Balham sits at the western edge of our South London patch and is covered at the standard fixed price. Accredited assessment, certificate lodged on the government register usually within 48 hours, and a real person on the phone to arrange a time.
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Balham is later than the Victorian stock further north — largely Edwardian terrace, wider fronted and better proportioned, laid out in long uniform streets. A very large share has been split into upper and lower maisonettes, and almost as large a share has been extended, either into the roof or across the side return, or both.
D is typical for a maisonette or an unimproved house. C is very achievable where the boiler is modern and the loft, if it is still a loft, is properly insulated.
The things worth knowing before an assessor turns up at a Balham address.
A conversion is assessed as a flat, not as half a house, and the assessor has to establish exactly which floors, ceilings and party walls lose heat and which sit against another heated home. Get that wrong and the rating comes out materially off. In a street where almost every house is split this way, it is the single most common source of an incorrect Balham certificate.
The glazed kitchen extension is close to universal here. It enlarges the heated floor area and usually adds a substantial run of glazing and rooflights. Modern building regulations glazing performs well, so this is not automatically bad for the rating — but it does need measuring properly rather than estimating, which is part of why the visit takes the time it does.
With so many roofs converted into bedrooms, there is frequently no insulation left to inspect. Original building control paperwork or the conversion drawings let the assessor record what is genuinely there instead of falling back on a pessimistic default.
The minimum rating a landlord must hold rises from E to C — 2028 for new tenancies, October 2030 for the rest. What that means depends heavily on what you own, and Balham is a specific case.
The maisonette market here is heavily let, and upper and lower flats in the same building routinely land differently — the upper carries the roof, the lower carries the ground floor. Do not assume one certificate tells you about the other.
Full timeline, the £10,000 spending cap, and what is happening to the A–G rating itself: the rules, set out plainly — or the complete landlord guide: MEES and the EPC rules every UK landlord needs to know.
Less than people fear. Modern extension glazing has to meet current building regulations, so it usually performs considerably better than the original windows in the rest of the house. What matters is that its area and specification are recorded properly — which is why the assessor measures every window individually rather than sampling a typical one.
£69 for a home with up to three bedrooms, and £89 for four or five. That is the whole price — no call-out fee, no lodgement fee, nothing added afterwards.
Balham is inside our regular patch, so we can usually offer a slot within a few days, including evenings and Saturday mornings. We ring you the same working day you book to fix the exact time.
From £69, lodged within 48 hours of the visit. One free reschedule any time before we survey.
