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When does a refit pay?
One English estate, 305 homes, compiled from the public record and priced one at a time. At today's prices, five pay back a whole home retrofit inside fifteen years. Move the gas price and the queue forms, one home at a time. The estate's average, read as a single row, never joins it.
With gas at today’s price, homes that pay back inside fifteen years:
5 of 305
300 still say no at this price
One price moves; every home’s own costs and savings hold still.
Every step is a single home changing its answer. There is no moment the estate becomes worth doing; there is a queue, and the price sets your position in it.
273
homes still say no with gas up 120%
102
of those are on community heating, where the question was never a heat pump in each home
The story behind this view
This estate is the subject of our article on what an average can and cannot tell you about a retrofit business case, including why this one's opportunity was mostly taken years ago, and what that means for the homes that remain.
Read: The Average Crosses OnceYour stock has its own queue
This estate was compiled from records that are already public, and the same can be done for any place in England. Most business cases carry a threshold somewhere. How many of your homes actually cross there, and how many crossed years ago without the summary row noticing? Nothing is needed from you to start.
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