A Shade Greener Biomass boiler 7.5 year agreement - unfair, unclear, costly

[Rodger Moore]

Hello,

 

 

Please could someone help in advising/supporting my wife and I in the removal of an A Shade Greener Biomass boiler that was installed by them for the previous owners of our property in 2014?

 

We took over the agreement in 2018 in order to prevent the purchase of the house falling through, with and end date of April 2022 or 7 years and 6 months after the inception. Now we are faced with them claiming the boiler is a "shared ownership" so we have to purchase their half of the boiler for £2795 ,or now pay them a£78 per month retainer for maintenance charges. I challenged them to say I would like them to purchase my half of the boiler and remove to which they stated they would not do this, and in fact there would be a charge to me for the removal!

 

This company has had in excess of £40k worth of RHI payments throughout this period, to challenge for more is scandalous.  I feel that there were many installations to the older generation who are now being taken for a ride with all these subsequent charges, something has to be done. I would really appreciate your support. 

 

We would just like them gone and no further ties with this shady company.

 

Thanks in advance 

[honeybee13]

Hello, welcome to CAG. We've come across these people before and have quite a few threads about them.

 

Do you have a copy of the contract? If so, perhaps you could post it up, minus any details that could identify you.

 

Best, HB

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[Manxman in exile]

6 hours ago, Rodger Moore said:

... We took over the agreement in 2018 in order to prevent the purchase of the house falling through, with and end date of April 2022 or 7 years and 6 months after the inception. Now we are faced with them claiming the boiler is a "shared ownership" so we have to purchase their half of the boiler for £2795 ,or now pay them a£78 per month retainer for maintenance charges. I challenged them to say I would like them to purchase my half of the boiler and remove to which they stated they would not do this, and in fact there would be a charge to me for the removal!...

 

Surely your solicitor (who did your conveyancing on the purchase of the property) drew your attention to this at the time?

 

Even if they were of the opinion that 

[Rodger Moore]

Hi, yes we had all checked by Conveyancing no mention of any exit fees or costs involved,  I will block out contacts and load up the contracts 

[Manxman in exile]

OK.  Will be interesting to see the contracts* then.  I note that A Shade Greener are known to the forum...

 

*I don't see how you can acquire a contractual obligation through a property purchase without your solicitor becoming aware of it and telling you.  Unless your vendors were telling porkies...

 

 

 

[Rodger Moore]

We were fully aware of the contract to a degree. But nowhere does it mention anything about costs to exit at the end of the period. Nothing is detailed about this.