Passing Your Scheme Audit: Evidence, Floor Plans, Photos and Deadlines
Every assessor is audited, and since 1 October 2026 one minimum evidence list applies across every scheme. This 45-minute video session explains how audits are chosen and failed, the evidence every domestic EPC now needs, how to make floor plans and photos that stand up on their own, and how to get it all to your scheme on time.
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Passing Your Scheme Audit: Evidence, Floor Plans, Photos and Deadlines
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What you’ll learn
- Explain how audits are chosen, and what the auditor is checking
- Describe how a fail is counted, and what happens after one
- List the minimum evidence a domestic EPC now needs
- Produce a clear floor plan and photos that stand up on their own
- Send your evidence in on time, every time
About this course
Every domestic energy assessor is audited, and since 1 October 2026 one list of minimum evidence applies across every accreditation scheme. Your scheme will also ask you to declare, when you lodge, that you hold that evidence.
This session explains how audits are chosen, what the auditor checks and how a fail is counted. It then works through the minimum evidence requirements item by item: what a clear floor plan must show, the photos you need from outside to the loft, when documents can stand in for a photo, and what your site notes must record.
It ends with the audit clock: how long you have to send your evidence, what happens if it’s late, how to put a failed EPC right, and how to appeal. Different schemes have different rules and processes on top of the shared ones, so always check with your own scheme. The session names no scheme.
What’s in the session
- 0:00 Introduction: where the audit rules come from, and what changed in autumn 2026
- 2:45 How audits work: the numbers, random, new entrant, smart, complaint and follow-on audits, and what triggers them
- 8:24 Passing and failing: how the error is counted, the three ways to fail, and evidence that won’t stand up
- 12:57 The minimum evidence: the declaration, and every photo the list asks for, from elevations to meters
- 21:09 Clear floor plans: what the plan must show, a worked example, and the problems that come up again and again
- 25:34 Photos that stand up on their own: phone settings, readable photos, a photo route and file handling
- 30:00 Documents and site notes: when a document counts, and notes that help an auditor
- 33:00 Sending it in on time: the audit clock, extensions, what happens if it’s late, and a good evidence pack
- 37:33 After the audit: feedback, putting a fail right, escalation, appeals, a checklist, reflection and recap
Captions are available in the player. The session reflects the position at 12 November 2026; check easob.co.uk and your accreditation scheme for changes. General information only, not advice.
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