Heat pumps · Insulation · FireSmart · Radon
BC home retrofit rebates, mapped.
Heat pump rebates up to $16,000. Insulation stacks up to $14,500. FireSmart, radon, and the rest of the BC retrofit landscape too. We read the program manuals, do the stacking math, and match you with a vetted local installer. Free.
Four upgrades. Each with its own rebate landscape, contractor bench, and stacking trap.
We cover the four BC home-upgrade decisions where the rebate math is real and the paperwork is genuinely confusing. Pick your front.
BC rebates are generous.
The process isn’t.
Heat pump or insulation, FireSmart or radon — the same four traps catch first-timers. Codes that expire, programs that don’t stack the way you think, and one missing field that voids the rebate.
Six months from your eligibility code, twelve to finish.
Energy Savings Program codes expire in six months. Project completion has to land within twelve. Miss either window and the rebate is gone — no extensions, no appeals.
Two programs, three income tiers, one wrong answer.
ESP and HRR don’t stack on the same upgrade. The right choice depends on your heating source, household income, and property value. Most homeowners pick blind — and most pick wrong.
One missing field on the invoice voids the whole rebate.
Notices of Assessment, F280 reports, validated invoices with specific fields, portal submissions across separate logins. The contractor doesn’t catch it. The portal doesn’t flag it. You find out six weeks later when the rebate is denied.
How it works. Three steps.
Check your rebate
The free calculator runs the program rules against your home and income, then shows you the exact stacking math. No email gate on the quick version — results in two minutes.
Get matched with a vetted Kootenay installer
We forward your details only to contractors we’ve vetted for HPCN status, F280 sizing competence, and rebate paperwork track-record. You pick from the matches; you owe us nothing.
Get the upgrade done
Your installer handles the rebate paperwork the way they always have. The rebate comes off your invoice. Whether it’s a heat pump install, an attic blow, a FireSmart hardening, or a radon mitigation fan — you do it once, you do it right.
The local bonus
$5k
HomeSave Central Kootenays
The bonus that stacks across heat pumps, insulation & envelope work.
Performance-based rebates of up to $5,000 stack on top of provincial programs — for heat pumps, insulation, windows, and combinations. Most homeowners we talk to haven’t heard of it. The registration sequence matters, and the pre-retrofit energy-baseline window is easy to miss.
If you’ve spent an evening on this
BC has more than a dozen home-retrofit rebates across provincial, utility, regional, and municipal programs. They stack in some combinations and cancel out in others. Deadlines collide. Portals don’t talk to each other. Most homeowners get contradictory answers from FortisBC, BC Hydro, and the first installer they call — and give up. That’s the gap we live in. We read every program manual, do the stacking math for your specific home, and route you to a Kootenay specialist whose credentials we’ve checked. You don’t pay us. The contractor does.
Nelson · Castlegar · Trail · Slocan · Kaslo
How we earn your trust before we earn anything else.
What we know
Every clause of every rebate program, read end to end.
ESP, HRR, HomeSave Central Kootenays, FortisBC, BC Hydro, Nelson Hydro, the federal Greener Homes legacy, the Bill 4 direct-sales restriction effective August 2026. We update the calculator the day a program changes.
What we publish
44 plain-English guides across all four verticals.
Every BC heat pump rebate acronym, decoded · Attic insulation options for Nelson homes · FireSmart and your home-insurance rate · Testing your Kootenay home for radon. Written for homeowners, not contractors.
Who we send leads to
Specialists vetted per vertical, credentials current.
HPCN-registered HVAC and insulation contractors. FireSmart-trained landscapers, siders, and roofers. C-NRPP-certified radon professionals. We vet for credential currency and clean rebate-paperwork history — the Moore & Russell collapse cost ~200 BC homeowners their rebate, and we screen for that exact failure mode.
What we don’t do
Door-knock, charge homeowners, lock you to one installer.
You owe us nothing. The referral fee comes from the contractor only when you sign with them. You can ignore our match and pick someone else — we don’t lock leads. No pop-ups, no urgency timers, no “trusted by 10,000+ homeowners” stat strips.