MORE people will be able to make their homes warm and water-tight through a new £10 million fund.
The pilot scheme, which covers Argyll and Bute, will provide equity loans of up to £40,000 to home owners on low incomes to help them make essential repairs to leaking roofs and building structures. This work is often necessary before energy efficiency measures such as solid-wall insulation can be installed.
The funding can be used either as a single equity loan or with other existing government grants to fund more expensive measures like solid wall insulation or a package of energy efficiency works.