I see ads popping up on Facebook and in banner adverts for heavily subsidised insulation.
I had a look at one such web site, it is hard to get any information without first signing up. They state that all one needs to supply is Justificatif Domicile, and a tax bill to prove income.
We have a few bits of insukation haphazardly installed by the previous owners. I would like to improve on that for those cold winter nights. I could install insulation myself, but the chance of being able to get it installed for a lot less does appeal.
We have just received our first tax summary, so now have French taxidnetifiers.We are not yet registered on Amelie, I am taking an early pension from august so will have proof if income to register then. I mention this in case there are additional checks, hence my question :
Does anyone have any experience with this?
Someone will chime in… but, if memory serves me… the property must be your main residence, your income must be below a certain level… and the work has to be done by a certain companyies)…
If your situation ticks all the correct boxes, you may well get it for 1 €… if not, they will tell you how much you will have to pay… and there is (?) a sliding scale of charges depending on income etc…
@Stella, yes I do seem to fit the requirements as stated. My reason for questioning stems from all those years in th zUK of receiving double-glazing cold calls.
“If you could have free double-glazed windows , how many would you want? 3, 5 or 7 …?” is how most would start. Having a 15thC grade 2 listed building would not deter them.
Is there a scheme in France that subsidises insulation so heavily, and has anyone here benefited from it? Or, is it just a means of harvesting names, numbers and email addresses for selling on?
Hi Martin… Aha… this is coming from a phone call ???
Ask at your Mairie, they will know what is on offer…may even have the pamphlets. I would be very wary of phone-call appointments… been there, done that and sent them packing with the proverbial flea…
Insulation is a national project at the moment. … but some unscrupulous folk will always jump on that sort of bandwagon… (not all phone-callers are baddies, but the English are easy targets and I have spent much time extricating folk from unsuitable agreements…) 
I have just one more thought…
the 1 € might relate to the blow-in stuff… blowing insulation in a sealed loft space. I think this may have been discussed elsewhere on the Forum.
I do know a french couple who have benefited. Their loft was completely sealed and thus could benefit from the “offer” … but they saw the Advert/Pamphlet and made their own application.
I’ve just run an “eligibility test” and got this result…
"Non sommes navrés, au vu des informations transmises, vous n’êtes pas éligible à l’offre d’isolation à 1€ pour les raisons suivantes :
Votre département ne fait pas partie de la zone climatique H1 : votre département n'est donc pas éligible "
Which rather gives the lie to those folk who keep cold-calling me… 
If you use one of the links… and ARE eligible, they will contact you… that is rather different to cold-calling… 
Hmm, if it is true that they only use blown glass fibre I would not fancy that. I don’t care about the mice, our cats are quite happy dealing with them 
It seems one member turned it down because of the requirement to seal off the attic, and another heard if a couple in a village nearby.
There are aspects of blown glass fibre that do raise health concerns to me. That u s surprising consu dering the costs and environmental brownie points of using recycled cellulose.
Think I will take a stroll down to the mairie and ask. If that were the only choice I would rather dig into our savings for a better product and do it myself…