If you were pointed to this web address, you were told it is the home of the “EBR-01” standard. Until 11 September 2026, nobody had registered it.
This site is not the “EBR-01 Code of Conduct Council”. It is not
affiliated with, endorsed by, connected to, or operated by whoever publishes
sprayfoamstandards.co.uk. It issues no certificates, approves no contractors and
maintains no register.
It is an information page about a claim being made to UK homeowners. Everything below is a check anyone can repeat, with the date it was carried out.
Why this page exists
A website at sprayfoamstandards.co.uk promotes a standard it calls EBR-01 for the
removal of spray foam insulation. It publishes a formal-looking “Notice of
Publication” stamped DOC-EBR01-NOTICE-2024-001 · ebr-01.co.uk. Its
structured data gives the issuing body’s web address as www.ebr-01.co.uk
and its contact as info@ebr-01.co.uk. Its own FAQ tells readers: “Use the
EBR-01 Contractor Directory at ebr-01.co.uk”.
That domain had never been registered. It returned no result from the Nominet register and did not resolve in the domain name system. A homeowner following those instructions reached nothing at all.
We registered it on 11 September 2026, so that anyone sent here finds the checks below rather than an error page.
The dates
Domain registration dates are public and free to check on the Nominet register. Here is that website’s own timeline, against its own claims.
“Effective from” date of the EBR-01 standard
Stated on its “Notice of Publication”, status “Active & Enforced”
Dates on its featured “verified reviews”
Advertised as “888+ verified reviews”, “100% verified and moderated”
sprayfoamstandards.co.uk was registered
Nominet public register, checked 11 September 2026
ebr-01.co.uk was registered — by us
Until this date the address cited as the standard’s home did not exist
We have no explanation for that, and we would publish one if we were given it.
What we checked
The left side quotes sprayfoamstandards.co.uk as published on
11 September 2026. The right is what we found when we checked it. Dated copies of
every page have been kept.
It is issued by the “EBR-01 Code of Conduct Council”
We searched the Companies House register for “EBR-01”. It returned no results. We could find no registered company, charity or other body of that name.
“Registered in England & Wales”
The site publishes no company name, no registration number, no registered office and no trading address. The only contact given is an email address.
Its notices and page code give the issuing body’s address as ebr-01.co.uk
That domain was unregistered until 11 September 2026, when we registered it. For as long as the standard was said to have been in force, the address it cited led nowhere.
“Maintained by an independent council with no affiliation to any single removal contractor or commercial interest”
The same website names one company as its “Principal Trusted Contractor”, “recommended for every homeowner”, links to it throughout with a phone number, and carries a permanent footer link to it. Its own structured data gives the standards body the alternate name of that contractor’s trading website.
A directory of independently verified contractors
Five entries, one a duplicate — four distinct names. One of the others presents itself as an independent advisory service and publishes, as its own contact address, an email at that same recommended contractor’s domain.
“As seen on / featured in” BBC News and Watchdog
The BBC has covered spray foam and mortgages — that is real and well documented. We could find no BBC item that mentions EBR-01. Separately, Watchdog ceased to be a standalone BBC programme in October 2019.
“As featured in” Which?, This is Money, The Guardian, Daily Mail and Mortgage Strategy
Those publications have covered spray foam and mortgages. We could find no article in any of them mentioning EBR-01.
“Recognised by UK mortgage lenders”, shown with seven high street bank logos
We could find no lender referencing EBR-01 in its published criteria. Lenders set their own requirements and rely on the surveyor’s evidence. A bank’s logo on someone else’s website is not a statement by that bank.
“RICS Surveyor Compatible” and “PCA Framework”
We could find no mention of EBR-01 in RICS or Property Care Association guidance.
“Download the EBR-01 standard”
We followed it. No standard is published — no numbered clauses, no technical requirements, no test methods, no competence requirements, no revision history and no named committee.
“An official UK industry standard”, “Active & Enforced”
The footer of the same site: “Not a statutory body. EBR-01 is a voluntary industry code.” Its disclaimer adds that it “does not guarantee the performance of any contractor listed in the directory”.
What we are not saying. Spray foam removal matters, and so does the paperwork. Lenders and surveyors really do refuse properties over spray foam, and a badly documented removal really can leave you stuck. The point of this page is narrower: a certificate is worth exactly what the organisation behind it is worth, and you are entitled to find out who that is before you spend thousands of pounds.
Follow the route
This is the part worth following carefully, because every step of it is published by that website itself. We make no claim about who owns or operates it — it does not say, and we do not know. What can be checked is where it directs you.
You have a problemRemoval must be done to the EBR-01 standard, and non-compliant work leaves a property unmortgageable.
The body is independentThe standard is “maintained by an independent council with no affiliation to any single removal contractor or commercial interest”.
One company is recommendedRevive Maintenance Ltd is named the “Principal Trusted Contractor”, “recommended for every homeowner requiring mortgage-compliant remediation”, with website and phone repeated throughout and a permanent footer link.
Their own code links the twoIn the page’s structured data, the organisation named “EBR-01 Code of Conduct” carries the alternateName of “SprayFoamRemovalHelp” — the trading website of that same recommended contractor.
So does the directoryFive entries, one a duplicate. Another presents itself as an independent advisory service — and publishes an email at that same contractor’s domain as its contact address.
Your details are collectedThe homepage and contact page are lead capture forms. Submit one and, in its own words, an “EBR-01 advisor will match you with a certified contractor”.
And the competition is listedAlongside all of it, a register naming other spray foam removal businesses under a heading calling them a network, telling readers never to transfer deposits to them or engage their services.
Those seven points are not our characterisation. Each one can be read on that website today, or in the copies we have kept.
Our view — offered as opinion, not as fact
On the basis of those published facts, we do not consider EBR-01 to be an independent standard. A body that describes itself as having no affiliation to any single contractor, while recommending one company throughout, sharing an alternate name with that company’s website in its own code, listing a supposedly independent service that uses that company’s email address, collecting homeowner enquiries, and publishing a list warning the public away from that company’s competitors, is not, in our opinion, independent of that company.
We also think the effect on a homeowner is straightforward: you are told your home fails a standard, told the standard is nationally recognised, told which companies not to use, and pointed to one that is. Whatever the intention behind it, that is how the arrangement works in practice.
We are one of the businesses named on that register. No assessment of our business was carried out and nobody contacted us before or since. We consider the statements published about our businesses there to be false and defamatory, and they are being dealt with separately. That is our interest in this page, stated plainly so you can weigh everything on it accordingly.
Do not take our word for it either
A free WHOIS lookup returns the date any domain was created. Run it on any website telling you what standard your home must meet. A standard said to predate its own website by two and a half years, carrying reviews written before that website existed, deserves an explanation.
If you are told that named banks require a particular certificate, ring yours and ask. Whatever your lender says is worth more than any logo on any website — including this one.
The real picture
Spray foam removal is not a licensed trade. There is no register a contractor must be on, and no single certificate that lenders accept. What genuinely bears on your property:
Because none of that amounts to one binding standard, anyone can write a document, call it a standard, and issue certificates against it. That is not a hypothetical, which is why the checks below are worth running on anybody — including on us.
Take this with you
Use it on anyone. Use it on us.
If you want help
We run the two services below. They are ours. The removal companies pay us for an introduction and the homeowner pays nothing. We are telling you that first, because it is the question you should ask of anyone who recommends a tradesperson to you — including the website that sent you here, which does not answer it.
We are not a standards body either, and neither is anyone else in this industry. We issue no certificates and we approve nothing in any official sense. What we do is narrower and duller than a certificate, and it is the part that actually protects you: before we pass your enquiry to a company, we check things you could check yourself, and we do not pass it on if they do not hold up.
None of that is a standard, and we would not dress it up as one. It is due diligence, carried out in advance so you are not doing it alone while trying to save a house sale. You are welcome to run every one of those checks yourself — the first three are free and public, and we would rather you did.
You can also use neither of our services and simply work through the checklist above with any contractor you like. That is a perfectly good outcome, and it is the reason the checklist is on this page at all.