A pensioner has spoken of her frustration after insulation work on her home was abandoned - leaving her with scaffolding around her home for more than a month.
Judith Chamberlain, of Beeston, was also left with building materials in her garden after E.ON pulled the plug on the work, despite receiving a Government grant for the improvements.
She said "the initial shock had passed" but she remained "frustrated and deflated" by the situation.
"I'm back to square one, basically," she said.
"I felt pretty deflated, but I suppose this is life. It's been a bit of a journey really. It'll be a relief to get the scaffolding down and then I'll be able to resurrect my garden."
Ms Chamberlain said scaffolding was put up around her home in early October, with alterations made to made to the external pipework and building materials put in her front and back gardens.
"By the end of the month I was told that the project had ended," she continued.
"God knows how much Government money has been wasted in the process."
Ms Chamberlain had successfully applied for a Green Homes Grant, a scheme funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which meant she should have been given external wall insulation for her home entirely for free.
The grants have been handed out and work carried out in phases. Ms Chamberlain applied for a grant in March, but E.ON said they would be unable to finish the work before a deadline at the end of October.
The company said this was due to the fact they were trying to complete work for as many as homes as possible in the window after applications closed on March 31.
The utilities company said they had apologised to Ms Chamberlain and would remove the building materials and fix the pipework "as a matter of urgency".
A spokesperson said: "Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to complete the external wall insulation at this property under the Government-led Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery scheme before this phase of it closed.
"We have made the council’s local co-ordinator for this work across Nottinghamshire aware of this case so the insulation can be completed within a future phase of the scheme.”
Ms Chamberlain said that she believed she was not the only homeowner to fall foul of the timeout.
E.ON said they have provided 159 energy efficiency measures to 143 Nottinghamshire households at a government-funded cost of £695,000
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