A pensioner says she feels 'frustrated and deflated' after scaffolding has been left around her home for weeks.
Judith Chamberlain from Nottinghamshire was having insulation work done on her home, but the project was suddenly abandoned.
The scaffolding, which was put up around her home at the start of October, still remains there more than a month later.
Ms Chamberlain was also left with building materials in her garden after E.ON pulled the plug on the work.
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Speaking to Nottinghamshire Live, Judith said: "I'm back to square one, basically.
"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 had applied for a Green Homes Grant, a scheme funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which meant she was getting an external wall insulation for free.
Alterations had already been made to the external pipework but building materials were left in her gardens after the job was deserted.
"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 applied for the 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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