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energy rating qualification for assessing?

  • 18-01-2009 9:44pm
    #1
    boomboombazza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭


    anyone know whats involved in becoming qualified to assess the energy rating of housing. there is new regulations and requirements for houses and energy rating.
    cheers


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  • #2
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    1000's of people have gone and gotten qulaified for this already. I have a friend who is a letting agent in rental properties and everyday they get 10 calls/letters/emails/walk ins from people offering their servies in this area.

    It'll be over served soon, if not already.


  • #3
    boomboombazza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 153 ✭✭boomboombazza


    niceirishfella wrote: »
    1000's of people have gone and gotten qulaified for this already. I have a friend who is a letting agent in rental properties and everyday they get 10 calls/letters/emails/walk ins from people offering their servies in this area.

    It'll be over served soon, if not already.

    i had a feeling i missed the boat:o could be good if the economy recovers but as you say probably oversaturated suppy in a market with no demand


  • #4
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    Boom,
    it might be worth having tho' - if its reasonably cheap to get qualified in which i don't know.


  • #5
    Bitsie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Bitsie


    It costs about €2,000 to get qualified!


  • #6
    Typewriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    + €950 every year to register with SEI.


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  • #7
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    feck, 2k and then €950pa............ripp off Ireland lives on in the recession!


  • #8
    Typewriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭Typewriter


    It also costs €25 + VAT to SEI to process it. Apparently there going for as little as €170 for a BER in Dublin right now.

    You'd be lucky to get one BER a week in current climate.

    Less than €150 a week with out travel expenses? Not worth it, every collage grad and the former employed will be looking into this course.


  • #9
    Jaysoose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,212 ✭✭✭Jaysoose


    niceirishfella wrote: »
    feck, 2k and then €950pa............ripp off Ireland lives on in the recession!

    The whole thing is a rip off anyway, basically a load of people going in to your house and looking at double glazing and tut-tutting for an hour or so. Do not actually improve the energy rating of the house but still charge 300+ for the privilege of them telling you that you need to spend more money.

    Mate had it done recently, funnily enough it costs less than a hundred pounds for this service in england but then whats to be expected in irland and when this is a goverment led thing. How do you spell QUANGO?


  • #10
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'll be very suprised if I make back the money I put into getting qualified & registered - around €3K. That's what I spent my redundancy on... when I investigated it first, it seemed like a great idea - anyone doing the course is supposed to have a minimum Level 6 in construction studies & relevant work experience, but the guys running the courses are letting anyone & EVERYONE do it.

    I've advertised in local papers, in local shops & fliered hundreds of houses and not a dickey bird out of it. There are just too many assessors out there & no-one seems to be in any rush to get BER certs.. the same thing happened in the UK - they brought in the BER requirement, but people just ignored it & it has fallen mostly by the wayside there as it was never properly enforced.


  • #11
    ThermalBER GUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭ThermalBER GUY


    :oIm doing them for 189 euro and cant get a bite either! It is over saturated and I think it will be a couple of years before the ranks thin out. 1500 for the course 1210 sei reg 600 for insurance! 3400 before you make a dime!
    People will need them but in the near term i.e. recession Im back to the dole for now.


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  • #12
    niceirishfella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    ThermalBER GUY wrote: »
    :oIm doing them for 189 euro and cant get a bite either! It is over saturated and I think it will be a couple of years before the ranks thin out. 1500 for the course 1210 sei reg 600 for insurance! 3400 before you make a dime!
    People will need them but in the near term i.e. recession Im back to the dole for now.


    sorry to hear your on the rock and roll Thermal.
    Still, the 3.4k you invested may be of use to you in the future when things pick up.:)
    Its a long term investment me thinks.


  • #13
    ThermalBER GUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭ThermalBER GUY


    Yeah it is a long term investment, its just like anything worthwhile, you have to wait until your time comes and take advantage of it. I am also doing thermal images of houses and I am an electrician and I have been insulating attics and can do a good bit of carpentry so I wont starve but it would be nice to see the end of this recession sooner rather than later.
    The next year will be interesting. Being from America Ive seen it all so this is just a temporary phase.


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