Low rating for recent build....

engrish?

Hey,

Having a bad day here and being a little paranoid but I keep going over my figures but I am getting an E1 for a top floor apartment c.2004 which has;

living space nearly 50% of overall, electric heaters, loads of windows, only 2 vents throughout (most vents are tiny slits in windows), no thermostat on cylinder, elec emmersion as hot water system...

Surely I am messing up somewhere, can a relatively new build get such a bad rating?

d'Oracle

Electric Heating is bad, space or water, is bad.

Lots of windows, unless they are low energy windows, is bad because they usually have high u-values and are heatloss areas.

Top floor apartments are usually worse than mid floor as they have large amounts of heatloss area.

Poor heating controls are bad.

Its a bad apartment mate.

sydthebeat

d'Oracle wrote: »

Electric Heating is bad, space or water, is bad.

Lots of windows, unless they are low energy windows, is bad because they usually have high u-values and are heatloss areas.

Top floor apartments are usually worse than mid floor as they have large amounts of heatloss area.

Poor heating controls are bad.

Its a bad apartment mate.

100% agreed.... im actually surprised its up to the E1 mark with such dependency on electricity.

sinnerboy

here

http://www.sei.ie/Your_Building/BER/BER_Assessors/February_Status_report.pdf


( PS - wow . Big jump in no. of certified and registered assessors vs Jan figs )


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engrish?

sydthebeat wrote: »

100% agreed.... im actually surprised its up to the E1 mark with such dependency on electricity.

Thanks guys, think I'm going to call this one a day and come back tomorrow....


Can someone tell me what a "celect type control" is?

No6

sinnerboy wrote: »

here

http://www.sei.ie/Your_Building/BER/BER_Assessors/February_Status_report.pdf


( PS - wow . Big jump in no. of certified and registered assessors vs Jan figs )


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And if you do some sums an average of 6.4 assessments published per assessor @ an average of 250 each (say) thats an average total income per assessor of 1600 so far in this scheme. Frightening isn't it!!!:eek:

sinnerboy

We should do as the taximen do - block O Connel St :rolleyes:

No6

I don't know I can't afford the taxi fare to get there!!!!:D

topcatcbr

:rolleyes:

sinnerboy wrote: »

We should do as the taximen do

Fair point as there is a fair amount of them doing what we do (BER Certs)

sinnerboy

topcatcbr wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Fair point as there is a fair amount of them doing what we do (BER Certs)

:D:D