Attic insulation grant??

chris85

Hi All,

I am considering doing a bit of research for a college project on the area of insulation and governement strategies on it. Before i do anything i am doing a bit of a high level look at it.

Is there grants available for the insulation of attics at present or previously?

Anything else you feel good to ask about this area let me know.

Chris.

jeckle

chris85 wrote: »

Hi All,

I am considering doing a bit of research...

You should consider Google as a research tool - all the information & more right at your fingertips.

chris85

jeckle wrote: »

You should consider Google as a research tool - all the information & more right at your fingertips.

I had used that as first tool but showed nothing of substance so thought a nice friendly public forum that i contribute a lot to may be able to be of some assistance?!?

maringo

Hi Chris see http://www.seai.ie/Grants/ :):)

DoneDL

Also look at grants in EU countries and see if they differ and why.

chris85

maringo wrote: »

Hi Chris see http://www.seai.ie/Grants/ :):)

Hi Maringo thankf you for that info. Very much appreciated. Good start to reading.

chris85

DoneDL wrote: »

Also look at grants in EU countries and see if they differ and why.

I will be looking at that. I havent decided on if i will go ahead and do it but I may so some case study of the Australian scheme that started a few years ago offering higher grants towards insulation aimed and reducing energy costs, which saves them having to produce this power, as well as giving a boost to the construction/trade industry for the installation of the insulation. Was fairly successful there.

Would then look at this from the Irish economical perspective.

But it all comes down to a cost analysis i guess.

Any input from anyone is taken with great appreciation.

MicktheMan

chris85 wrote: »

Was fairly successful there.

You sure?

I have a relative living in Oz and if I remember correctly it was stopped quickly when there was some health and safety issues. Can remember the exact detail now but I bleieve lives were lost!

chris85

MicktheMan wrote: »

You sure?

I have a relative living in Oz and if I remember correctly it was stopped quickly when there was some health and safety issues. Can remember the exact detail now but I bleieve lives were lost!

I was living there for about 8 months and i can remember being good then but looked there and issue with cowboys doing insulation and getting electrocuted due to being cowboys.

This could be looked at with regulating installers like SEI does. Something to build on maybe.

MicktheMan

chris85 wrote: »

I was living there for about 8 months and i can remember being good then but looked there and issue with cowboys doing insulation and getting electrocuted due to being cowboys.

This could be looked at with regulating installers like SEI does. Something to build on maybe.

Yeah thats something similar to what I heard.

The problem, imho, with grants is (at least) twofold:
1. It attracts all sorts of so-called experts, aka cowboys. This is true in Ireland as much as anywhere else even with SEAI regulation.
2. "Grants make people stupid". I first heard this being said in Germany from a representative of the PHI. At first when I heard it I wondered but have since come to realise how true it is. The average consumer thinks that because there is a grant for a measure then it must be good and the (SEAI) registered contractor must be competent. Their normal/natural scepticism is reduced as a result and often they are sold something which is either unsuitable, inappropriate and installed badly by a slick talking salesman / cowboy just because there is a govt grant available.

paddy147

jeckle wrote: »

You should consider Google as a research tool - all the information & more right at your fingertips.

You really are helpfull,arent you.:rolleyes:

chris85

MicktheMan wrote: »

chris85 wrote: »

I was living there for about 8 months and i can remember being good then but looked there and issue with cowboys doing insulation and getting electrocuted due to being cowboys.

This could be looked at with regulating installers like SEI does. Something to build on maybe.

Yeah thats something similar to what I heard.

The problem, imho, with grants is (at least) twofold:
1. It attracts all sorts of so-called experts, aka cowboys. This is true in Ireland as much as anywhere else even with SEAI regulation.
2. "Grants make people stupid". I first heard this being said in Germany from a representative of the PHI. At first when I heard it I wondered but have since come to realise how true it is. The average consumer thinks that because there is a grant for a measure then it must be good and the (SEAI) registered contractor must be competent. Their normal/natural scepticism is reduced as a result and often they are sold something which is either unsuitable, inappropriate and installed badly by a slick talking salesman / cowboy just because there is a govt grant available.

yeah agree on that with regulation of installer being hard but could be improved on.

i love the cycle to work scheme as well run and big saving to end user and boosts the bike shops cash. ok sometimes you go for the better bike which is fine. downside has been increase in robbery of more expensive bikes. This links into power saving and reducing dependencies on non renewable energies.

Broad subject area though so mulling around ideas.

jeckle

paddy147 wrote: »

You really are helpfull,arent you.:rolleyes:

I'm obviously more helpful than you - you didn't bother offering any help whatsoever, but yet you went to the trouble of posting a sarcastic remark & rolleyes, which is pretty ignorant & childish, & certainly not at all constructive. It certainly doesn't add to the thread in any way, but if you get off on that sort of thing - so be it. :rolleyes:

Not that I have to explain myself to the likes of you, but for the record I suggested using Google, as all the OP has to do is to type 'grants available for the insulation of attics' (which are the exact words that he/she included in post #1) into a Google searchbox & guess what? The very first link of hundreds is one for SEI Insulation Grants explained in detail, together with the link that was given to the OP in post #3, so I can't see what your problem is - nor do I care.

It takes allsorts I suppose.

Micky Dolenz

paddy147 wrote: »

You really are helpfull,arent you.:rolleyes:

Oh the irony. Leave it out paddy, please

paddy147

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Oh the irony. Leave it out paddy, please

Im actually alot more helpfull on this forum,than people seem to think and remember,.

So telling someone to google it,just like that,is not a helpfull post at all,and shows that the poster can be bothered to help out the OP.

paddy147

jeckle wrote: »

It certainly doesn't add to the thread in any way, but if you get off on that sort of thing - so be it. :rolleyes:

Not that I have to explain myself to the likes of you,
It takes allsorts I suppose.

Jeckle,wind your neck in there,with your comments about me and refferals to me.

A quick look at your posts on this forum so far,shows you dont know very much,judging by your own posting standards.


You helped out,really????

Eh no you didnt.

You simply posted a lazy ass post to the OP,

Micky Dolenz

paddy147 wrote: »

Im actually alot more helpfull on this forum,than people seem to think and remember,.

So telling someone to google it,just like that,is not a helpfull post at all,and shows that the poster can be bothered to help out the OP.

paddy147 wrote: »

Jeckle,wind your neck in there,with your comments about me and refferals to me.

A quick look at your posts on this forum so far,shows you dont know very much,judging by your own posting standards.


You helped out,really????

Eh no you didnt.

You simply posted a lazy ass post to the OP,

Banned.