Deepretrofit Grant

tobehonestwithy

Has anyone got this? we are currently upgrading our home and adding two extensions to the property, A large reason fro the upgrade was insulation and heating. House was built in 1973 and is very cold.

I was on the SEIA website as someone mentioned a 50% grant for houses that upgrade their energy rating to A3. Now, on teh SEI website it says this:

"If you are a homeowner interested in the Deep Retrofit of your home, you should contact your local authority, local energy agency or community group to see if you can get involved through them. We are currently not accepting applications from individual homeowners. We need to learn through the pilot before developing a model to deliver high quality deep retrofit to individual homeowners."

So I rang the Roscommon Co. Council. They actually told me to go to the SEIA website as they weren't sure. I'm not sure who i should be contacting for this?

Lumen

I've had some contact with a crowd called Snip on this subject.

Confusingly, they don't just do work in Tipp (I am in Wicklow).

Snip

The way it was described to me (and I may have misremembered/misunderstood), the agency acts as some combination of architectural technologist and QS, preparing the application on behalf of the homeowner, and the work is done by builders to their spec.

Airtightness testing is included, before and after. But this is a pure BER-chasing exercise, so no consideration is given to aesthetics. Which means you're going to get uPVC windows not aluclad or whatever. I'm not sure how aesthetic upgrades are integrated/paid for.

Anyway, the way this worked is that I made an online application to Snip and then got a call. Since then (a couple of months ago) I've heard nothing, but I was advised that the process is not quick.

5th wheel

The county councils say they have no funding for the grants, also on the SEIA website it states applications have to be for 5 units

Jaymacc

tobehonestwithy wrote: »

Has anyone got this? we are currently upgrading our home and adding two extensions to the property, A large reason fro the upgrade was insulation and heating. House was built in 1973 and is very cold.

I was on the SEIA website as someone mentioned a 50% grant for houses that upgrade their energy rating to A3. Now, on teh SEI website it says this:

"If you are a homeowner interested in the Deep Retrofit of your home, you should contact your local authority, local energy agency or community group to see if you can get involved through them. We are currently not accepting applications from individual homeowners. We need to learn through the pilot before developing a model to deliver high quality deep retrofit to individual homeowners."

So I rang the Roscommon Co. Council. They actually told me to go to the SEIA website as they weren't sure. I'm not sure who i should be contacting for this?

Any luck with this?

Jaymacc

Lumen wrote: »

I've had some contact with a crowd called _snip_ on this subject.

Confusingly, they don't just do work in Tipp (I am in Wicklow).

snip/

The way it was described to me (and I may have misremembered/misunderstood), the agency acts as some combination of architectural technologist and QS, preparing the application on behalf of the homeowner, and the work is done by builders to their spec.

Airtightness testing is included, before and after. But this is a pure BER-chasing exercise, so no consideration is given to aesthetics. Which means you're going to get uPVC windows not aluclad or whatever. I'm not sure how aesthetic upgrades are integrated/paid for.

Anyway, the way this worked is that I made an online application to -snip-and then got a call. Since then (a couple of months ago) I've heard nothing, but I was advised that the process is not quick.

Did you hear anything back from Tipp yet?

Lumen

Jaymacc wrote: »

Did you hear anything back from Tipp yet?

Nope.

Jaymacc

Lumen wrote: »

Nope.

I am tempted to call them and see if they are taking new applicants as we need to get all done by July.

Lumen

Jaymacc wrote: »

I am tempted to call them and see if they are taking new applicants as we need to get all done by July.

Please post with the outcome. Would be good to know how you get on.

headtheball14

-snip-were the first to do this, found them a bit flaky on follow up and last year they never got back in touch after discussion with them,
Current list of retrofit providers is available on seai website here
https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/deep-retrofit-grant/

BryanF

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