SEAI warmer homes scheme

100mm external wall insulation and attic insulation is probably all they’d do for you

that’s due to the upstairs having dormers, hence them also hitting the soffit as they couldn’t work out where to drill.

The 2 that actually worked out, I basically measured and told him where to drill, he could have hit the gas main if he drilled where he was about to 👀

well they were about to drill another room that would have hit the gas main until I told them. I believe their solution for the hole hitting the soffit is to duct down at 45° through the insulation to give it clearance of the soffit. I will see what they are doing on the day and if it doesn’t look right I’ll insist they drill a new hole completely

spoke with both, PM is not in the same county, he has seen photos, as have SEAI, he’s assured us it’ll be fixed, SEAI don’t really want to know, they just say to deal with the PM, who was uncontactable until today, which we can only assume is due to contact made with SEAI.

All we can do now is wait until he or the insulation installer shows up and start asking questions about how they plan to fix it then I suppose.

the job is now “complete”, still no word from the pm since the 28th August. Overall the quality of the finish is good but I’ve some major concerns

1. They’ve blocked the soffit vents completely at one part of the roof over the kitchen

2. The part where the damaged soffit vent was, they’ve really restricted ventilation to the roof there, I’d have thought a lot more soffit vents should have been added if insulation was brought right up to it

3. The 2 shores from the gutters, I’d raised concerns about moving these from the beginning but this is how they’ve finished them

this one they didn’t bother extending the pipe and actually cut the pipe shorter as it no longer reaches the shore

GNI has cemented the mains back into the ground before the insulation works was started and it was too close to the insulation so they’ve left a box of no insulation behind, I’d have thought and I suggested at a minimum they should insulate and skim if even only at the 50mm to line up with the skirt as the way it is water can now pool on top of the insulation

*yes the gas box door is yet to be replaced😩

We have sent all these concerns to the PM who has still not been in contact, I think the best approach now is to request the workmanship be inspected by an SEAI registered Technical Advisor for compliance.

The SEAI were pretty dismissive when we contacted them previously with concerns, so maybe we’ll have to contact them in a more public manner to get any satisfaction here

just to be clear here, the contracted company(who are form Offaly) were NOT the guys who actually completed the work, they seem to have subbed it out to various vendors, one of which also happened to dent my car.

Not edenderry, the one van that showed up with logos was from D24, although I’m not sure the guys all worked for that company as I looked them up and their work looks better, in fairness It’s not all bad, I’ve obviously just photographed the bad bits, which are bad.

It is actually metal to rodent proof them, I’ve no pics of it on other drain but it’s like this.

I’m in the process of doing up a document with my issues/concerns.

Did they really enclose the drain pipes? what happens when they get a leak/blocked and need to be replaced? Drain pipes should be external to the wall.

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the OP is getting done via warmer homes. SEAI are picking up the tab, so that can’t happen.