SEAI warmer homes scheme

does it matter where they are?

would it matter that much? do they not cause draught anyway by just being in the room in the first place

is it in building regs. or where?

did there earlier but seemed to be a lot of American systems

yeah, wonder would it make a whole lot of difference though. place we're in now has them lower so guess we'll find out.

you'd think with vents high it'd make the ceiling & top of windows cooler first to condense on

So an inspector from the original contracted company (not the guys who actually did the job) came out to do a snag today, he was very secretive about any issues he had, but the ones we had in my photos above, he was happy were not snags and just the way they do it. The PM has still never visited the house since work started and still only contacted via telephone once. There’s been multiple leaks from all pipework they’ve touched, most external pipework drops and there’s been internal leaks, some which have destroyed a section of ceiling from where they ripped the condenser pipe through the wall so it was no longer attached to the boiler on the inside. This was only noticed weeks later when wet patches appeared and when I got into the attic the place was soaked. They tired to send non RGI guys to fix pipework on the boiler side, we’d to decline this and they weren’t happy about it but did send RGI to fix eventually.

We’ve now told them we are declining any internal work as we don’t believe their work will be up to standard, they can pump the front cavity to finish the external and then we don’t want anymore to do with them.

Just to give you an idea of some other stuff they’ve done, this is only what I can think off off the top of my head right now. They swapped out some of the guttering with metric instead of the originally used imperial, the original fittings were present, not damaged and we had spare pipe to extend the 100mm, but all are now missing and they’ve used a mix mash of different ones, to fill the gaps between metric and imperial they’ve had to use upside down fittings, screws and silicone, when we weren’t happy, as they are now all mismatched shades of white we were told they’re the experts NOT US, THERE IS ONLY ONE SIZE. We will probably end up just replacing all guttering ourselves as we are unhappy with the current state it’s left although functional at least for now.

They broke the concrete on the edging of the roof tiles and a section of them slipped off, this was while we were away and thankfully the felt prevented a leak, I’ve temporarily fixed this myself.

The front and back grass has had to be reseeded as was covered for 2 months with supplies and bags of rubbish.

They dented the quarter panel on my car and when raised with them they got really agro and told me to F off.

SEAI had been contacted by phone, photos sent by email with our concerns and they’ve chosen to ignore us.

We will end up paying a professional company to fix the areas that were finished extremely poorly. Unfortunately we don’t have money to do that ourselves at the moment, so will see how it ages and review closer to the summer.

Cheers for the link, that’s the plan, we’re just waiting on them to say the outside is completely finished. We are exactly 2 months since it started tomorrow.

Been reading through your experience, very sorry for what must be a stressful time of it all for you.

I qualify for Warmer Homes because of the working family payment. My initial application was accepted only last month. So I’ve a long road ahead, I really hope it’s a smoother one!

What i find really strange is that when it comes to grants for insulation, PV and Heating controls they are really strict and conduct audits and companies are sh1tting themselves they'll be removed form the list, but for warmer homes they don't seem to have the same level.

We applied last April, so when we eventually do get it done i'll be keeping an eye on everything they do.

BER came in, we moved from a b3 before EWI to a b2 after the works, also randomly got an email from from SEAI today regarding the incorrect installers names and incorrect install dates on the contractors paperwork.

“Thank you for contacting SEAI and bringing this matter to our attention, which we regard with utmost seriousness. We have asked the contractor to correct the documentation and re-issue it to you.”

Something tells me they’ve read this thread 🤣

I can already notice the wall colour going off(going a brownish colour) where the drain pipes weren’t lined up correctly with the short or wall sealed correctly around them. I’ll have to diy repair that one myself come summer.

here’s some of their work around shores

Just to note most the fittings used on the drain pipes came from a box of second hand parts not necessarily from our house. They misplaced a lot of the original parts.

This shore was blocked the other day, which I’d told them we need access to them for if something like this happened, but they’ve glued all the drain pipe together so I couldn’t remove it to lift the grate to help free the blockage. I might add what came up from the shore was mostly insulation foam. I’ve since cleaned with a powerhose.

After 8+ call outs from GNI, they eventually moved their pipework out from the wall and then the contractor never turned up to space out the pipe, GNI returned back and re- sealed it back into the ground but was too close to the insulation to render behind so they cut out a hole behind the pipe, back to the concrete.

PS. I’ve no idea why their gas installer chose to run the pipe up on the left side of the box, made zero sense, there was room on the right to take the same route🫣

**fecking boards, I can see those pics on the edit, I’ll fix from PC tomorrow