Those nice looking halogen downlighters in your home could be costing you hundreds of euros a year in elecricity. You could reduce your electricity usage by replacing the halogen bulbs with low energy LED bulbs. The most common fitting for those spotlight type recessed downlights are GU10 fittings. Most halogen Gu10 bulbs are 50 watt [...]
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Grants for Roof and Wall Insulation: The Home Energy Saving (HES) scheme has been launched this year in Ireland to provide assistance to homeowners in improving the energy efficiency of their home in order to reduce energy use and costs and greenhouse gas emissions. It is a national scheme and thus open to all owners [...]
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Building Energy Rating Certificates are now mandatory on existing homes that are put up for sale or rent from today (Jan 1st 2009). Homeowners who are not selling or renting their house do not have to apply for a BER cert. If a house was put on the market before January 1st 2009 – it [...]
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Heat recovery ventilation is a ventilation system that employs a counter-flow heat exchanger between the inbound and outbound air flow. HRV provide fresh air and improved climate control, while also saving energy by reducing the heating (or cooling) requirements. The Benefits: As building efficiency is improving with more insulation and with buildings made more air-tight, [...]
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Solar water heating An average household can save about 50% of the annual cost of hot water using solar panel. There are two main types of solar water heating panels – flat plate and evacuated tubes (referring to the way in which water interacts with the panel). Evacuated tubes are more efficient than flat plate [...]
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With BER – Building Energy Ratings coming iinto force for all house sales in January 2009 – Insulation is an easy way of increasing your property’s BER. Each type of insulation is fitted differently but most insulation can be installed as a DIY project. Whatever type of insulation you choose, you’ll need to make a [...]
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BER Assessors located in County Clare: Dave Harkness BER Assessor Company: Seed Environmental Email: energy@harky.org Address: Seed Environmental Caherhurley Bodyke Tel: 087 7451687 David O’Brien BER Assessor Company: 3D Engineering Ltd Email: daveobrien1@eircom.net Address: 3D Engineering Ltd Cappamore Barefield Ennis Tel: 0879172171 Declan McInerney BER Assessor Company: Email: declan.mcinerney@o2.ie Address: “Allendale” Lahinch Tel: 086 8157102 [...]
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The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources have announced a new Home Energy Saving Scheme aimed at encouraging homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. The scheme will target older housing as these homes are most in need of energy efficiency retrofitting. Initially, there will be a regional pilot of the scheme [...]
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Building Energy Ratings Assessors (BER) in Co Kilkenny Barry Lynch Co. Kilkenny Company: EDPM Ltd Email: Address: EDPM Ltd Unit 5 Village Business Centre Upper New St Kilkenny Tel: 0567723707 Fax: 0567756466 Web Site: Expiry Date: 31/12/2008 Locations covered: MUNSTER Registration Type: NEW DWELLINGS Ben Hickman Co. Kilkenny Company: D. Brennan & Associates Email: ben_hickman@hotmail.com [...]
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List of BER Registered Assessors – Building Energy Regulations Ireland in County Cavan Company: Brendan Smith Consulting Engineer Email: bsce@eircom.net Company: Airpacks Ltd Email: sales@airpacks.ie Company: P and S Civil Works Ltd Email: declangaffney@pandscivilworks.com Derek McCabe Co. Cavan Company: CO2.ie Email: derek@roebuckhouse.ie Gerard Reilly Co. Cavan Email: gerardreilly2000@yahoo.co.uk Gerry Brady Co. Cavan Email: egbrady07@eircom.net Nevin [...]
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Timber Frame or Concrete Block? This is the choice many self builders have to decide on. Both methods have their good and bad points – here is the Timber Frame industry version of why to build a Timber Framed House: Other sizes:M | L The New Timber-frame Home: Design, Construction and FinishingPrice: £11.42 GBPLowest used [...]
In Ireland it is estimated that up to 200,000 people involved in rental or sale transactions will need Building Energy Rating (BER) certificates each year. A BER (Building Energy Rating) is the standard calculation of the energy performance of a building, produced by a qualified assessor. The BER certificate is an energy label, similar to [...]
There are plenty of books out there to help you with all aspects of home buying and selling, moving house, renewable energy options and green living. Amazon is the best known bookshop in the world – and they deliver to Ireland too.
PTSB have launched a Green Mortgage – basically any PTSB Irish mortgage applicant can ask for the Green Mortgage – and get the following 1. 10% off a Botanic Greenhouse at www.botanicgreenhouses.ie 2. €1,000 discount off a Shomera at www.Shomera.ie 3. 15% off a new bicycle at www.cycleways.com 4. Free electricity meter (worth €42) when [...]
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With the introduction of the €4,200 ‘Greener Home Scheme’ grant last year, wood pellet boilers and stoves are now a popular choice for domestic heating . With oil and gas prices probably rising in the future , it will be significantly cheaper to run a heating system on wood pellets. Wood pellet systems are also more environmentally friendly [...]
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