BER rating & ESB Bill

brennarr

Hey guys

Three of moved into a 2 bed apartment about 4 months ago. We asked our landlord for a BER rating but she kept asking what do we need one for. She said the average ESB bill for the apartment was €200-250 a month keeping in mind that storage heaters is our source of heating.

Anyways after must hassle our landlord got the BER done and our rating was a D2. She just put a note on the rating saying "This was the average ratings for apartments built around 00's & before everyone was energy conscious" and left it at that. We got out first ESB bill last week and it cost €535 for two months!!!

This seems quite high for a 2 bed apartment with only 3 people. I know storage heaters is on the ESB but doesnt it still seem high?

D2 doesnt seem to be a good rating or does it? Should I be getting the Landlord to improve the rating or do I have any right to?

Thanks for your help.

No6

The BER Rating unfortunately has nothing to do with the actual energy usage or your ESB bill. It is essentially a comaprison tool to compare averaged energy useages between very different dwellings. The only thign a BER assessor need an esb bill for is the MPRN number to actually locate the property.

You should check was your bill estimated or actually read, and comapre it to the number of units on the meter when you moved in and if estimated the number of units actually on the meter if you have access to it.

recedite

It looks like the landlord gave a good estimate, bearing in mind we have just covered the coldest period.