BER Rating low will this help?

kinnitty

Hi, looking for some advice please, my BER rating came back at a G but there were a few things left out of the report and we are making some changes, i know that no one can give me an exact esitmate withiout seeing the house but all i need is a ball park figure.

The house is built in 1932 - two storey two bed one bathroom
No gas oil heated
No TRV on rads
40mm board insulation
300mm attic insulation
5 year old boiler working at 86%
Chimmney is totally covered up and non existent(he had it in repot that there was a chimney!!)
Two lagging jackets on the hotpress boiler
A vent in the two bedrooms
Windows are double glaze
Some form of insulation under the floor boards not sure what its called

All of these points would they make the rating higher - not all of these were donw/taken into consideration when we were given the G grade so now that all amendments have been done can anyone tell me would this bring it up at all? I think we were in teh -500 mark

kinnitty

Oh i meant to say we also had the entire house painted with Evertex, the paint insulates the house from the outside that wasnt factored in either!

Del2005

kinnitty wrote: »

Hi, looking for some advice please, my BER rating came back at a G but there were a few things left out of the report and we are making some changes, i know that no one can give me an exact esitmate withiout seeing the house but all i need is a ball park figure.

The house is built in 1932 - two storey two bed one bathroom
No gas oil heated
No TRV on rads
40mm board insulation
300mm attic insulation
5 year old boiler working at 86%
Chimmney is totally covered up and non existent(he had it in repot that there was a chimney!!)
Two lagging jackets on the hotpress boiler
A vent in the two bedrooms
Windows are double glaze
Some form of insulation under the floor boards not sure what its called

All of these points would they make the rating higher - not all of these were donw/taken into consideration when we were given the G grade so now that all amendments have been done can anyone tell me would this bring it up at all? I think we were in teh -500 mark

Call the person who did the report and ask them why they missed so many things. You paid for something and they did it wrong.

Pkiernan

kinnitty wrote: »

Oh i meant to say we also had the entire house painted with Evertex, the paint insulates the house from the outside that wasnt factored in either!

The paint is BS, and cannot be factored into a BER report.

But for all of the other items, you should be calling the SEAI and reporting the assessor.

2 questions:

1. How long did the assessor spend at your dwelling?
2. How much did you pay for his/her service?

Pkiernan

kinnitty wrote: »

40mm board insulation

You will need to prove this to the assessors satisfaction

A vent in the two bedrooms

A missing vent would improve your rating


Some form of insulation under the floor boards not sure what its called

Again, evidence of this, its location and thickness is required. Given that you do not know what it is called, you cannot expect the assessor to be able to determine it's U value.


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engineermike

This is the software that your BER assessor will use to determine your rating from now on. It's software that is free to download on SEAI’s website from here. You don’t need to be a BER assessor to do a calculation.

http://www.seai.ie/your_building/epbd/deap/download/

M.F