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Revised grant amounts for all wall insulation types and Building Energy Rating (BER)
Internal and external wall insulation grants will no longer be one single amount, but rather be based upon the house type.
Previously internal wall insulation was grant aided for €2500.00 and external wall insulation was grant aided for €4000.00
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We recently completed a home energy upgrade outside Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath with the following improvements.
Young Design Build spent a day recently in Durrus Co. Cork installing a Kal-Fire Heat Pure 85 wood burning fireplace (4-13Kw). Below are staged photographs taken throughout the day. The fireplace opening was pre-constructed in blockwork to suit the Heat Pure 85, but can also be constructed in timber frame to detail, which can eliminate the requirement for foundations and reduce thermal bridging of the raising blockwork through the floor slab. After insulating between the outer blockwork wall and the Heat Pure 85, metal studding was fitted to support a high performance, non-combustible fire protection board ready to be plastered. This board provides up to 240 minutes fire protection. It was a long day but what a view! For more information or obtain a quotation refer to: http://www.youngdesignbuild.ie/PHNAB.html
There are some important details and choices such as to the Soffit when external insulation is the selected upgrade or new build solution for a home or building. The Soffit when not included as a consideration when externally insulating may not affect your SEAI grant, but it will certainly affect your homes energy efficiency. Read the rest of this post: www.youngdesignbuild.ie/EWIS.html#TheSoffit
Everyone is being bombarded these days with which type of renewable will make the most dramatic effect to the energy efficiency of your home. Everyone loves solar panels (but which type), some like wind turbines, photovoltaic solar panels, and then there is all the different types of heat pumps as well as pellet burners, boilers etc.
Everything mentioned above can make a huge difference to individual running costs in a home or be completely ineffectual. Solar panels mounted on a roof facing every direction but south is a favourite of mine, or heat pumps with high running costs which can be attributed to low levels of insulation or poorly installed systems. The only way to correctly choose the correct renewable system is first take account of the homes existing energy efficiency and which Elements of the home that reduce the homes current energy efficiency.
Elements. The building fabric, solid or raised access floor – insulated? External wall insulated? Attic or roof insulation? Boiler type and heating controls? Using an immersion to heat your water during summer time or all year round? Existing windows; are they single, double or treble glazed or even Passive House Institute Certified Window Systems. http://www.pazen.eu/
A professional home energy assessment would help determine the best course of action to take in bringing your existing home up to today’s building standards or to even aim for a Certified Passive House Retrofit.
Below is a Thermal Image of an External Wall with Internal Insulation applied, you can clearly see that the adjoining wall is not insulated. Within the Rectangle a temp difference of 6 degrees is visible.
Below is a Thermal Image of an External Wall with Internal Insulation applied, you can clearly see the fixings. Points 4 and 5 show the locations of the fixings with a temp difference of 3 degrees in comparison to the insulated wall. This highlights the probable use of fixings without a thermal break. Plastic shelves are usually used to create the thermal separation between the external cold wall and internal wall insulation.
There are some important details and choices to be made when external insulation is the selected upgrade or new build solution for a home or building. I shall cover some of the important details which have an effect on both cost and efficiency. The Window Cill is one such detail. Read the rest of this post: www.youngdesignbuild.ie/EWIS.html# InsulatedCill
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