In February 2009 the Minister for Energy Eamonn Ryan announced a €100m home insulation grant package. €50 m of this is allocated for private homeowners who wish to upgrade their homes. To be eligible for this grant the dwelling must be built before 2006. It is expected that homeowners may save up to €700 per year on home heating bills.

Homeowners who wish to avail of this grant must apply for a minimum of €500 worth of grant assistance. The individual grant contributions for each insulation application are shown in the table below.

* It is not possible to avail of grant assistance for either roof Insulation or Cavity Wall Insulation individually as both solutions do not meet the minimum €500 limit. In most cases the home owner will choose to install Cavity Wall Insulation and upgrade attic Insulation at the same time.

Your local Ecobead installer can install Cavity Wall Insulation and install attic insulation. We supply both fibrous and rigid attic insulation in addition to supplying the innovative Attic Access Platform. Please take a look at our range of products in the OTHER SERVICES section of this website.

If you are interested in applying for this grant scheme please register your interest with SEI as soon as possible.

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Important update

From 8th June 2010, a Building Energy Rating (BER) is to be an integral part of all grant applications under the Home Energy Saving scheme, whereby homeowners must undertake a BER on their home after grant aided works have been completed. This will give homeowners a thorough and objective assessment of the energy performance of their home following upgrade works, including a rating on an A-G scale. The first such BER assessment will attract grant aid of €100. SEAI has also developed a smart online Home Energy Self Survey to help homeowners decide which upgrade works might be most suitable for their home. (It is also available in hard copy on request from our call centre at 1850-927000).