Shay and Olive built their two story detached home in Newport on the outskirts of Co. Limerick by direct labour in 1976. Their home, which relied on a 1990’s oil boiler for heat, had an ‘F’ BER rating.
Joanne and Pat Clarke from Toomervara, Co. Tipperary retrofitted their 1960's bungalow in 2018 and prior to the retrofit, the house had a BER rating of 'F'.
Before Neil and Aileen Walker retrofitted their 1995-built timber frame house in Ballyboughal, North Dublin it had a C2 BER rating. “Not the worst but not great,” says Neil, an engineer.
Yvonne Doyle’s detached four-bedroom family home that she and her husband built near Templemore, Co. Tipperary in 2004 was never warm enough in winter.
Seamus and Aileen Hoyne’s primary motivation in retrofitting their house was to improve their 165 square metre home near Roscrea, County Tipperary, where they live with their four young children.
Longtime environmentalist Charles Stanley Smith pondered for years about how to stop using oil-fired heating and to improve the energy efficiency of his detached two-story home in Dromineer, Co Tipperary.
