Sunday, January 18, 2009

Sustainable Energy Ireland another Cock-up?

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BEWARE of the BER
(not a mis-spell)

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Beware of SEI Licenced
BER Assessors


Another Cock-Up by SEI in the licensing and the releasing on an unsuspecting public of BER energy assessors “experts” who will energy test your house for a hefty fee €275 to €358 for between one and three hours work.

A recent article in the Times Online by Colin Coyle titled “One House, three energy ratings paints a familiar picture of more SEI “experts” at work. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5489435.ece Please do read the article, it's an education and may save you money.

The article details an experiment where three SEI licensed “experts” were hired to assess the same house. All three gave very different assessment figures and charged very different fees and took very different times to do the “expert” assessment.

It would be well for the public to beware of anyone calling himself or herself an SEI registered “installer” or “assessor”.

It is a sadly familiar situation to the SEI installer scandal of two years ago. It is yet another illustration of an over funded organisation which lacks any ability to do joined up thinking and is collectively a few brain cells short of a synapse.



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