BER certs for rental houses? (1 Viewer)

[theoootini]

anyone move house recently in dublin towen? do most place have BER certs these days? what's an average decent rating to look for? C?

 

[Sweetie]

Found out that if you weren't informed of the BER or the place you rent doesn't have one then your contract or lease is null and void! Which works both ways (your landlord could kick you out with no notice or you could leave with no notice).
Our house was rated quite low, maybe a D but the bills have been pretty low - it's mid terrace so I reckon both neighbours must be heating our house cos we hardly have the heating on in the winter (one storage heater on in the whole house and the open fire on cold evenings).

 

[theoootini]

hmm. mid terrace would help i'd say. must remember to ask for the cert when we go aviewing!

 

[Sweetie]

I'm pretty sure they need one (landlords do) when they register with the PRTB (and they HAVE to do this to be paying tax and doing things above board).

 

[maims bond]

I've been looking around on Daft recently and half the places you see have no BER - Daft list the BER cert if the house has one which is handy. I think the law is that any house being sold/leased/rented at the moment has to have one, but in reality this isn't happening.

 

[damien]

A good few houses that we looked at buying didn't have them, so I'd be surprised if many rentals bothered, whatever about the law. I would say the vast majority of houses in Ireland would be E-G (little/no insulation, older windows). A-B would be an extremely energy efficient house (very well insulated, new windows, some renewable energies involved).

There is pretty much no incentive for a landlord to upgrade a house to any kind of decent level - after all, it's the tenant that pays the energy bills. So unless you're renting a gaff off someone who used to live there and did it up to a good standard, forget about it. As has been mentioned, mid-terrace is the way to go. Mates are currently renting a detached house and €1500 worth of oil didn't even last them one heating season.

 

[magicbastarder]

my house scored a G when i sold it. the BER chap wouldn't take into account the fact that i'd lined the walls with thermal wallboard, because i had no documentation to prove it.