Just in relaton to the above comment. I would beware of someone who claims to do a BER for 100 Euro.
What is said above is partially true. With a property of a certain vintage the software uses a lot of assumptions regarding uvalues, building material etc. However if a BER is done correctly a correction factor has to be added for any alterations carried out to the dwelling. To carry out these calculations takes a bit of time. Given that that a BER done correctly should take approximately half a day, between travel, measuring and finally calculations, and given that there is a 25 Euro Plus VAT draw down,
I would be cautious as to anyone who claims to do a BER correctly for 100 Euro.
Be sure to ask their back round and how much experience they may have ion the building Industry. remember if you have done any work to your Dwelling it is very important to see the benifit in your rating.
You're missing my point.
There is a huge variance in results, so no matter how much you pay for a BER there is no certainty that it is any way accurate. In fact, the likelihood is that it is inaccurate.
Add to that the fact that you are just obliged to have a BER, not to do anything about it.
In the case of apartments in particular, you can't do much about it anyway, since you don't own the building, just a "cell" within the structure.
Therefore, cheapest is best, if you want to take this from a standpoint of the owner. If I was in the business of renting property in Ireland, my best interests would be served by getting the cheapest BER possible, regardless of its accuracy.
Given the inaccuracy of results currently, a cheap and poorly carried out inspection, with an end result based on an educated guess by the inspector, has as much chance of being accurate as an expensive one where the inspector spent half a day playing with his software.
This whole BER nonsense is a bit like the Safepass scheme for building workers. Herd fifty potential labourers into a room, charge them fifty quid each, and at the end of the day give them an exam that nobody ever fails. Hey presto! Fifty qualified building workers. The only benefits that accrued from the Safepass scheme were gained by the training companies; safety improvements were made on sites by builders driven by a mixture of legislation and insurance costs. The safepass nonsense was a badly thought out scheme that made lots of sense to some clerk at a desk in a government department somewhere, same as this BER racket.