Plan Your Home Energy Upgrade

A 70-page visual workbook for homeowners in Ireland who are thinking about insulation, windows, ventilation or a wider retrofit and want to arrive at the first site visit prepared. It shows you how to read your BER certificate and advisory report, gather twelve months of energy use, survey your home room by room without diagnosing anything, and understand in plain language where heat and air escape from a semi-detached house, a bungalow and a terrace. From there you build the plan: what a phased programme looks like beside a coordinated whole-home scope, a one-page scope of works so every contractor prices the same job, a two-page quotation comparison table with blank euro fields, a budget and contingency worksheet, a disruption calendar, and a handover and aftercare checklist. Three illustrative Irish case studies (a Cork semi-detached, a Galway bungalow and a Dublin terrace) show the method end to end with every figure labelled as an assumption. An independent educational publication by AprendIA, written by Ing. Alex Apfata: it is project planning and consumer education, not installation instructions, a professional BER assessment or financial advice, and it implies no SEAI endorsement, accreditation or grant entitlement.