# SEAI and local authority home energy grants explained > Every SEAI grant and local authority scheme relevant to heating upgrades in Ireland, with amounts, build-year rules and conditions. Canonical page: https://radiantheatingandplumbing.com/grants ## Attic Insulation Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 1500 Home built and occupied before 2011 Topping up attic insulation is the cheapest meaningful efficiency upgrade in most Irish homes and is usually completed in a day. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Cavity Wall Insulation Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 1700 Home built and occupied before 2011 with suitable cavity walls Bead-filled cavities cut heat loss sharply and pair well with a boiler upgrade. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Internal Wall Insulation Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 4500 Home built and occupied before 2011 Dry-lining internal walls where external insulation is not practical. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## External Wall Insulation Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 8000 Home built and occupied before 2011 Wrapping the outside of the house — the strongest single fabric upgrade available. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Heat Pump System Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 12500 Home built and occupied before 2021. Eligibility varies by applicant type — see the official SEAI page for the current wording. A heat pump only performs in a well-insulated home. We are happy to tell you honestly whether yours is ready. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Heat Pump Technical Assessment Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 200 Applying for a heat pump system grant A registered assessor confirms whether the property fabric suits a heat pump before you commit. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Heating Controls Upgrade Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 700 Home built and occupied before 2011. Eligibility varies by applicant type — see the official SEAI page for the current wording. Zoning, timers and thermostats so you heat only the rooms you use, when you use them. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Solar PV Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 1800 Home built and occupied before 2021 Rooftop solar panels for electricity, reducing your import from the grid. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/solar-electricity-grant/ ## Solar Water Heating Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 1200 Home built and occupied before 2021 Solar collectors that pre-heat your hot water cylinder through the brighter months. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## One Stop Shop Service Provider: SEAI Amount: Grants cover roughly half the cost of a typical deep retrofit Home built and occupied before 2011 A managed whole-house retrofit to a B2 rating with a single provider handling grants and works. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/one-stop-shop/ ## Warmer Homes Scheme Provider: SEAI Amount: Fully funded — no cost to the homeowner Homeowner receiving certain welfare payments, in a home built and occupied before 2006 Free energy upgrades for eligible households, delivered by SEAI-appointed contractors. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/fully-funded-upgrades-for-eligible-homes/ ## BER Assessment Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 50 Completing a grant-supported upgrade A BER is required after grant works and confirms the improvement on paper. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Window Upgrade Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 4000 Home built and occupied before 2011, upgrading to high-performance glazing Available as part of a supported upgrade package rather than as a standalone job. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Gas Boiler Replacement Provider: SEAI Amount: No SEAI grant is available for replacing a gas boiler Not applicable Straight talk: there is no government grant for a like-for-like gas boiler replacement. Grants target insulation, controls and renewables. A new condensing boiler still pays back through lower gas use, and heating controls fitted at the same time are grant-eligible. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/ ## External Doors Grant Provider: SEAI Amount: EUR 800 Homeowner of a property built and occupied before 2011, with an MPRN, using an SEAI-registered contractor. Doors must be replaced with certified energy-efficient doors. Replacing old, draughty external doors with certified energy-efficient doors. Usually claimed alongside windows or insulation rather than on its own. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/individual-energy-upgrade-grants/ ## Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability Provider: Local authority (Wicklow County Council / Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) Amount: EUR 40000 Owner-occupiers (and some tenants) where a person in the household has a disability and the home needs adapting. Funds work that makes a home suitable for a person with a disability: accessible showers and downstairs toilet facilities, access ramps, stairlifts, wheelchair access and other adaptations deemed necessary. Radiant carries out the plumbing side of this work — accessible bathrooms and sanitary facilities. Amounts are set nationally in the 2024 Regulations, but each council runs its own process, waiting list, quote requirements and Occupational Therapist arrangements, so apply through your own local authority. Official page: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/6636c-housing-adaptation-grant-for-people-with-a-disability/ ## Mobility Aids Grant Provider: Local authority (Wicklow County Council / Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) Amount: EUR 8000 Households with a mobility problem, inside the €37,500 gross household income limit. Covers basic works to address a mobility problem: level-access showers, grab rails, stairlifts, ramps and other basic mobility works. Radiant installs level-access showers under this scheme. If the works are more extensive, or the household fails this means test, the Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability is the route instead. Amounts are national; each council runs its own process, waiting list and quote requirements. Official page: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/9ff9f-mobility-aids-grant-scheme/ ## Housing Aid for Older People Provider: Local authority (Wicklow County Council / Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) Amount: EUR 10700 Homeowners aged 66 or over. Occasionally granted under 66 in cases of hardship. Homeowners aged 66 or over can apply to their local council for up to €10,700 toward essential repairs, including the provision or repair of heating and improvements to water supply and sanitary facilities. In Bray and North Wicklow this is administered by Wicklow County Council. The grant is means-tested and works must not begin before approval is granted. The scheme also covers essential repairs, roof repairs, rewiring, and window and door replacement. Heating provision and repair, water supply and sanitary facilities are three of Radiant's core services and are named in the scheme. Official page: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/6636c-housing-aid-for-older-people-scheme/ ## Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant Provider: Local authority (Wicklow County Council / Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council) Amount: EUR 70000 The property must have been vacant for two years or more and built before 2008. You must own it (or be buying it) and live in it as your principal private residence, or rent it out. One grant per applicant per property. A council-run grant for bringing a long-term vacant or derelict home back into use. Heating, plumbing and rewiring works usually form part of the eligible refurbishment cost. Official page: https://www.gov.ie/en/service/vacant-property-refurbishment-grant/ ## Home Energy Upgrade Loan Provider: SBCI and participating lenders Amount: Low-cost loans from €5,000 to €75,000 over up to 10 years, at rates well below standard unsecured lending. Homeowners carrying out SEAI grant-supported home energy upgrades. Lending is subject to the individual lender's credit assessment. A state-backed low-cost loan designed to cover the part of an energy upgrade that grants do not. It is borrowed money, not free money — it is never added to your grant total. Official page: https://www.seai.ie/grants/home-energy-grants/home-energy-upgrade-loan/ --- Radiant Heating & Plumbing — RGI registered gas installer and plumber. 175 Charnwood, Bray, Co. Wicklow · 087 212 0814 · Gerard@radiantheatingandplumbing.com Covering Bray, Greystones, Delgany, Kilcoole, Shankill, Enniskerry, Dún Laoghaire, Stillorgan, Killiney, Dalkey, Cabinteely, Newtownmountkennedy, North Wicklow, South Dublin.