A real home, built to last 30 years, for a fraction of an Irish build

Not everyone wants a garden room. Some people want the actual home, on their own site, with planning, to live in for good. And the thing that has always stood in the way isn't the desire. It's the build.

An Irish-built modular home runs €110,000 to €180,000, takes the best part of a year, and drains the budget before the kitchen is in. For a first-time buyer or a self-builder, that gap is often the difference between a home and a wait. There's now a way to change the price and the timeline without touching the standard.

What you actually get

A unit like the Ériu 20ft Expandable arrives folded on one lorry and opens to roughly 34 m² in a single working day. It's specified to the Irish Building Regulations, achieves an A2 BER on a correctly installed unit, and is finished to your tier, a real, warm, permanent home, not a portacabin.

It starts from €25,000 delivered and reaches a fully-fitted, compliant home for a fraction of the Irish-built figure. Because the site works vary, the exact all-in number is project-specific and itemised in your quote, but where a conventional build takes nine to twelve months, an Ériu project typically installs in 14 to 18 weeks from order. For most people, the time saved matters as much as the money. Here's the full picture for a home on your own site.

One honest distinction: on a site of your own, the back-garden auxiliary-dwelling exemption does not apply, you will typically need planning permission for a dwelling on its own site. We confirm which route applies at the eligibility review and won't sell you a unit you can't lawfully site.

The 30-year question: will it last?

This is the real objection to anything imported, and it deserves a real answer rather than a brochure line.

Every Ériu home is built on a channel-steel base frame, with insulated sandwich panels (upgradeable to PIR for Part L), double-glazed aluminium openings, and, critically, it is specified for the Irish climate before it's built. The U-values, the cladding lap details, the roof falls and the air-tightness are all set for wet, windy, frost-prone conditions, not for somewhere drier.

It carries a 30-year anti-corrosion warranty, given by the factory and carried by Ériu, so the cover is held here in Ireland. It's photographed at the factory, again at Dublin Port, and again on site before craning, and it's supplied with the full Building Regulations compliance pack. That's the point of buying from an Irish-owned company that inspects every unit in person: when you've a question in year three, you're ringing Ireland, not an anonymous listing.

How it's this affordable, no mystery, no cut corners

The saving comes from one place. Our founder, Noel, has been an Irish sourcing agent based in Henan since 2008. We buy direct from the factories that build these homes, the same ones supplying European projects, inspect each one ourselves, and remove the European intermediary margin. Same steel, same insulation, same compliance, direct pricing.

The honest checklist for a home on a site is short and we'll map it before you commit a euro: a foundation to suit your ground, services connected, a Commencement Notice, a BER on completion, and, outside the back-garden exemption, almost always planning permission. Our installer network handles the site works and we co-ordinate the compliance paperwork, so what you end up with is a certified, occupiable home.

A real home doesn't have to mean a real wait, or a price that closes the door before you reach it.