A real home, for a fraction of a conventional build, and built to last 30 years.
Not everyone wants a garden room. Some people want the actual home, on their own site, with planning, to live in.
The trouble has always been the build: €110,000–€180,000 for a modular unit from an Irish builder, a nine-to-twelve-month wait, and a process that drains the budget before the kitchen's in. For a first-time buyer or a self-builder, that's often the difference between a home and a wait.
Ériu changes the price and the timeline, without touching the standard.
A genuine, warm, permanent home
A ~34 m² Ériu home arrives folded on one lorry and expands on site in a single working day. Specified to Irish Building Regulations, BER-A2 on a correctly installed unit, and finished to your tier. It's a real home, not a portacabin.
It starts at €12,995 FOB China and reaches a fully-fitted, compliant home at a fraction of the €110,000–€180,000 an Irish-built equivalent costs. Your exact all-in figure is project-specific: our quote covers the unit FOB China, your own Irish freight forwarder and customs broker quotes shipping and customs, and your contractor prices the site works. And where a conventional build takes the best part of a year, a typical Ériu project takes 14 to 18 weeks from order to move-in, including your own contractor's site works. For most people, the time saved matters as much as the money. See the full cost breakdown →
On a site of your own, as opposed to a back garden, the planning route differs: the back-garden auxiliary-dwelling exemption won't apply, and you'll typically need planning permission for a dwelling on its own site. We'll tell you which route applies to your site at the eligibility review, and we 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 you deserve a real answer.
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. Wet, windy, frost: the U-values, the cladding lap details, the roof falls and the air-tightness are all set for here, 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 before it is sealed and loaded. And it's supplied with the full Building Regulations compliance pack, because a permanent home has to be right for the long run, not just the day it lands.
That's the whole point of buying from an Irish-owned company that inspects every unit in person, rather than an anonymous online listing: when you have a question in year three, you're ringing Ireland.
How it's this affordable
Our founder, Noel, has been an Irish sourcing agent in Henan since 2008. We buy direct from the factories that build these homes, inspect each one ourselves, and remove the European intermediary markup. Same steel, same insulation, same compliance, direct pricing.
The honest checklist for a home on a site
A permanent dwelling on your own site means a foundation to suit your ground, services connected (water, drainage, electricity), a Commencement Notice, a BER on completion, and, outside the back-garden exemption, almost always planning permission. Your own contractor handles the site works, and the compliance pack we supply gives them and your certifier everything they need for a certified, occupiable home. We'll map the exact steps for your site before you commit a euro.
Get a quote for your home.
Tell us your site, your county and your timeline. We'll confirm which planning route applies, and come back with a factory-direct FOB quote and the compliance pack. Shipping and customs are handled by your own Irish freight forwarder and customs broker, and site works are quoted by your own contractor. Direct reply from Noel within 24 hours.
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