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Ardwire ElectricalDemo

A site for an electrician who also fits solar panels, heat pumps and insulation, built around a calculator for the SEAI grants.

People pricing a heat pump want to know the grant before anything else. This tells them in a minute, then asks them for a quote.

I made this one to show what a site like this looks like and what it costs. It is not a paying customer's site.

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Ardwire Electrical on a desktop screenArdwire Electrical on a phone

The problem

People in Cork are getting quotes for heat pumps, solar panels and insulation, and the first thing they ask is how much the SEAI grant will cover. Most electricians' sites send them off to seai.ie to work it out, and a lot of them don't come back.

What I built

Five pages for a made-up contractor in Glanmire: home, services, grants, recent work and a quote form.

  • The phone number first. On a phone, the number and a Get a free quote button are on the first screen, and Call, WhatsApp and Free quote stay fixed to the bottom of every page.
  • Services in plain English. What each job involves, what's included, and a typical price.
  • A quote form that does the asking. Name, phone, town, type of job, a few lines and an optional photo of the fuse board or the roof, plus how they'd like to be contacted.
  • The towns covered, recent jobs and reviews, with the reviews clearly marked as made up for the demo.

The grant calculator

Pick the type of house, tick the upgrades, and the total grant appears. It follows SEAI's rules as they're written:

  • New radiators and the boiler removal grant only come with a heat pump.
  • Heating controls don't come with a heat pump.
  • Only one wall insulation grant at a time.
  • An apartment's heat pump system is capped at SEAI's published maximum of €11,500.

Every figure is one SEAI publishes on seai.ie, checked October 2026, and the page says so with a link. Nothing is worked out or guessed. When someone's happy with the total, Get a quote for this carries the upgrades they ticked into the quote form.

The Ardwire Electrical home page: a navy panel with the phone number and a free quote button beside a photo of an electrician testing a fuse board.
The home page. The phone number and the quote button are on the first screen.
The grant calculator for a semi-detached house with a heat pump, new radiators, boiler removal and attic insulation ticked.
The grant calculator, with a heat pump and attic insulation ticked.
The services page: electrical work explained, with what is included and a typical price.
Each service in plain English, with a typical price.
The home page on a phone, with Call, WhatsApp and Free quote buttons fixed to the bottom.
On a phone, Call, WhatsApp and Free quote stay at the bottom of the screen.
The grant calculator on a phone, with the running total fixed to the bottom of the screen.
The running total follows you down the list.

Under the hood

  • Plain web pages, built with Astro, with no framework running in the browser. The calculator is a few kilobytes of script, and the quote form works the same way.
  • The photos are free stock photos from Unsplash. I checked each one at full size, and replaced or retouched any that showed a brand name or a logo.
  • Every photo comes in two modern formats at four sizes, so a phone downloads a phone-sized picture.
  • Google gets the business details it looks for: an Electrician listing with the address, opening hours and every town covered.
  • Lighthouse on a phone: 99 for performance, 100 for accessibility and best practices.

What a site like this costs

From €1,200 for a site with a working feature like this calculator, including the quote form. Hosting and small updates are from €20 a month.

Want one like it?

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Email

I'm in Cork, Ireland. Send me an email and I'll reply the same day. If it's easier to talk it through, we'll pick a time for a call. Or write out what you need.