Home User Guide Template

The Home User Guide Template was developed by the Irish Green Building Council as part of a project funded by Construct Innovate and Cairn Homes. 

This template is for home-builders and developers who are providing home user guides to people moving into a newly built or renovated home. 

The Home Performance Index, Ireland’s national certification scheme for new homes, includes home user guides in its best practice on customer care. By using this template, your home user guide will align with the standards and recommendations set out in the Home Performance Index Technical Manual. 

This template guide includes information to help people get to know their home and the surrounding area. It also includes information about using and maintaining the systems in the home. You can adapt the text to fit specific homes and to make sure your guide covers all the essentials. 

Download the Home User Guide

Home User Guide – Template InDesign

Home User Guide – Template Word

Additional documents:

• • Home User Guide – A4 Tpis
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We would also like to acknowledge the valuable contributions and feedback from our project collaborators, whose input helped refine and improve this template. A full list of contributors is available here: Home User Guide Contributors list.