Ask an installer how long a grant pack takes and you'll hear "about half an hour" — said the way people underestimate things they hate doing. Timed honestly, a full SEAI pack done by hand is closer to an hour.
Where the 60 minutes goes
- Re-typing the same homeowner and system details into five separate forms
- Lining up text inside the NC6's per-character boxes by hand
- Chasing the homeowner for a signature on the Declaration
- Finding the current SEAI template and double-checking it's the latest
- Fixing the one field you got wrong and re-exporting everything
None of it is hard. All of it is slow, repetitive, and easy to get marginally wrong in a way that costs you a week later.
The 10-minute version
Enter the job once. GrantDocs writes every document from it, onto SEAI's own templates, with the NC6 boxes calibrated to the cell so text lands centred like you'd hand-write it. The homeowner signs from their phone. You download the ZIP. Ten minutes, most of which is you typing the job details — the part only you can do.
Fifty minutes back, per job. Over a busy month that's days you didn't spend at a desk. Spend it on the next install, or don't spend it at all and go home.