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Building a house for cash

  • 02-05-2013 3:30am
    #1
    cikearney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭


    Hi working abroad at the moment, savings going very well, we have savings at home and land.

    Is there anything to stop legally us getting started on building using or hard earned money? besides planning.


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  • #2
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    There is no law to stop you spending money. You must observe all taxation laws , health and safety and employment laws but I am sure that is what you mean to do.


  • #3
    cikearney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 226 ✭✭cikearney


    i.e. Tax on goods and services and making sure all safety measures are put in place.

    I will be doing alot of the work myself and labouring myself out to contractors to cut costs.


  • #4
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    You ask a bigger question than most think it is now.

    From March next year the law will oblige you to the name a main contractor - in terms in which you will certify that you are satisfied that this contractor is competent.
    As the building owner, I have assigned the following person as Builder of the works and I am satisfied that they are competent to undertake the works so assigned on my behalf

    There is much more than this as to what the new law requires . Please read and contribute to a thread on this very topic here


  • #5
    tootsy70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭tootsy70


    I know of people who have built their own home using cash, infact they done all the work apart from the eletrics, however they did give the electrician a hand to keep costs down. Im near sure it only cost them 70k to build a 5 bed house. They Bought stuff onsale, got different quotes from building merchants and bought display kitchens,bathrooms for in some cases, 25% of the original cost brand new. Will this be the case for others after this new law, i dont know but im sure some people will find away around it.


  • #6
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    tootsy70 wrote: »
    Im near sure it only cost them 70k to build a 5 bed house.

    How sure ? :pac::pac::pac:


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  • #7
    tootsy70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭tootsy70


    sinnerboy wrote: »
    How sure ? :pac::pac::pac:


    When you consider they built the house doing all the work themselves, i do believe them. At a guess, how much would it cost just for materials when building a house in 2000. A dormer with 3 beds downstairs, 1 bathroom with 2 upstairs with onsuite. I would say 70k would get quite alot if everything was kept simple.


  • #8
    R P McMurphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭R P McMurphy


    tootsy70 wrote: »
    When you consider they built the house doing all the work themselves, i do believe them. At a guess, how much would it cost just for materials when building a house in 2000. A dormer with 3 beds downstairs, 1 bathroom with 2 upstairs with onsuite. I would say 70k would get quite alot if everything was kept simple.

    I think that would be manageable. I think could be done even cheaper if you had the time required to put in the work with natural building materials like cob, rammed earth, your own hemp and limecrete etc., would be an extraordinary amount of work but people do manage it. Something along these lines would be http://www.mudandwood.com/ where the owners/builders salvaged a lot of what went into the house


  • #9
    tootsy70
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭tootsy70


    If a company can sell these at this price finished then someone building a 5 bed doing a large % of the work themselves then i believe that a house can be built for 70k euro.

    <SNIP>


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  • #10
    BryanF
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    tootsy70 wrote: »
    i believe that a house can be built for 70k euro.
    believe what you want, provide actual figures or this post is utter rubish.


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