Furnishing a House

myshirt

I am aware that when a person / family get social housing, they can visit the cwo (or whatever they call them now) to get assistance furnishing the house.

Under what scheme are these payments made? Application process?

Some council houses are appalling; some just meet housing regulations, barely; but most are ok enough I believe, but nevertheless, bare.
Concrete floors. No paint on the walls. Holes in the walls. Broken doors. Gutters missing. Minor things, but difficult enough for a young lady with two or three kids in tow and no job or support.

It's a great country that there is support there.

Gatling

myshirt wrote: »

I am aware that when a person / family get social housing, they can visit the cwo (or whatever they call them now) to get assistance furnishing the house.

Under what scheme are these payments made? Application process?

Some council houses are appalling; some just meet housing regulations, barely; but most are ok enough I believe, but nevertheless, bare.
Concrete floors. No paint on the walls. Holes in the walls. Broken doors. Gutters missing. Minor things, but difficult enough for a young lady with two or three kids in tow and no job or support.

It's a great country that there is support there.

Have you actually been offered a house at all ,

Yes the cwo can help with things like a cooker ,fridge and minor stuff and yes you have to apply for said funds ,

Graces7

vincent de paul sell good furniture cheaply and will help

myshirt

Gatling wrote: »

Have you actually been offered a house at all ,

Yes the cwo can help with things like a cooker ,fridge and minor stuff and yes you have to apply for said funds ,

That was a great help. Thanks.

fussyonion

When we moved into our place, it was in an awful state; concrete floors, walls in bits, basically it was a shell of a house and I couldn't believe the state of it, let alone the wild back garden.
There was no way we could afford to do it all ourselves so we visited the CWO.

He was surprised to hear there were bare floors and said he normally only paid for carpet for a few rooms.
He said he'd need to see the house, and he came down and was shocked at the condition of the property.

He helped us out toward the cost of wooden flooring, which we paid half for, and he gave us some money towards appliances, but really we paid for a lot of it ourselves as we wanted certain furnishings and we didn't expect the CWO to pay for everything.

January

Wow that's mental... I know Fingal County Council go in and absolutely gut the house before letting a new tenant in. It's all freshly painted, new windows put in if they're not up to current standards (and new windows put in if the previous tenant installed different windows) and although there are concrete floors, they're newly poured. Also new kitchens are put in.

fussyonion

January wrote: »

Wow that's mental... I know Fingal County Council go in and absolutely gut the house before letting a new tenant in. It's all freshly painted, new windows put in if they're not up to current standards (and new windows put in if the previous tenant installed different windows) and although there are concrete floors, they're newly poured. Also new kitchens are put in.

They did fit a new kitchen and according to the neighbours, the windows in our place had only been done a few months before the previous tenant died.

You should have seen the floors, though...baby potholes and lumps everywhere...filthy too.
The walls-you'd swear someone took a lump hammer to the walls, they were as bumpy as anything and although it had been painted, it hardly served to make it look any better.

I got someone to repaint and they were able to peel back about five layers of old wallpaper that the Council had painted over.
Place was diabolical but we soon got it looking nice.

Graces7

dreadful some of this and wonderful coping.

private rentals can be bad too...last place every bit of furniture and walls had been scrawled with felt tips and he had painted over black mould,,all the furniture was damaged and the gas oven was ancient and begrimed

good to hear that cwos are good