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Room to Improve (v2)

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    #62
    ShamoBuc
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    John Walsh the builder is great craic.


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    #63
    freshpopcorn
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    appledrop wrote: »

    Where is Gustav from? Very unusual accent maybe a twang of South Africa but not sure.

    There was a mention of somebody being from South Africa at the start!


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    #64
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    That's their A rating gone out the single-glazed, old, wooden windows!


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    #65
    James 007
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    Andrew00 wrote: »
    Obviously she is but rte want us to think Ireland is diverse and what not
    Andrew your dead right, ethnic QS, two gay guys to show we have moved on, & a coloured son throwing in for good measure, anything else that would satisfy your way of thinking:confused:


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    #66
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Mac-Chops wrote: »
    740k on PPR mid 2017. 150k budget to keep it under the 1 mill was a good goal!
    the 150 didn't last very long!


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    #67
    lawred2
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    appledrop wrote: »
    That's the exact words I said aswell! No surprise that the clients thought the same.

    I hope Dermot does f**k this up. Beautiful old house. Yes it needs work + insulation bla bla bla but if he plonks on a glass box at back it just wont work.

    Where is Gustav from? Very unusual accent maybe a twang of South Africa but not sure.

    It'll work alright


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    #68
    jos28
    Registered Users Posts: 7,189 ✭✭✭jos28


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Grace Park Gardens, link posted above

    Priced at 750K in 2016 :eek:

    Was it mentioned what these guys do? Clearly something lucrative!

    Gustav is a banker and Greg is a youth worker


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    #69
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Lol, old school building work before regulations and that.


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    #70
    ScallionAyter
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    Andrew00 wrote: »
    They had to get an ethnic quantity surveyor instead of an Irish one for "diversity"

    Rte are a pisstake

    Next week on Room to Improve: "The Ryans" hire Dermot to spruce up their house*


    *in preparation for selling it and moving abroad.


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    #71
    Alf Veedersane
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    appledrop wrote: »
    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Why the **** would you have two family bathrooms on the same floor, beside each other??? :confused:

    That's the exact words I said aswell! No surprise that the clients thought the same.

    I hope Dermot does f**k this up. Beautiful old house. Yes it needs work + insulation bla bla bla but if he plonks on a glass box at back it just wont work.

    Where is Gustav from? Very unusual accent maybe a twang of South Africa but not sure.

    He's from South Africa


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    #72
    Atlantic Dawn
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    €1800 is farthings on this job.


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    #73
    lawred2
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    Of course they have 1800

    They just magicked up 70k for pointing bricks..

    Ahaha a new roof


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    #74
    jos28
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    Have they miraculously found another €70K :confused:


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    #75
    LirW
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    Mac-Chops wrote: »
    740k on PPR mid 2017. 150k budget to keep it under the 1 mill was a good goal!

    1 million for an A3 old redbrick in affluent Drumcondra is pretty decent. There are redbricks in the area for more than a million on the market that need work to make them warmer.


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    #76
    iamwhoiam
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    I am no expert but should a good architect not anticipate such problems?


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    #77
    appledrop
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    There was a mention of somebody being from South Africa at the start!

    Ah I was right. He doesn't have a really strong accent so hard to work out. He has probably lived away for years so has softened his accent.


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    #78
    HeidiHeidi
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    €1800 is farthings on this job.
    Exactly.


    Complete spoofery.


    Now, 18K might be a different matter :eek:


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    #79
    lawred2
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    Jaysus I've never seen Dermot so pale


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    #80
    HeidiHeidi
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    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I am no expert but should a good architect not anticipate such problems?
    It's a very old house - just looking at them costs a bloody bomb (I own one!)


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    #81
    ShamoBuc
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    Thay will frighten the shít out of them...........he's showing it's getting to him.


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    #82
    SEPT 23 1989
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    That’s not getting finished


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    #83
    LirW
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    Even though we renovated 2 years ago, this whole situation hits home because we had some proper freak revelations too. I guess I'm still a bit sore.


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    #84
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Roof would be €20k plus to redo I'd think.


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    #85
    tototoe
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    Delusional to think they could do this for 150k.


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    #86
    iamwhoiam
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    Jaysus I've never seen Dermot so pale

    He should have bloody well guessed those problems surely


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    #87
    appledrop
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    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I am no expert but should a good architect not anticipate such problems?

    Yep like ffs it's an old house. I was laughing when he said 10 grand for electrics. A joke for a house that age.

    Of course a roof that old will need a load of work.


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    #88
    juneg
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    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    I am no expert but should a good architect not anticipate such problems?

    This x 1000

    Why does he never leave anything for repairs. Why is it always crisis fire fighting


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    #89
    RobertKK
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    There is always something...


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    #90
    Atlantic Dawn
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    €2500 for the chimney redone ain't bad.


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    #91
    Andrew00
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    James 007 wrote: »
    Andrew your dead right, ethnic QS, two gay guys to show we have moved on, & a coloured son throwing in for good measure, anything else that would satisfy your way of thinking:confused:

    Exactly what I'm thinking but didn't want ta say it


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