Fancy living 'off-grid'?
At least you can pass the time dancing.
Good point! 😂
Just on that topic of sheds and electrical problems, this is the type of thing going on. Recipe for disaster
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A building made with fire retardant materials to help slow a fire if one occurs and thereby give the occupants time to evacuate.
A building made to a certain standard to help prevent damp and the effects that mould can have on the occupants.
Electrics that adhere to certain standards to help minimise the risk of fire or electrocution.
A radon barrier installed to help prevent the occupants from dying of lung cancer.
Heating systems that adhere to certain standards to help protect the occupants and the environment.
A carbon monoxide alarm to help prevent the occupants from potentially dying from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Doors and windows that are of regulation height and width that help allow people ease of access/exit in an emergency.
That's just a few things that I could think of off the top of my head.
Elvis and Jesus approve
When you're enjoying a Friday Funday with your OH in that bed, are you more creeped out by Jesus or Elvis watching you? 🤔
Elvis is god. Haha! Two pictures of Jesus and a massive picture of Elvis in between them.
A quaint little cottage until the owner decorated after taking LSD ...
I have too many questions...
At least that's handy!
Modern apartments and houses have materials built into them that stops the spread of fire. These garden sheds that are rented out to students have nothing of the sort. It doesnt matter that they are on the ground level and the door is right there because when people are sleeping and a fire breaks out it is the smoke that sends them unconscious and then the fire that kills them.
You only have to look at what happened in Carrickmines on the halting site in 2015, 11 people including children died in those caravans yet they were only a door way away from safety. But they were not able to rescue themselves because the smoke inhalation had already knocked them out.
The other problem is the electricity supply, these sheds dont have an independent supply but instead they have electrical wires running from the main house. If a qualified electrician was to wire one of these up for cookers, fridge freezer, tv points, washing machines etc and later an electrical fire breaks out with a death occurring the electrician himself is wide open to being sued. I would say qualified and experienced electricians would stay away from that type of job because the landlord is asking them to knowingly break fire regulations by wiring up a shed for habitation that doesnt meet what is specified in law. So what it ends up in is either the landlord does the wiring themselves or some handyman who isnt a qualified electrician does it. Because of an unqualified person doing it the chances of something going wrong and a fire breaking out actually increase.
At this stage there are thousands of these garden sheds being rented out in Dublin and all around the country, they come up on Daft all the time. If you Google Earth around DCU you can see lots of them in peoples gardens that are more likely than not being rented out to student for easy money while ignoring all the fire regulations. Its a recipe for disaster IMO, sooner or later we are going to see a tragedy in one of them.
Two minutes from graveyard when you finally give up at the thought of paying that much for there
Jesus, that's depressing! A bit of colour, somewhere other than the tiny kitchen table as a place for a TV and wardrobe doors would have made a big difference. You get free hangers though!
It's clean, bright and modern but would be like a form of torture on a dull, wet day.
Edited sorry about that
No link?
50 shades of....
A very weirdly shaped kitchen/living/dining room.
If you go on street view do a 180° and I think it's the extension on the corner.
https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/apartment-cookes-terrace-bohermore-co-galway/3485777
that’s my question. What more fire regs are there? Seems safer than a 2 bed flat with windows at one side on the 8th floor. Let alone a studio with a single window up high.
follow the fire regs?
a smoke alarm, a fire extinguisher and plenty of windows. What more can be done?
It's hard to escape when you're asleep, probably with no smoke alarm.
Fud.
They'd be too easy to escape from for that to happen. In this country they blast fear into us about everything to do with legalities and liability. It keeps the insurance industry ticking over
The problem with these sheds being offered as accommodation to be rent out is they dont come anywhere near meeting the building regs which means they dont meet the fire regs either. There are thousands of these sheds all over Dublin rented out to students. Sooner or later one of them is going to go on fire and if the consequences are fatal then the landlord will find himself in handcuffs for contributing to someones death by knowingly renting out a shed that didint meet the fire regulations. If that happens then the councils will be forced to crack down on them.
Prime development location smack bang in the middle of Lucan village. It will probably go or more than that.
Ah yes the caveats of the powers that be enforcing a minimum price of getting a roof over your head
Thats better
Unusual decoration!
If it’s done properly surely there are no problems. The developed in question probably wanted to demolish the listed building.
there are plenty of examples in Dublin. The millhouse in Bellevue apartments in islandbridge was listed, as was Clancy barracks and the adjoining officers mess. They’ve all been turned into apartments with the original facade retained.
I think they are being sold as holiday homes to be fair. I wouldn't be surprised if some "enterprising" soul decided to knock a few up and rent them to hard ups though. Looking into them you need to provide your own mains water and electricity supply and I assume some sort of drainage so it would cost significantly more than the £20k quoted.
I agree it'd be a nice little holiday getaway.
Ooh whatever about the regs wouldn't it be lovely to have something like that on a nice plot of land in a nice place as a bolthole for when you need a bit of time for yourself.
Developers know ways around listed/protected buildings. There's no real consequences to damaging or knocking them, and it saves them money in the long run, when they don't follow the correct process.
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