No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Could be. I can't find any pictures on Google of Avonree houses.

Ro fab are another one.

Had these buildings a flat roof?

There was one near here with a flat roof, a housing estate was built on the land a few years ago, during construction of the estate the builders knocked the chimney and placed their site office on top.

That one looks a bit more homely, the one I remember was a concrete box with a chimney sticking out of it, roof was a flat concrete slab. Functional and normal enough inside but outside looked industrial.

Think the one I remember may have been shuttered and poured onsite as opposed to precast panels.

Plenty of them about, many wouldn’t notice they are prefabricated panels.

This couple are probably together for the last 4-6 years. They may have travelled a lot and have had a very laid back lifestyle. It never said what she worked at but his main job was as a lecturer. With all assignments and final exams online for the last ten years he may have spend 4-6 months abroad every year depending on her job. She is probably some type of independent contractor as her.income seems to have shrunk when her baby arrived.

Probably super intelligent but very naive. Are probably very good to rough it at home or abroad. They/he was probably being cute as he did not want the budget to go over board ( which it did anyway) with the architect

As well if you look at the timeline this house started early 2020 and.only finally finished in the last couple of months. Most of the work was in the last 6-8 months. Build costs have jumped 50% since early 2020.

What catched me is that Architects and structure engineers take so much for granted. I was watching the BS over this feature strut in the living area. When I did up the old farm house I used such a feature to support the upstairs, no Architect or engineer to pay.

An awful lot of that generation are caught as renting was cheap from 2010-2016/2018( depending whether in Dublin or elsewhere in Ireland) and they left the property bust behind them and are now paying for it.

Fur coat no knicker is another analogy. Or as another lad used to say years ago ''Merc outside the door concrete floors'' and they were not polished

I don't know if I should so I'll keep it a little vague.

A certain UK female shepherdess who appeared on TV is rumoured elsewhere on social media to have split from their husband.

Wrangler is a big fan.

Maybe they've posted themselves previously on their social media outlets. Could be in the world we're in now.

I saw that, can't say I'm surprised

That's exactly what I thought bass, very intelligent fella but no way savvy to what was going on. Herselfs cousin is an architect and we had meeting with him when we were thinking about going at the house a few years ago, after about 2 minutes I figured he hadn't much regard for our money and I made sure he got none of it after that. Knew what we wanted anyway and got an engineer to draw up plans for 1500 and that covered everything up to planning approval. She had a more realistic view of our budget and what we could expect to get done for it. Good functional layout too with plenty of light coming into the living areas. That house is standing that family about 200k too much from what I can see at a conservative estimate. Basically gave 325k for a site. Lunacy. Even the 320k to renovate it seems extortionate for the size of it. Must be fair off putting for young people thinking of building to be watching it.

Those prefabricated bungalows were known as Roe-fabs (RoFabs?) up in the north West.

Uncle and cousins had one in Sligo, and they are to be seen in Cavan, Leitrim also.

Often had a kind of stone/ pebble dash finish on the end walls, you'd imagine they put a layer of smooth stone into a mould/frame and poured in a layer of concrete after.

Single glazed windows as well, so the thermal efficiency was brutal.

70k for that was daylight robbery to be honest. I know there was bit of labour in it but it wouldn't be the most expensive part of the house material wise. Architects should be jumping in and tackling builder about it if they were any good. I'd up to sub floor in our house 1950 sq feet and finish floor in garage for 15k only few months ago and I know well it used a lot more Concrete, steel, stone to do it. Builder has some touch out of it. Even with micro digger you wouldn't be that long gutting it.

These projects on rte are monuments to architects grandeur is all. Limestone Cowboy hit the nail on the head, they have no regard for their clients money.

I don't know wrangler, maybe so. Once they committed it was very hard to step back anyway.

Alot of people don't ask for a price beforehand and then get stung .

Just on the bungalow bliss I reckon you'd want to do a lot of the demolition work yourself to keep costs down. Cant understand when they had to remove all internal walls ( unfortunate ) the architect didn't alter plans re layout as seem to put back bedrooms as were before. Anyway looks like I'll have to do something myself, inherited bit of land and bungalow from uncle, he was in nursing home for 8 years, did nothing during that time ( copper cylinder was stolen etc ). Then costs got high but now co co have put derelict notice on it, going to charge 7% of value if nothing done