Skylark - Portmarnock

I was told the same by Savills at when we agreed to buy as well.

Still no luck with internet. I’m told they are waiting for extensive ducting to be done on the site and they can’t give me a date for this. They have my address, eircode etc and I’ve been ringing every day with no joy. They can service the area as in wider St Marnocks estate, but our roads are not “ducted” yet - if that makes sense. Electricity is with Panda - we got elec and bins from them.

Think the issue is that they are timber framed which can be harder to convert than masonry

Did somebody check the attic if some flooring is put up by builder? I am just wondering if I need to put some flooring to store in the attic or there is some sort of flooring which is covering the insulation?

I am surprised Kelly said that. I thought attic is part of ur house so do whatever you want and nobody should be bothered. I understand if you are trying to do an extension in garden or in front.

I'm buying one of the 3-beds in the second half of Phase 1C, with the intention to convert it at some point down the line. I am a structural engineer, but not a timber-frame specialist, and in my opinion converting your attic should be possible from a construction point of view - planning, etc. aside. As someone said previously, it is potentially more difficult than your standard masonry walls + timber truss roof conversion. The things to consider would be load paths through in the walls, sizes of foundations, connection details (and access thereto). You'd have to get your hands on structural drawings to know which have foundations under without doing trial pits. Typically only the external walls have foundations (see attached image of Phase1C South courtesy of Tazium. Most importantly though, which is only a concern for the terraced houses not the semi-detached ones due to the depth of the house in the direction of roof pitch, is the head height available in the attic. The ceiling joists and the roof rafters will get deeper in section and detract even more of the available height. You will (should) not get planning permission to alter the roof height of the your house in a terraced row of houses.

Virgin media engineer was out today so fingers crossed we’ll get some positive news next week. Also has anyone been given the welcome pack yet with wall colours etc?

I have booked bins with https://greyhound.ie/. Wondering if any else booked same and have any experience with them?

No update from VM on case. All they told was, its in-progress and they will get back once done.

Anyone know anything about the Welcome Packs and when we will get them? I assume they will provide detailed explanations of a lot of items in the house?

Haven't moved in yet (slowdown with bank yaaay) but great to hear the VM stuff is sorted out in advance

The guys from KN/Virgin were here all day so fingers crossed internet won’t be too far away!

Booked the same for bins.

I wanted to put the ladder on my attic however the attic guy showed me couple of electrical wires just beside the attic door hence its not possible for him to cut the door for ladder and hence the builder's electrician should reroute the wire.(Looks not so good work by the electrician to do that).

I need to ask the foreman to see what he says now 😮. Anyways did anybody face the same issue?

The street is a living advertisement for future phases. There's no way they will leave it looking bad

The ducting is done. KN engineers were out yesterday and the day before and said everything is finished and ready for Virgin to install. Virgin’s sales dept and technical dept clearly aren’t talking to each other. It’s very annoying

Taken yesterday