Clonroosk Abbey, Portlaoise

Hey @mariam123_ , welcome to the group. we are all eagerly waiting for the news that house is ready.

Please drop few lines as an when you got to know something to help others.

Spoke with the site manager. Same stuff as Annarie explained. He said the plumbing work started on Monday. Be looking for 2-3 weeks ( middle of April) before snagging.

Hahhaha. Sorry for laughing, we were told 2 weeks ago that they will start plumbing next Monday.. 2 Mondays passed since.. Tbh, in this rhythm, I don't think they will finish any time soon. And the mortgage approval expires again...

I am so confused... I used to check those as well, but I was hoping that the ones that were given in December were the ones, now they are mentioning 18 more houses?? Isn't that like the whole estate?

Aren't 12 those built next to ours? The part that was erected "overnight"?

I'm sorry the calculation turned out this way.. But 2Q2023 can be any date after 31st of March.. (it was 2023, right? 😅)

Let's hope beginning of April.. 😕 Everything is so disappointing, but we'll just have to wait.

Thank you for the updates! Appreciate it!

There are 10 private houses: Nos 110 to 119. Construction began on these houses after the 14 houses (which were sold to the housing association (council) back in December ‘22). These houses were the show houses we viewed before paying our deposit to the auctioneer in mid ‘21. Then they started the 12 new council houses and the 6 houses around the corner from the 14 (nos 96 to 109). So supposedly the council houses are being released in 3 phases. Phase 1 (14 houses), then Phase 2 (12 houses) June ‘23 and Phase 3 last 6 council houses ( to be decided). So if this is true, I imagine the 10 private houses will be delivered sometime between June and end of ‘23. As we have not had any official date from the developer, the private houses can be delivered whenever the developer feels like, as they have ignored all requests for a completion date from the start. It’s seems like they are losing money with the private houses and even asked the council for a higher price before closing the sale for the 14 houses. So more than likely this can happen with remaining 2 phases.

Hi @mariam123_ , I can understand your frustration. We are all on the same boat. Council house delivery schedule will not match with the private dwelling delivery schedule and Council does not bother whether we get our houses or not. Our solicitor tried multiple times to contact developer solicitor through number of ways ( calls, emails, letters etc) but we are also not hearing anything from them. We deposited on May,21 and contract says within 2 years house will be delivered so technically 2 years completes on May,23 however I am not so optimistic to see this is happening. We really need to explore other options like if we does not get the house on time what are the legal option with us?

Is there any rule to sue the developer for not delivering the house on schedule?

Are there any compensation involve (obviously we want house not money) for delayed delivery?

Any other way to make the developer to deliver the house on time.

I am not so good on legal things and tried to contact solicitor asking what can we do, but the answer was not so satisfactory I would say.

Not much we can do, but usually we can sue the developer for not binding the legal agreement and bring them in the court.

How is everyone doing? I was at the site today. Just to see the state of the house. I couldn't go inside as there was a barricade. I didn't see anyone to speak with because they were all busy on the new site and I didn't book appointment with the foreman cos he will still say 2 weeks as usual.

Outside of the house looks as if everything has been completed. Not sure if inside is completed. But outside look so perfectly completed

Work was going on in the new building. It's still on foundation level. Only small area of the land has few blocks. hope they will not want to finish the new one before delivering this? ( Just thinking out loud)

There are still pipes sticking out on the road. So lots of work to do on the road.

It's still very disappointing that no one is available to give us a snagging date. Or any update.

Hopefully we will hear from them one day.

They look much the same as they were the last time we were down around the end of February. If those are the last two on the row before the green(?) The wiring in the house on the right's bay window hasn't even moved. Disheartening.

Seems something good is cooking. I called the the foreman today and he said the plumbing stated yesterday which correlate with the picture @skalmilya posted which shows the plumbing van.

Hopefully they will finish the plumbing work soon. He told me to call him in two weeks time. As usual.

He said just to check back to see how far with the plumbing. So I will call him again in two weeks time.

@RichRooskey Good to hear that you are settled with buying another house. I understand that the waiting is very frustrating and discouraging. We are Just still hanging there hoping it will be ready one day.

Please May I ask if you heard anything regarding the completion of clonroosk abbey.

Latest update today from builder - mid-May completion.

Foreman on site..

Thank you @mariam123_ for the update.

Anybody have any update as the end date is approaching?

I've not heard anything for last 3 weeks.

Welcome on board@ Mike. The site manager Keep saying two weeks. I hope his 2 weeks will be a reality soon. Very frustrating situation. But we will keep our head in until we get the keys.

Welcome @Mike1999 in this discussion.

Hi @mariam123_ this is not really good news. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I had a chat with my solicitor and the builder solicitor said they are planning to do snagging before June 2023, waiting for electricity connection (not sure how much of this is true).

Welcome @Mike1999

I've been hearing the house will be ready to snag in two weeks time since 13/01/2023!!

Let's just wait and see and hope for the best 🙏

It's all we can do Mike!!

Ya think they would throw in some floors or appliances at this stage, a bit of compensation for our patience *Wishful thinking* 😁 😂😂🙏🙏

That sounds good and positive. Cos, the private units seems to be fully ready for snagging. Everything has been fitted as at the last time we spoke with the site manager.

Let us look forward to it.

Hi everyone,

Just want to let you know that we got a letter saying the completion date, but we got it in the post, not from our solicitor.

We'll be doing snagging next week. I really hope everyone was informed with updates.

We got ours in the post today too. Guess the wait is finally over :-) Onwards and upwards :-)

Hello all.

We went to snag the property on Monday (yesterday) and to our surprise (or not) it wasn't ready for snagging, paint wasn't finished, no cleaning done.. Very disappointing experience..

Anyone else went for snagging? Do you have any news on anything?

Thank you.

They let us snag it, but it seemed they were not aware we were coming, although we scheduled this with head office.

For starters, the central heating was not working at all, knobs at wardrobes were missing, we found some cut floor, some windows could not be closed, chipped wood and cracked skirting in many place, there was a person still tiling the main bathroom, the garden was full of concrete and rocks, the whole house was not painted, it was just prepared to be painted, doors weren't closing. We couldn't even close the front door, it just didn't want to stay shut. Amongst many other things.