it was that exact house!!!
Linked case
i remember there being some court case about some of those houses recently enough too.
let me see if i can find it
I was thinking a grow house too! But even grow house folk would be tidier!!!
What is with the steps up the side at back of the house? To get up to the "roof terrace"
or for looking in the neighbours sky lights???
What are you talking about that's how my late good mate Jimmy O'Sparks always used to wire houses. His motto was brown to brown, earth to earth, blue to bits.
Jesus I'd hate to live next door to that! That's a fire waiting to happen.....I wouldn't trust the dividing wall to be a firewall either!
Yet there are normal looking sockets in the wall etc. These maybe someone's DIY nightclub wiring (disco ball and lights on the extension roof) or it was used as a grow house?
Pic 12 shows the wires coming in from outside? The whole set up is illegal so I doubt you'd get a mortgage for it.
It needs to be gutted and would likely end up costing more than it would be worth.
I'd say you are right, what would possess you to pull out all of the wires like that if you didn't know what you were doing?
My god what is all the wires about. It looks like the someone done a diy job at wiring the house - no way an electrician done that mess
Holy f*!!!
Is that house actually for real???
May need a rewiring 👀 This looks like a death trap to me, it's giving me the heebie jeebies. I was wondering why it was such a cheap reserve price in Lucan village with a river view
no radiators , ber c3 , i see 3 or 4 chimneys on the building . Heatpumps are coming in , that'll help . Nice enough house . not my style . too grand for me
I’d probably replace them with ivory ones, depending on how the budget looks after building the pool 😂
Flat roof throughout, insurance companies hate them. A small leak in an unoccupied/maintained house results in big costs.
Looks like no roof in pic 9. Floor looks like a Weetabix.
"The property is arranged over ground and one upper floor beneath a pitched roof."
Looks like a flat roof in the pictures.
Went back for a look they also have metal sockets and switches that cost more than the standard plastic ones.
A swimming pool and 4 car garage would the first things I’d have to add to it. It looks to be finished to a very good standard inside and out. Built in furniture, quality bathrooms etc. Great size site too.
Compared to the million euro McMansion beside the Waterford by-pass that is regularly posted here, (cheap windows, poor layout, acres of tarmac) these two houses are like chalk and cheese.
Presume some of these big places coming up the last year or so are as a result of Ulster Bank leaving? UB probably had them in life support since 08 but the new funds that have bought the bad loans want shot of them quick to make a return on their investment.
It looked a lot happier in 2009!
695k won't buy that, that's a Bidx1 guide price, will probably go for near a million
Surprising there's not a few caravans parked around there.
Bid X1?....
....I'll pass.
Not a great find. Saw this place, needs a lot of work and they seem to have increased the size of the wall since 2009, some rooms seem semi refurbished.
I think it's just off it.
This is what it looked like before hand.
Some significant damp problems in a couple of rooms, probably the whole flat roof needs attention. I didn't look at all of it, depending on repairs it looks like an interesting place.
I like that a lot. Not necessarily my style, but serious potential.
I hadn't seen it before either - I was expecting it to be in much worse condition. Definately there are areas that need maintenance, but planty of spaces are very liveable. C3 rating, but still it would be a small fortune to keep warm simply by the sheer volume to heat.
I don't know if this house was mentioned on this thread. I saw an article about it: Here's What €695k Can Buy You Just Outside Limerick City (evoke.ie)
"Derrybeg House is a six-bedroom detatched property that needs a little bit of TLC, but the potential holds no limits."
I suspect there is something more than just a bit of TLC. It is on bidx1 so I imagine there is an issue with it.
Last year there was a woman thatching a house in Claregalway by herself which I thought was odd. Turns out I seen a article on Facebook on her by coincidence around the same time as I seen her do the roof. Turns out she is a foreign woman who came to Ireland and lived with two old men who were thatchers and she learned the trade off them.
Not necessarily. see my post just before yours.
I don't think you could thatch that for 20k, Or maybe you could, using your own oat straw and a local lad who learnt it from You Tube.
Its not so much the cost, though of course that is significant, my slates will be there as long as the house is standing, but the hassle of organising someone to come and do it. If builders are anything to go by you could be trying to organise it for a couple of years, and I would guess thatching is worse.
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