Room to Improve (v2)

Am I going nuts 800k is what this build cost 800k twice what the original house is worth, honestly can anyone justify that cost for what was given in return, absolutely mental money mental.

Yes but it wouldn't have the emotional connection.

The house also looked like it hadn't been touched in years. So just general upgrading would cost a pretty penny.

Have you the eircode by any chance?

I know but you need to be practical about the emotional connection. The new building bears zero resemblance to their old home anyway.

If they bought a house in similar condition requiring upgrading but on a corner site the options and ultimately their levels of comfort and luxury would be so much better.

Its big money but its literally why "location, location, location" is so important.

They know what they are getting, and essentially the full "service history" of the house.

They loved the location, for practical purposes, there's a massive "useable" green area in the middle of the eestate (these are damn near impossible to find in newer and evey older estates) - they had plenty family links and I suppose most importantly for them - they could afford it.

You think this woman lied on national television about her mother so Dermot wouldnt use the space for something else?

I dont think they said the mother was in bad health. Her father is and when he dies, her mother may want to live with them. Nothing got to do with health on the mothers side, but perhaps loneliness or peace of mind. Maybe the mother suffers from depression and she is worried about her being on her own. This way she would live with one of her daughters and be beside the other.

I get that the regular posters in here like to think of themselves as experts in building, architecture and planning when they probably couldnt build a Lego set but I think a post like that is in very poor taste tbh

I'm assuming one-off changes to the streetscape like this would be granted on some kind of "enhances the architectural integrity of the street yada yada" type of basis/clause.

I wouldn't be as hopeful for your car port getting permission unless you had half a million and a top architects firm behind you.

Oh yeah maybe that was it.

I thought the front looked terrible. But from memory their 2 houses weren’t the same as the ones beside them and also Dermot mentioned bringing the extension out to the same level as the neighbour’s place so they might be two reasons planning was granted for it?

Thanks @spockety, all I could see was a box attached to the side of the house!

Not very. We had a scene where the house was gutted, lots of decisions were not being made and the builder was complaining that he had an impossible amount of work to do in 7 weeks. A minute later Dermot was walking up the street to the finished house. Something happened that meant they decided to cut possibly the most interesting part of the build.