Room to Improve (v2)

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.

Actually, I didn't see this view on the programme.

I quite like that and can see the planners argument now.

It slopes back to the main roof

It's not a court of law Francis. 😁

The porch comes out from the main wall at 90 degrees,(blue line) but the roofline doesn't seem to, (red line) indicating a slope.

Secondly, if you drop a line from the front point of the wall (green) and the back(yellow)

they are different lengths, indicating a slope.

As I say, there may be distortion but that is how it looks to me. If the line was straight it would be parallel to the porch line.

Re: Window, as stated by industry pro's here, changes like that can be made and retentions sought. Works much better for me as a rectangle.

That in fairness, is ugly.

If they got planning for that, I would be amazed.

I would bet the green and the yellow are equal distance, because that is how perspective works.

https://www.johnlovett.com/perspective-drawing

In any case, it is different to the drawing submitted for planning permission, which someone else posted yesterday evening.

So Dermot Bannon did not comply with planning permission for the front extension? I suppose he can apply for retention planning permission, says you.

The TV company was quite clever to wait until frost /snow to photo it, so it blends in to the ground and wall in the foreground more. And do not forget, from the front, you do not see the red-brick on the side of the extension, or the front door. See the initial bit of video on Room to Improve showing the outside. Vile as other poster on this thread called it.

Jaysus Francis, that is just bizarre.

What a fabulous conspiracy theorist you are, 😁😁

Not a conspiracy theorist. Just noting that you are looking at a photo taken by the TV company in the best possible conditions (snow/frost) from the best possible angle. So you think the front extension is OK.

About a dozen other posters on this thread before you, who saw the footage on the TV on Sunday night, took time out to saty that front extension is "Vile", that if they were a neighbour they would be "bulling" at how it turned out etc.

The photo shows the roof and window are a lot different to what Bannon submitted planning permission for, so do you think Bannon will have to apply for retention planning permission yet again? What if he is refused, like some people are?

Brannon has a direct line to 'de powers that be', so it will not be an issue.

The plans show the 'Box' going up the gutter, not 5 rows of tiles higher. I'll say nothing about the window difference.

I would say that's a bigger issue than the window, it makes the front of the house look completely different.

It looks like the plan had a gutter in line with, and matching the original house, and it would have looked worse if the parapet was built on the side only to avoid the overhang at the boundary. I don't understand why that parapet has to be so high.

Why do you care that what was built isnt the same as the planning permission? Will you go on this crusade on every single house in the country thats in the same boat?

Totally disagree to the comment on spending too much money, if you have the money and the house is in a perfect location then why not. You get the house u want. Everyone has different budgets and value systems.

Curious why they only ended up with a b3 ber rating.

I reckon it's it's the same person.

thats the part that i dont understand. 600K+ and its only b3 . surely upping that as high as posible would have made financial sense. they dont seem short of money . another 30k maybe could have got a2 .

I personally don't get it. I know the area well, absolutely nothing wrong with it but it's full on suburbia - thousands of replica houses in estates like Shanard, Shanowen, melting into Lorcan and Shantalla. They basically all merge. There's a row of shops here and there (chipper, newsagents) but nothing aesthetically pleasing anywhere. No village atmosphere. Just house upon house.

Like, I suspect, most people, I'd use the million or so to buy a nice house in Malahide, Howth, Sutton, Greystones, Dalkey etc. and start fresh. But - each to their own. Her money, her call. I'm in medicine myself, she'd be known as brilliant but slightly......tricky.

This house was recently sold around the corner. Internally it was also very dated.

To sell the old house, buy this one and redevelop it, would have yielded a vastly superior home in the same area.

I think they said the kid was 8, in a few years his days of playing on the green will have passed.

They mentioned it alright, might have been B2, just thought it odd with such a spend they couldn't get to A rating. They had a heat pump in the garden. I'd have assumed everything was insulated.. just checked it was b2

Many would think if you want a large "statement" extension, it would not look so out of place at the back of a building or anywhere other than the front of a house in a semi-d estate. But everyone is different: some people like large scale monuments in a graveyard for example, others do not.

I think we can agree that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it is a good job we are all different. I like many aspects of the inside and back of the houses he does, letting light in etc. Interesting to watch.