Room to Improve (v2)

23-01-2025 07:45PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123088544#Comment_123088544

Why not put them into a nursing home as soon as they’re born? Would save us having to build all these family homes … they’re just death traps anyways.

23-01-2025 07:58PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123090317#Comment_123090317

There's generations of us that survived rolling round in the back seats of Ford Cortinas without any restraint or security. That doesn't mean that seat belts aren't good idea.

D n G · 23-01-2025 07:58PM

My sister and brother-in-law built a beautiful house a good few years ago. Same as this, steps from the kitchen to the dining room, and also steps into the sitting room. My wife and I rarely visit them now as my wife uses a powerchair and can't access their dining room except from outside through the patio doors, and has no access to the sittingroom.

So if she needs to go to the loo, when over for dinner, she has to go out the patio doors, around the outside of the house and then in the front door. Far too much hassle especially when the outside doors have a lip that the powerchair has a problem getting over.

My sister has said that they regret building the house that way and that they hadn't thought of the future. It really dawned on her when she broke her leg and had so much trouble getting around her own home. They are now thinking of selling the house and redoing an old family home, this time fully on the level.

23-01-2025 08:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123090956#Comment_123090956

I don’t mean this in a flippant way but would your sister not consider serving dinner in the kitchen? Even in the case that that would allow for fewer guests it would be a lot less stress than building a whole new house.

23-01-2025 09:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123091234#Comment_123091234

Tell me you've never been around someone in a power wheelchair without telling me that you've never been around someone in a power wheelchair.

event · 23-01-2025 10:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123089575#Comment_123089575

You have a serious grudge about RTI. Last year you spent weeks in a thread like this and other threads asking about a bannister for stairs and if it passed regulations.

Your obsession with Dermot and running down his work is incredibly odd

chalkitdown1 · 24-01-2025 09:30PM

The outrage over these steps is hilarious. I needed a good laugh.

*Someone who grew up in a 2 story house that also had 3 steps down to the backyard and never once fell down any stairs or steps.

HeidiHeidi · 25-01-2025 09:53AM

I'd be somewhere in the middle on the steps - I get why they were put in, it makes for a lovely and interesting room - but I'd think that putting a dining table with sharp corners right beside it with toddlers in the house might be just a bit foolhardy. That table might need padding for a few years. Not sure about the huge "step/mini wall" beside the steps either - I'd be putting some sort of rail on that myself.

*Someone who grew up in a 3-storey house with granite steps up to the front and back doors, and two flights of internal stairs - and who fell down every single one of them as a child, including splitting my head open on the back steps at the age of about 4!

Juran · 26-01-2025 01:36PM

Well done to Orla doing that project on her own. From a builders/designer point, I felt there was a lost oppurtunity not to increase roof height and prepare an upstaris (just insulation, wiring, plumbing, fooring) for an attic converstion later down the road. Bunglows from the 70's and 80's which dont have a high enough pitch to add rooms in the attic are such a waste of valuable space. Poor planning laws in Ireland .. again. I know it would cost money, but I,d spend it there rather than the mezziline for example.

Westernview · 26-01-2025 02:06PM

Wonder what tonight's main problem will be that people will go on about all week here?

Cost of build
Kitchen colour
Dermot not listening to client
Client unhappy but delighted at the end
Programme not doing more affordable projects for 'real people'
Grants that shouldn't or shouldn't apply to the build
Some item being a big problem (eg bathroom) that doesn't get mentioned at all at the end and we don't know what happened.

Did I miss anything?

Jim Herring · 26-01-2025 02:09PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123101061#Comment_123101061

You missed people moaning about the topics that get discussed on the thread. 🤔

mykrodot · 26-01-2025 02:35PM

I was without internet for a few days and just catching up now.

This thread has given me the best laugh all week, its hilarious! The projected scenarios that people come up with……. spilling tea, scalding kids, children being impaled, elderly people falling up and down the 2 steps, visiting kids ending up with fractured skulls, disabled people potentially visiting, poor Orla on medication for stress…….all over a few steps! We have all been young, we will all get old, we have faced and will face many of these issues in our lives. At the end of the day this is a TV programme and the contestants have a say on what they want for their house!

Orla came across during that programme as being extremely assertive and decisive over what she wanted and didn't want. She changed Dermot's mind on many things! So I am quite sure she had a say in whether the kitchen would be split level or not. Its her house, her choice, her life, her future.

batistuta9 · 26-01-2025 03:19PM

it's a nothing show really isn't it? like some feature you'd see in a newspaper supplement. doesn't really go into enough detail or information for a lot of people who'd be watching, if you were interested in the architectural, building upgrades, interior design aspects your not getting the whole picture.

maybe that's why it works though. it's watchable but you wouldn't care if you missed it

Juran · 26-01-2025 04:03PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123101308#Comment_123101308

Agree. I think even 1 minute extra to briefly say to the viewers, for example, that 'the heating system was a heat pump, 12 solar panels were fitted, underground heating system on the ground floor' ... and another 30 seconds at the end to give us a quick look at the finished bathrooms and utility room. Viewers dont need the full details, but I believe viewers want to know what systems were installed and what the rest of the rooms look like. They could steal a minute or two from the personal story bits. All other home renovation program we watch on the British channels show bathrooms & utility rooms. Why doesnt the Room to Improve production company ?

youcancallmeal · 26-01-2025 06:21PM

Is tonight the last episode of the season then next January for the next season? For better or worse it is an entertaining show

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 09:34PM

o god this lad is a total melt. total nightmare

Atlantic Dawn · 26-01-2025 09:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123101903#Comment_123101903

Yes last one.

Does anyone know if tonights show was first discussed as a project some years back, maybe pre-Covid, could swear I heard about it before or perhaps Julian had another house he also did.

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 09:38PM

at least he has good intentions doing this project

HeidiHeidi · 26-01-2025 09:38PM

Missed the beginning - did they say where this is?

Holy **** - 250K??? What planet is he living on??

HeidiHeidi · 26-01-2025 09:38PM

Patricia is back!!! 😍

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 09:39PM

this should be a partnership with that charity show that does up houses like diy sos

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 09:41PM

1.4 mill over budget. oh holy god.

26-01-2025 09:41PM

So a charity spent €1.25 million on that???

Half of it borrowed?

keano25 · 26-01-2025 09:42PM

Patricia is like a breath of fresh air.

HeidiHeidi · 26-01-2025 09:44PM

Iwas going to say - time for a large Go Fund Me!

HeidiHeidi · 26-01-2025 09:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123102700#Comment_123102700

Well it's pre-Tubridy's demise anyway!

derb12 · 26-01-2025 09:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123102700#Comment_123102700

looks like you’re spot on. I wonder was it pre-covid?

Jeff2 · 26-01-2025 09:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123102713#Comment_123102713

It looks to be 58 Grosvenor Rd, Rathmines, Dublin 6 but some call it Rathgar as the show did.

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 09:59PM

surely 1.5mill could buy something a bit more suitable for this kind situation . maybe 4 apartments so you dont have all these complications

the_pen_turner · 26-01-2025 10:05PM

how does lat and plaster ceilings comply with fire regs.

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