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Room to Improve (v2)

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Where you wouldn't have problems with fire lobbies, and you wouldn't have people with respiratory difficulties traipsing up four flights of stairs to a second floor apartment!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,096 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I'm 100% with Dermot on the kitchens here....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Deeec


    I feel sorry for the interior designer. He won't listen to her at all. Her face is saying she is not impressed with him and she's right. He should let her do her job and he should look after structure and layout design



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,096 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Ithink this is for the families of patients who are in hospital.

    Didthey say if this building is listed?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,788 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    15min left on the show and its only at 1st fix stage. after the break it will be all finished



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Where did this interior designer come out of? It's a recipe for disaster especially as they don't seem to be on the same page.

    I agreed with Dermot on the kitchens.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Jeff2


    They are using hammer and chisel to remove soft mortar from a wall where I'd have the lot off in minutes using a shuvel.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    Isn't it weird there is never a male QS on the show.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    They made a point of saying how important it was to have the whole family together, with separate bathrooms to avoid cross contamination issues.

    They describe it as a respite facility, not as family accommodation.

    So the people with CF will be spending some time there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭lordleitrim


    Genuine question. Is Julian Benson's raspy voice the result of his cystic fibrosis condition or something else? Never heard a voice like it before.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,195 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    great project



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Can't really find anything to complain about in this episode. Although it felt a bit rushed and skipped over lots.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Charities always seem to be run by people who have never budgeted in their lives and are very flathulach spending other people's money.

    An old fashioned housewife that can make a pound stretch is what you need!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 362 ✭✭Rmgblue


    Great and all as it is and it is! But it was awful boring to watch



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,096 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    That was some list of suppliers at the end!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Deeec


    Did they mention that the charities office is also going to be in the house?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Looks lovely but seriously all those light coloured soft furnishings will be wrecked within 6 months.

    I would have thought something easily wiped down between families would be more practical



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 615 ✭✭✭derb12


    I enjoyed that. Could have been a longer special, maybe with a clearer timeline.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,191 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    We did up and old house not far from there. Had no issues with fire regs in the old lath and plaster walls and ceilings.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,096 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    They could easily have made 2 episodes out of it.

    Lovely feelgood vibe to it.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭lmk123


    unbelievable thing to do, a lot of unfortunate families will benefit from this for years to come



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,075 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    Is this charity a slush fund?

    This house is an outrageous use of raised funds. To my mind anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,191 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Saw a couple of lads I know very well giving time and materials to that. One was very prominent.

    Fair play to them. I've a cousin in her 30's with CF. She lives a very normal life and is on a very futuristic cocktail of drugs (she's in Northern Ireland) that allow her to live well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭lmk123


    I’m sure the poor families that will use it will think the same



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭StevenToast


    The guts of over 3 million was put into that vanity project....

    Surely more suitable accommodation could have been acquired for that amount...

    "SUBSCRIBE TO BOARDS YOU TIGHT CÙNT".....Plato 400 B.C



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭riddles


    this is the world of NGO Quangos once there’s a CEO CFO the rest takes care of itself



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,788 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    yes but was it divided up into 4 indevidual units. regs are diferent for one dwelling v seperate units. hence the little porches



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,218 ✭✭✭Deeec


    I liked tonight's episode. The flats looked comfortable and I'm sure it will be a valuable service for families.

    I always feel a little bit sad though when a beautiful old house like tonights house is broken up into flats or offices. We lose history and ruin these houses forever. Tonight's house would have made a beautiful family home.

    However I'm glad though it will be put to good use



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 33,096 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Having grown up in a similar sort of house in that broad area (also partly divided up into flats), I can assure you that they make for wildly impractical family homes!! And also very expensive to renovate from practically derelict to modern comfort standards. It's a small footprint, with rooms spread over 4 floors, not a lot of families these days want to live with that many stairs!

    They were built in the time of Upstairs Downstairs (for anyone old enough to remember!), and servants to do all the running.

    I think they did a great job renovating and preserving all the beautiful features of the house (and there were a lot of them!) - I wouldn't like to think of what that would have cost if you were a private client paying going rates.

    4 apartments is a great result, and the bones of the house are still there if anyone mad enough to want to restore it to one unit ever comes along!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭balanced24


    I think some rain from storm hermonia got in my eye



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