Rahillion, Donabate - New build

Sujesha wrote: »

Hi rcallagh, my husband and I are waiting for the snagging to happen as well. I called Gordon today and he gave an estimate of mid october. It’s somehow getting dragged on which is rather frustrating.

Oh God, seriously?!! Is that for the Park or Place...what could the latest delay be?
Its so frustrating and hard to plan for any real timeline without a date.

Tk89 wrote: »

We were told snagging for our house in the Park would be mid to late September only 3 weeks ago. It would be very frustrating if dates fall further behind considering all the delays to date...

As of today , Gordon told us that snagging at the park would only take place mid October.

Hi all, recently moved into the Crescent, would definitely say that it’s well worth the wait, well finished houses and the builders have been great to deal with. Best of luck to everyone waiting to move in!

Lyncher101 wrote: »

Has anyone received contracts for northern part of Rahillion Drive?

Thanks

Our Solicitors received contracts for Rahillion Drive on Tuesday.

Hi guys, for anybody who has already moved in (particularly the 4 bed houses) were the following included in the house:
Attic ladder and/or light in attic space, under-counter lights in kitchen presses, lights in the glass fronted kitchen presses? If you could post here or PM that would be great! Thanks

hey we moved into the crescent last week, had sky organized and all to come over, they came over and the engineer said they couldn't install it.

Said it could be months or years before fiber was installed by eir which sky use. Rang Sky and they were like, ahh no it will be there soon. So we changed contract and got virgin in who has someone around in 2 days to install, all perfect since then.

jester1980 wrote:

hey we moved into the crescent last week, had sky organized and all to come over, they came over and the engineer said they couldn't install it.

denisstack wrote:

You're right, the lights aren't included. We snagged today ourselves.

Are you in Rahillion Park or Place mate. Cheers

denisstack wrote:

Rahillion Park. No ESB yet so we worked off a generator and they were still finishing up a few bits outside but we snagged anyway.

We're snagging next week. Hopefully goes ok, all good your side. How was the finish in general?

dcresham wrote: »

We're snagging next week. Hopefully goes ok, all good your side. How was the finish in general?

We were fairly happy too. As might be expected, plenty cosmetic issues. A few slightly more significant things but I'm sure they'll sort them all out. All fixable, no major / worrying issues. Hopefully the ESB get the job done reasonably quickly now.

stiofan85 wrote: »

What are the timelines for deposit - sign contracts - snagging - keys? Is that the right order? We only put down a holding deposit back in August for the latest phase and will have to sell our current house, but that's a long way away by the sounds of things. Trying to get a feel for the timelines and ensure I've everything lined up in good time.

Thanks!

That's the right order and you can probably do the first two relatively quickly. Ours were a few weeks apart as they already had planning permission granted for our house. The rest is hard to say - just depends on how long they take to finish the house. There are a lot of future houses that only got through planning fairly recently (probably a few months ago) - this might be the "latest phase" you're talking about, in which case I'd expect a fairly long wait. I wouldn't pay attention to what an estate agent will tell you anyway. For example, when we move into ours it'll probably be 5 - 6 months after what the estate agent claimed, which isn't at all surprising.

Born78 wrote: »

Hi all,
we purchased in Rahillion Drive (Phase 3) and construction works are about to start.
Can someone tell us if the builder was available to agree to little modifications: for example adding extra sockets, changing kitchen shelves colours and so on.
Btw, we will paying any extra cost.
Thanks in advance for any help

Hi Born78
We are also in the phase 3. We went to the kitchen people directly to make changes to our kitchen, they sent us a quote for the agreed changes and we pay directly to them. It’s installed by CKB design co Meath.
I don’t know about extra sockets but would like to know about his too. Hope to put high speed car charging socket out the front of the house.

denisstack wrote:

We were fairly happy too. As might be expected, plenty cosmetic issues. A few slightly more significant things but I'm sure they'll sort them all out. All fixable, no major / worrying issues. Hopefully the ESB get the job done reasonably quickly now.

Snagged too on Friday. Finish was decent and no major issues. Plenty of questions for us though. For anyone who's moved in were your downstairs floors polished?

dcresham wrote: »

Snagged too on Friday. Finish was decent and no major issues. Plenty of questions for us though. For anyone who's moved in were your downstairs floors polished?

Hi

We are also signing for Phase 3 shortly - quick question - when you say downstairs floors being polished - do we order the floors through Ballisk and pay them also and will the finished product be fully floored before we move in so? That'd be a gift!

Thanks

Hi Jester

Thanks for that. I was just wondering if there's an option to have them ordered through and installed by Ballisk and paying for all of this separately. It would just make life easier having all of this in place before the removals company drop everything out to the house.

Thanks again.

jester1980 wrote:

Myself and another girl on here used a carpenter from donabate who now runs a flooring company, he was very very good and 25% cheaper than everyone else, he dopes all the flooring himself, we got the keys on a Friday I think and he had our floors started the Monday after and finished on the tues, Pm if you need details but no harm asking Ballisk but I highly doubt it.

Lyncher101 wrote:

Thanks for that. I was just wondering if there's an option to have them ordered through and installed by Ballisk and paying for all of this separately. It would just make life easier having all of this in place before the removals company drop everything out to the house.

Ballisk won't do any of that for you I fear.