Design: Kitchen and Bathroom Design
Kitchen and bathroom design – Self-build advisor John Corless chats through the dos and don’ts of designing the most used rooms of the house. Favourite More
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Design: working out your house plans
Working out your house plans – Self-build advisor John Corless runs through the basic principles of proportion and making internal spaces work. Favourite More
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in Choosing external finishes, Design, Roofing & External finishes: Watchpoints, SB+ Podcasts, Securing planning permissionEp 20 – Guide to stone cladding
Episode 20: Building your home with stone usually means building a cavity wall with the external leaf solid stone. This method tends to have costly knock on effects on the foundations, window detailing and structural supports such as lintels. An alternative is to use stone cladding, or slices of stone stuck to blockwork with an […] More
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Ep 8 – How to get planning permission in Ireland
Episode 8: Planning permission is the first stumbling block to building or extending your home. This episode Patrick O’Reilly, Managing Director of niplanningpermission.co.uk and irelandplanning.ie, gives us the low down on how the planning process works in NI and ROI and how to increase your chances with your local authority. We also discuss which projects […] More
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Ep 6 – NZEB: New building regulations’ impact on your self-build
Episode 6: The building regulations for ventilation (part F) and energy efficiency (Part L) are coming into force on the 1st November 2019 in the Republic of Ireland; we chat with Mark Shirley of 2eva.ie to find out what it all means for your self-build in terms of heating systems, ventilation strategies, major renovations and […] More
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Ep 5 – County Tipp’s Dan and Jessica Tynan on going direct labour with their self-build
Episode 5: Dan and Jessica hired every tradesman and did a lot of the work themselves, from tidying up the site every evening to laying floors. We chat about what it takes to design the house of your dreams, how to get it built and keep a positive outlook. Check them out on Instagram @seaunahouse […] More
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Ep 4 – Getting paid for exported electricity
Episode 4: The Climate Action Plan launched in June 2019 promised that homeowners in ROI would be able to sell electricity from their PV panels back to the grid by 2021. Brian Denvir of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland explains what kind of feed in tariffs are available in Europe and sheds some light […] More
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in Design, Energy Efficiency, Airtightness & The Environment, Heat emitters, Heating systems, Pre design, SB+ PodcastsEp 3 – Heating systems: what’s the best option for a self-build in Ireland?
Episode 3: We have a chat with Belfast-based energy advisor Patrick Waterfield about how you will generate heat and hot water in the home. Some of the main points we cover are: Boilers vs heat pumps Underfloor heating vs radiators Fabric first approach How the building regulations affect system choice The situation in NI ROI […] More
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in Advice, Cost savers, Cost Series, Design, Extension/Renovation Advice, Interior Advice, Interiors, The design brief and getting the space rightStaircase costs
As a statement piece of furniture, the staircase can become one of the most expensive items to budget for, writes quantity surveyor Keith Kelliher. In many of the previous articles in this series, I have spoken about the way our grandparents built their homes to be as cost effective as possible. Back in the day, […] More
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in Advice, Choosing windows and doors, Cost savers, Cost Series, Design, Extension/Renovation Advice, Free Content, Interior Advice, InteriorsHow much will your windows and doors cost?
Whether you’re building new or renovating, you’ll need to determine early on how much your windows and doors will cost. Simply because they could drain the budget. What do we cover in this article? In the days when our grandparents were building their homes, they kept things simple and bar a few exceptions these methods […] More
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Home Stoves Explained
The modern solution to having a fire in the home without the massive heat loss of an open fire. Wood-burning and other fuelled home stoves have become very popular in our houses in recent years, as people realise the problems with open fires and the associated ventilation heat losses, even when not in use. Home […] More
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in Advice, Design, Heating systemsHeat pumps explained
Air source heat pumps are the most common in Ireland today. But ground source is well worth considering for your new build, even though it’s more expensive to install. In this article we cover: Why choose a heat pump? As the ROI government plans to ban oil and gas boilers from new builds, in 2022 […] More
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