okay in this video i want to take a look at the question of building a house in ireland
i've seen quite a few inquiries on youtube and other places as well about building
a house in ireland and obviously i get queries down and questions from people
myself on youtube and facebook and instagram and so on when it comes to building a house there is
two ways you can go one is to build yourself with direct labor and the various trades now
i've done that i built apartments in Edgeworthstown at longford and it's a difficult time-consuming
activity which requires a fair degree of expertise the areas though that you need to be concerned
about or the biggest issues you're going to come across remember the book stops with you so let's
assume as i had you have a site so you have a site and you have planned information firstly
the plan information is absolutely key after the planning permission then you need to organize
all the trades you need to organize all the trades in the correct order and then you need
to organize all of the materials and you need to have the materials coming at the right time
you need to have the right materials at the right time and the right trades at the right time
so it's a tricky enough project management situation it is a logistical operation
it requires a fair degree of management and a fair degree of experience because
costs can quickly get out of control if you fail to manage it properly but the biggest issue is
the buck will stop with you you'll be organizing the trades you'll be organizing the labor you'll
be organizing all of the materials you'll be organizing the roof you'll be organizing the
supplies and just to break it down down into the various sections with where you build or
building from scratch you're looking at stage one will be the foundations or substructure
so some structure would essentially be the floor uh be the foundations be the footings and so on
and your concrete floor the second stage then would be block work up to wall plate level
so the block work you're going to get that carried out you have to have
obviously sufficient cement blocks block layers and so on who will take the block work up to oil
plate level wall plate then is if you consider for example a bungalow or a dormer bungalow wall plate
is the top of the block work and there's a wall plate a wooden plate that goes around on the top
of the block work on which the roof will sit and be fixed and that's the wall plate level
the next stage then will be the roof the roof is a huge job in the particular projects that i
carried out in longford we bought the roofs from a company directly and were delivered by
a massive big loader a big flatbed truck etc and a trailer and we had to organize a crane then for a
particular day so even the organizing of a crane and getting the roof lifted into place and so on
is tricky enough proposition a tricky enough job always though at the outset you must be
very very conscious of planning permission and the supervision of the project uh
by an architect now when i say supervision if you're building yourself as i was the book stops
with you and you'll be supervising us however at various stages you will have an architect
a so-called supervising architect coming out to certify at various stages so he or she may
certify after the they've inspected the pouring of the floor they may even be present for that they
may inspect again after the block work or after the roof has been put on but they will have the
issue of certificates at various stages to satisfy themselves that they can stand over and finally
issue a certificate of compliance with building regulations and planning information at the end
that's absolutely key and the saying that they advise that asl is true but today your bill is the
day you sell as well because you must ensure that you do it properly you must do it in accordance
with the planning laws and the billing regulations and that's why you're supervising architect his or
her inspection at various stages and signing off will be absolutely vital and then there's
a question obviously of providing the likes of a home bond or premier guarantee at the end of
it if you're a small one-off builder or whatever like i was getting into one of those schemes can
be difficult enough we got into premiere but not homebound that's another day's work so roof then
would be sort of this third stage then you've got the first fix force fix would involve the likes of
stud partitions the cables uh for the electrics pipes for the plumbing floating floors staircases
windows window boards exterior doors internal door linings force fixed plumbing force fix electrical
underfloor heating if you're getting that then the next stage would be plastering plastering
internal skimming and so on then you're looking at second fix second fix would be skirting boards
internal doors light switches plug sockets plumbing appliances uh kitchen and so on and
then the final stage is completion and sign off by your architecture engineer it's a big logistical
effort it's a big logistical job and whether you're doing eight apartments in a block like i
did or whether you're doing a one-off house in the country or whatever it is a tricky enough task and
it can go wrong obviously i mean everything can go wrong i suppose but it can be tricky and you
need to be careful so that's one way of building a house you build it yourself you use the trades
you manage to trade you manage the project you engage the trades yourself you supervise them
you schedule them in proper time and you schedule all the materials and so on
second way to go is a simpler way an easier way and that's where you get a site you'll
have planning permission and then you'll put the building of the house out to a building contractor
the building contractor then will enter into a contract with you and he will be responsible
for the building uh the property building the house not a specific price and now the contract
then is important obviously because you want to ensure that you're protected in the eventuality
of budget overruns cost overruns materials prices rising and so on so the likes of the
various phrases are various provisions in the contract deal with that is important
standard enough building agreement would do building contract
but that is a slightly less stressful situation than building yourself because
you're simply entering into a contract with a building contractor who will build your one-off
house for a specific price and the third situation or scenario you might look at would be a sort of a
fixer-up job just generation sorry to the second one so the first one i did the apartments in
longford the second one then i engaged the builder to build a house in belt harbor and
cavan for me near Aghalane bridge and the third situation the third scenario then is one where
it's a fixer-up situation about an old cottage black stone cottage story and a half or whatever
very much of his time between Kinnegad and Edenderry on that road and dealership myself
and the likes of that sort of a project sort of a fixer-up situation that can be a serious
money piss it can go well but you really need to know what you're doing and you really need
to know at the outset the extent of the work that you need to carry out so you might look at a very
very quaint property quaint cottage a nice black stone etc etc but when you go to developers and
turn it around to the point where you're able to sell it and sell it to the profit then you
could be looking at drilling or boring for a new well you could be looking at a new septic tank or
enviro cycle or envirocare a sewerage treatment plant and so on in other words the services could
be very rudimentary you have to put them in and you're looking at a plan information and b
significant expense then obviously if you have a story and a half of a cottage stolen cottage
or whatever and you're going to carry out work on it the likelihood is you're going to need planning
permission so that's another thing you need to consider those types of fixer-upper situations
can be alright but can be money pits and you really need to know the outset the extent of the
work that you're going to need to carry out and you need to be able to cost us and cost it with
uh realism and and effectively so that's uh sort of an overview of building a house in
ireland and building a house obviously the easiest way you know starting with a fresh
fresh slate as is where a clean slate is not the fixer-up route but with a site
and obviously then you're either going to manage to thing yourself which is difficult
and you need experience or you're going to engage the services of a building contractor and you'll
have a supervising architect or engineer who will check the thing from time to time and issue
the certificates check that the planning is being adhered to and check that the billing regulations
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