External Works

The garge is now at lath and felt stage and is looking well, we have had to get rid of the idea of having an upstairs though unfortunately. The windows and doors arrived last thursday, ended up going wth munster joinery 24 windows and 5 doors golden oak wood grain PVC windows and teak doors €15,000.
We had planned on going with the swedish aluclad windows an had paid the deposit, when the sent through a revised quotatio 120% greater than their orignal, so i had to cancel it! Place is looking well ow though, soffit and fascia is gone up too black colour house and garage cost €3,500

On going works

The inside of the house is ready for plastering and it has commenced up stairs with the hardwallto the master bedroom, paying the plasterer on a day rate so, ill let ye know how that turns out!
So far it is looking well, as it is still drying out, we are hoping to use oak doors and frames so i asked the hardware to supply some bad or damaged pine we are using these as the temporary frame, so it helps when it comes to fittig the expensive stuff later on!

Progress/Its been a while since my last post :)

Its almost two months now since i last posted here, things have been hectic, got an electrician on board the local lad €7,700 seems like a good price to me the other one was returned for €14,200! The house is first fixed for plumbing and electrics and we have all internal studs up, we have used foil back slabs in the entire house just to offer that extra bit of fire protection. Between the studs we have used 4" of rock wool; and between the rafters we have used 4" of king span there was a lot of itchy days for the lads fitting all of this!! On the ground floor we have used 6" of rock wool between the joists and the upper floor and all ceilings are slabbed now also, for a bit of extra insulation to the house we decided to buy the king span slab panels with 37.5mm of insulation on the back and we have fixed these to the internal side of all the external walls! They cost me €22 each and we are using about 80 of them! The electrician recommended a chaser for the walls did the whole house for €350, i had planned on doing this myself but he had all the right gear, definitely worthwhile paying for it, id have been a week at it with a con saw and would probably have had no lungs left! :)