Original Plans

bobalicious

Hi there,

My family are thinking of doing some cosmetic surgery to our home. I was chatting with a friend of mine who had done the same thing quite recently and he mentioned about using the plans of the house given to him when he bought his house.

The problem is, we don't have the plans for our house. Do you know where I would be able to get these? Would some government body have them on record or would I have to try tracking down the original builders?

I live in Knocklyon, Dublin 16, if that helps.

Thank you.

Retro-Fit

A good consultant will survey, rather than trust plans. Dont worry about it. Look at it as an energy or comfort upgrade rather than cosmetic surgery.

pseudo-tech

Retro-fit is correct in saying that a good consultant would personally survey the house. The survey will provide more information than the original drawing will. However, the existing drawings will help but should not be relied upon!

Poor Uncle Tom

bobalicious wrote: »

Hi there,

My family are thinking of doing some cosmetic surgery to our home. I was chatting with a friend of mine who had done the same thing quite recently and he mentioned about using the plans of the house given to him when he bought his house.

The problem is, we don't have the plans for our house. Do you know where I would be able to get these? Would some government body have them on record or would I have to try tracking down the original builders?

I live in Knocklyon, Dublin 16, if that helps.

Thank you.

There may be a set of plans in the offices of the LA, if so, you could buy a copy, or if the house isn't too old they may be on gplan. But I echo what the lads said about surveying the property afresh.

bobalicious

Thanks guys for the help, I suppose it would make a lot more sense for the architect to survey the property.

I still would like to have a copy of the original plans, even so I could play around with some ideas myself. What is gplan?

Poor Uncle Tom

Go to your LA's website, go into services or planning, you should see an option for gplan, put in what information you can, address, townland, reference number, etc., and any planning applications should become available for you to see and if it's a recent enough application you can see the maps, plans, etc. (gplan)

bobalicious

Silly question here, LA?

BoozyBabe

Local Authority, i.e. the council

alentejo

An Architect or a Surveying engineer would be able to do a full survey "as is" of the house to include site plans and drainage etc. i paid €1700 ex vat in 2008 to get a full site and house survey for a 3 bed semi.

Poor Uncle Tom

alentejo wrote: »

An Architect or a Surveying engineer would be able to do a full survey "as is" of the house to include site plans and drainage etc. i paid €1700 ex vat in 2008 to get a full site and house survey for a 3 bed semi.

Bit expensive, imo.

pseudo-tech

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Bit expensive, imo.

Depending on the quality of the survey!

sinnerboy

Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »

Bit expensive, imo.

par for the course round M50