Room to Improve (v2)

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118705962#Comment_118705962

I have to agree, show has gone ridiculous. Like if you watch UK ones it all about house, suppliers go through all steps but for some reason we fluff it up with crap that no one I'd interested in.

Also used to be mainly about improving one room for maybe 40-50k, needs to go back to that format.

appledrop

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118706104#Comment_118706104

Do you remember when QS was a vital part of show? That's no longer case anymore and it's a shame.

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118706130#Comment_118706130

I did like the window but overall it's not a good functional kitchen for a family with 4 kids. No island to bake or do crafts on. She'll have it full of crap in no time. The house was ok but doesn't meet the needs of a family of 6 - there didn't seem to be much space at all. Take away the decor and the light and all they got is rooms similar to what they had before.

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118705937#Comment_118705937

guess what it’s a reality tv show. It actually happened. There a shed load of money in the economy. There’s lots of people on good salary’s.

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118705986#Comment_118705986

msny people take redundancy on Friday and start a new job on Monday

Dakota Dan

Anyone else think that Dermot Bannon looks like Mr Spock?

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118706241#Comment_118706241

No sign of a change of employer over the duration of the build.

Sandz066

The bit with the house from Dalkey was ridiculous, totally different type of house, structure, surroundings etc.

Clearly just slotted into the episode for the sake of it

Pussyhands

The show has definitely moved on from your regular renovation type to very wealthy people splashing their cash. The average costs must be around 300k nowadays.

PARlance

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118706310#Comment_118706310

Fairly sure (s)he said he was made redundant around the time they originally bought the house Columbo.

GAAcailin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118706153#Comment_118706153

When the QS Patricia was part of the show, the QS featured much more, her character and personality were very much part of the format; the replacement QS (Lisa I think her name was) didn't go down as well and since that they seem to have removed the 'personality' and airtime of the QS. There was no way an hour of 'content' in that program, all filler stuff that had nothing to do with the renovation/rebuild of their home. Very poor stuff

Princess Calla

I think people are confusing redundancy with voluntary redundancy.

The fact he walked away with 100K would signify this was voluntary redundancy. Voluntary redundancy can take up to 6 months to implement. It will usually start with company announcement, outlining the conditions when expected finishing date is etc. Then followed by applications, followed by management/senior management review. Then notification you've been accepted. Plenty of time to get a CV ready, put feelers out to friends in other companies etc. So the majority of people taking VR will have another job lined up and a nice little going away present.

Completely different to forced redundancy where you arrive to work on Monday to locked gates. No warning , nothing lined up and a couple of weeks pay for each year of service if you are lucky.

Princess Calla

The house was lovely but for a million spend I'd want something bigger. If the house went to market today I doubt they'd get a million for it.

They had a massive garage Ikea is literally down the road so I really can't understand why the guest toilet was being used for storage, especially considering the two other toilets don't work properly. The garage could easily have been organized alot better.

I liked the kitchen presses but I would have liked to see them opened....even if they showed them at the installation stage.

Again the finished result was a quick glimpse into each room. Less time in the G hotel and more time on finished product would be welcome.

the_pen_turner

the under stairs toilet still anoys me. we cannot find out toilet in there then shows a room with crap dumped in it and you can see half the toilet clearly.

a visit from one of the hoarders programmes would have been better. i cannot see how they needed all that stuff in the garage

it is still a 4 bed house for 6 of them.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118707601#Comment_118707601

they very much would get the million for it

Sunny Dayz

She didn't seem to be too worried about money - and wanting to spend on her champagne tastes with a lemonade budget. Seemed to be about what SHE wanted, decorated like the G Hotel, big open window in the kitchen for entertaining - nothing mentioned about anything for the kids at all.

Felt like the program didn't show much of the build at all. No mention of this big kitchen window until it was in, anything about kitchen appliances, layout, bathrooms etc. What happened the garage?

They are very lucky they've been in a position to buy and do up a house in a more affluent part of Dublin where they grew up.

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118707969#Comment_118707969

It didnt make sense to have that toilet full of clutter given that they had young kids. If thats how they lived before they will have the house back full of clutter in no time.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708050#Comment_118708050

lol at lemonade budget

they easily touched the 1m in spending on that house

Deeec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708050#Comment_118708050

Agree with you. She got a brilliant window but a crap kitchen that is like an alleyway - very little actual work space and not practical for family life. For someone that wanted to entertain its a very small space. She will have to put people sitting outside at the big window!

the_pen_turner

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708058#Comment_118708058

if you were that tight on space why would you not put the clutter in the toilet upstairs that doent work and use the one that does work.

i would be embarrassed to go on tv and tell the nation that i have a toilet that i couldnt be bothered to fix

Sunny Dayz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708080#Comment_118708080

Yeah I'm a little puzzled about the kitchen. Will people [kids] be walking [running[ in and out through the kitchen to get to the living area or outside to the garden? What about all the press doors, do they open out or do the slide in somewhere that they can be left open but not cause an obstruction? Over and back from presses to kitchen "island" and kids running in and out the place.

Sunny Dayz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708065#Comment_118708065

They started the program by saying their budget was €275k with little to no contingency. And a number of times the budget being referred to and serious face on the QS. And then they are off looking at furnishings in the G Hotel and a house in Dalkey!

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708045#Comment_118708045

A quick look on myhome and you can get a 3 bed 1 bath for 675. A three bed 3 bath for 750 and a 5 bed 5 bath for 750.

There's nothing really special about that house. I probably wouldn't have paid the initial 600k for it to begin with.

For starters young family and all those steps up to front door. There does seem to be a door beside the garage door but no idea where that leads to.

You are very much on top of your neighbours, that's a given in suburbia but the neighbours attic windows look direct into your property. Usually you'd have the width of a road or backgarden between windows.

There's also no further scope for expanding.

So no I definitely don't think it's worth a million.

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708050#Comment_118708050

She reminded me of the "Jacuzzi wan" from a few seasons ago.

Especially when she rocked into the G hotel looking like a Christmas bauble.

Very much "all about me" and we absolutely didn't need to know where the 4th child was conceived.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708519#Comment_118708519

What you value it at is a bit irrelevant. Property around Howth, Sutton, Portmarnock, Malahide is highly inflated currently and any decent property is routinely going for six figures over already high asking prices.

A four bed family home in Howth with such a high standard finish would quite easily reach a million.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708160#Comment_118708160

yeah the by now exceptionally tedious dance around budgets on RTI... same story every week. Really eyerollingly boring.

Pussyhands

Irish people really do have a horn for all things property.

Look at the self build renovations group on facebook and it's just full of people showing off living in a fantasy world. Vast majority of them aren't even self builds, they're just companies hired to do the work and then a picture posted at the end to show everyone else what they have. You can be sure anyone within a year of doing some kind of work on their house is glued to RTI.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708537#Comment_118708537

lol that was a bit grim

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708777#Comment_118708777

I was born and raised in the area. There's much better value out there in the areas you've mentioned. A million spend in a housing estate with very little outdoor space especially when you've 4 young children. To me isn't good value.

However if you think it's good value that's your perogative.

lawred2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118708937#Comment_118708937

Didn't say that did I? I live in the area myself. I don't think housing offers anything remotely near "value" around here... but my feelings on the matter aren't relevant.

Sure we put in an asking price bid on a modest 4 bed recently in Sutton... At last check it's 160k over asking and it wasn't a giveaway to start with. We had long bowed out at that stage.