My Bungalow Bliss

In a way it did because when they went digging down they found out the internal walls were not down to foundation level. Sorting out that problem was where the 70k went. They werent told of this potential cost at the start of the build, it was very much a surprise to them. As to why an engineer didnt do tests on the foundations to see what they were dealing with in advance of planning to install underfloor heating I dont know. To me it seemed like a huge cock up and the couple were the ones who ended up footing the bill for it.

It seems amazing to me that a couple could hire architects and ask for underfloor heating but the architect doesnt first ask himself is this actually possible without blowing the budget. Like the couple are hiring these professionals to prevent the very mistake that was made. But instead they get into the build and suddenly the architect is showing up to site telling them the plans that he made are going to cost them an extra 70k.

"My Bungalow Bliss" more like "My Bungalow Burden".

Both episodes seem to have had willing participants fleeced and left with very little bang for an awful lot of buck.

Yea they were a bit too trendy, those overly thick rimmed glasses on Hugh Wallace, de rigueur among the celebrity set now, and the female architect with her hair shaved on the sides, if I saw those two walking in through my door I would run a mile, they scream "loads o money"

The thing is the two architects on the project were around mid 40s meaning they likely studied architecture in college in the late 90s/early 2000s so after 20 odd years of practice you would have thought they had seen it all. Im not sure what they get taught in college but you would hope there is a module that covers the problems that can arise when renovating old buildings and how to avoid them if possible. If they had of called a halt to the underflooring heating idea on this plan they would have saved the clients 70k instead of lumping them with a huge bill.

If the owner let bees move in to his beard he would have made enough cash from the honey to bankroll the mortgage for an identical 2nd house next door.

hope the gutter people learnt a thing or two as they are coming to do the soffits and fascia on my bungalow in jan 😁

booked them months ago. unfortunately the job they are doing could expand (the Joy's of old houses)

they are based at the bottom of the road I live on !

Thats what cant stand about Hugh Wallace either. Instead of offering architectural advice he is sniggering at them as they get buried in hundreds of thousands of euro of debt.

The worst one was an episode of Great Irish Houses he did, it was an old Georgian house on the Phibsborough Road near McGowans pub. She paid 500k for the house and had a 200k budget with 8 month renovation schedule in the hope of moving in for Christmas. Everything that could go wrong on the build went wrong, it needed a new roof and new foundations and she didnt get in until almost two years after it started. Every few months Wallace would show up to site with the camera crew to snigger at her problems. In the final scene of course Wallace is asking her about the final cost (which was near 1 million) and the glee in his face was sickening. There is something perverse about getting off on other peoples misfortune but its even more galling that he is an architect who should be helping. He thinks he is making fantastic dramatic tv but the reality is he is just being a prize kunt.

Good question. I think when our man Wallace was on the radio, he said they typically were single story rectangular, front facing to the road, with large windows on that elevation. Narrow corridor in the middle with rooms off to each side. Oddly ours and next doors were gable on to the road. Planning condition.

Would the bungalow in episode two now be a hybrid. Doors opens into the sitting room, but there is still a central hallway?

I'm really excited to see how much money can be spent in the smallest amount of space tonight.

Is tonight the last episode in the series or are we just hitting Christmas scheduling next week?

Interesting about Hugh, how much he used to drink. Never gave it up, just found a way to cut back to a more reasonable amount.