Recently finished build. So we got our final BER assessment and received an A2 rating including cert. However in the BER report it days our roof insulation has failed conformance on one of the Building Fabic U-Values (Roof)? Has anyone had this and was there any issues with green mortgages etc? If i have the cert is that all they look for?
Building a 2 story 2 bed house.
Am I correct in thinking that I do not need a fire door by law going from kitchen to hallway with stairs?
Would appreciate any advice or links to the regulations on this.
The builder says "be grand"
Hi all,
I was wondering if there is anywhere to find the general rules that have to be adhered to when building a new home in a rural area.
My parents have a large plot of land that their home is built on and we are looking into if it is possible to section off around 0.75 acres in between my parents house and the neighbours house and see if I could get planning to build a small home there.
A quick search online seems to show I need a certain size for a septic tank but outside of that I can't find much.
Any guidelines on distance required between the new house and the neighbouring houses, or the road frontage needed would be awesome.
TIA :)
Hello, we are in the process of getting a mortgage with ptsb for a self build. I think we will need to look elsewhere as ptsb will only allow us to borrow the 100% construction costs which they have as 1850 per sq m (205 sq m so €380,000) and I don't think that will be enough for us, 4 times are salary is an extra 40k we would miss out on. We've been told by builders it's 180-190 per sq ft (ours is 2, 200 sq ft x190 = €418,000) so I don't know how ptsb think we can build it for less.
If anyone can recommend other suggestions or is ptsb are great for mortgages maybe we should continue with them. Also curious on the impact of pstb being recently sold if anyone has any advice.
Thanks!