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I'm presuming it'll be hard to get PP, macbookair. It's far from guaranteed even though my mam is from there and this is on family land. There's a provision in the county development plan for a 'favoured niece/nephew' to get PP on family land but our engineer said he'd never known anyone to get...

Thanks for the replies. Loads of reading material on that self-build site. @Bronte. Our proposed site is hilly so I hope that won't throw up problems. We'd be very happy with flat pack kitchens, standard bathrooms, laminate floors in bedrooms etc. We'd hope for 4 not-huge bedrooms, a...

This will be a holiday home for us. My parents already have a home here it's where my mother was reared and we spent our childhood here. I want the same for my kids now.

My uncle has just told me he'd give me a site to build in. Assuming we get planning (huge assumption, Kerry CoCo are very reluctant to allow one off houses in rural locations let alone to someone who will have it as a second home) has anyone any ballpark figure of how much it would be to build a...

I live in an ordinary semi-d house. We recently finished a single storey flat roof extension to the rear of our house. Our neighbours in the house attached to ours have an extension also so the back wall is flush between the two houses, about 6m away from the 2 storey part of the house. We put...

I'll second the recommendation for deanta doors. We got them this year also in solid oak and I love them. Not sure of the model numbers. Our builder supplied them from the north cheaper than we could get them. Mad really that they could order them from Cork, transport to the north and then send...

Just measured my new downstairs shower room which is small but perfectly formed :) It's 1m deep, the depth of the shower tray, and it's 2.4m wide. It's not huge but it's big enough to get dried and dressed in. I wouldn't go smaller cos you want to be able to get dressed in there. The door of my...

I saw Persian Green in the kitchen and hall of a showhouse and it was so gorgeous I tracked the designer down to find out the name of the colour. I think it would be gorgeous in your hall.

Here's what I would love but will never have in my 3 bed semi (which I love and have no intention of moving from) - a walk in wardrobe for me alone. My other half is a total slob and I would love to not have to share any space with him! He can have a closet in the hall or something. - an ensuite...

If you're any way handy with a sewing machine or know someone who is, they sell roman blind kits in Hickeys (around €50 for a 2m wide one) and it makes it really easy to put the blind together. I've done them the old way with the wooden rods which is fine but WAY more time consuming. I recently...

The hearth only went down yesterday cos the granite man was messing me around a lot, so the builder is coming next week to put in the flue etc for the stove. My neighbour got stuff for behind her stover from Buckley's fireplace on Malahide road so I think I'll get the same. It looks like the...

Thanks Joe, yours is probably further away from the wall than ours is going to be, or maybe those cracks are from the heat of the stove?

Computerman, the manual that came with my stove has instructions about how far from the wall the stove should be. What stove did you go for? We have an Orlando single door (chosen by the builder but it looks the part anyway!). A guy came out to me yesterday to measure up for granite for the...

We're having a multifuel stove installed in the corner of our kitchen and wonder what goes on the wall behind the stove to protect the wall from the heat? I don't want to put tiles on the wall because we have no tiles in the kitchen and I think it would look funny. The builder was talking about...

Silver birch are gorgeous, I have 2 in my garden. They grow very fast. Mine are about 10 years old and have grown taller than the house already. Their roots don't spread too much so they can work well even in a relatively small garden. I also have a eucalyptus, evergreen and grows very fast, too...

That's fantastic, thx a million. I got my answer in the manual. I never got a manual with my fridge for some reason so I've saved the link. Thx again.

I'd imagine any masonry paint would do the job.

We recently bought a fisher and paykel fridge and the vegetable drawer is freezing the vegetables. There doesn't seem to be any place where I can adjust the temperature of the fridge to have it not so cold. Does anyone have one of these fridges and may be able to tell me what to do? Thanks

That's great, thanks for the advice. I'll get back on to the builder and insist he changes it to CPB.

Just wondering if anyone has an informed opinion on this: Our architect specified that the facia/ soffits be made from cement particle board. Our builder has used plywood and says they do the same job and that he's never heard of CPB being used. I just wonder why the architect would have specced...