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Room To Improve - Season 17 Episode 4 - Harmonstown
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00:00When you renovate, you either hire a builder, do it yourself, or combine the two.
00:08I want to be looking at it for the rest of my life, so I'll see perfect.
00:11So do you want to give it to somebody else?
00:14I've never been in a project that's declined. It's going to be doing some work.
00:18It's like having your boss sitting beside you, day in, day out.
00:22But when your home becomes your second job, something's got to give.
00:26We have so much on at the moment. It's not strange to be getting four hours sleep and trying to do a full day's work.
00:31And when client and builder join forces, guess who ends up out in the cold?
00:36They decided they were moving it, and they never told me.
00:39That much. They're going to talk to each other, and they're going to leave me out of the loop.
00:56In 2004, primary school teacher Imer from Clontarf moved to Galway and met plumber Adam.
01:07They both fell for each other, but he hit the floor first.
01:10We both do a martial art called Taekwondo, and Imer joined the school that I was a part of.
01:16After the first time she kicked me in the face, I knew it was love at first. Kick.
01:21In 2007, after two years renting, the couple bought their first home.
01:26A three-bed mid-terraced former corporation house in the north Dublin suburb of Harmanstown.
01:33I grew up around this area as well, and you didn't get much choice, I suppose.
01:38We were coming back to the north side, so that was happening.
01:42We started a family in it. We've done a lot in this house.
01:45We've been 11-year-old Callie, and we have 9-year-old Edward, and we now also have a dog.
01:51We've definitely outgrown the house with our family.
01:54The kids do rugby, water polo. Edward wants to take up hurling next year.
02:00Callie's in a book club, so there's a lot of stuff in the house.
02:04The kids are mad into trad music at the moment as well.
02:08Which is really nice, but sometimes hard to concentrate on telling you.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Relaxing when you have all that going on.
02:14The house needs to change with our family, I guess.
02:18In order to manage that change, they're going to need help and guidance.
02:22And with two demanding jobs and two kids to raise, time is not on their side.
02:27Imer's now a primary school principal, and Adam works as an engineer for a water purification company.
02:33My job is quite demanding at the moment, so to try and project manage a job of this size, it's just never going to happen.
02:40No.
02:41I get up in the mornings quite early. During the winter, it's about half-four.
02:44It wouldn't be strange for me to have to hop in my van and go to Cavan, Lavin, to Slybar, Kilkenny.
02:51A normal day would be ten hours a minimum, but it wouldn't be abnormal for me to have a 16-hour day.
02:56No.
02:57We love what Dermot does, which houses his vision most of.
03:02Hey, Adam.
03:03How are you?
03:04Nice to meet you.
03:05How are you?
03:06You must be Imer then.
03:07Hi, Dermot.
03:08How are you?
03:09Nice to meet you.
03:10Come out here and tell me about your house.
03:11It's actually nice and wide, isn't it, for a terraced house.
03:14So this is an ex-1960s Dublin Corporation house.
03:18These were considered designs, and sometimes when a design was considered, the best thing to do with them is to bring them back to their original glory.
03:25Kind of taking it back to that might be a...
03:27Yeah.
03:28Okay.
03:29That would be something we'd be open to, absolutely.
03:31We really don't have a set idea of exactly what we want.
03:35We're very open to ideas.
03:37This will be the shortest episode ever.
03:38We just say yes to everything.
03:39Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:40Go on.
03:41Right.
03:42Can I have a look inside?
03:43Of course.
03:46Where are we?
03:47What's this room?
03:48So this is our kitchen.
03:49Okay.
03:50The kitchen presses in here came from my parents' house, my mum and dad's house.
03:54Did you replace the kitchen when you moved in?
03:56No.
03:57No.
03:58We had no money.
03:59Okay, so you bought at the height of the boom, and you had nothing then left to do anything with it.
04:02So you've done little bits and pieces then over the years.
04:04We have.
04:05Like we were living on camping furniture in the sitting room when we moved in here.
04:07A lot of our house was inherited things and found things and making things work.
04:12Kind of being told, oh, there's a kitchen available.
04:14Would you like it?
04:15Oh, okay.
04:16Let's just use that kitchen.
04:18Like we've never looked at a kitchen.
04:20What's in here?
04:21I'm going to be going to open that because it's just got loads of stuff in it.
04:23I'm going to open it.
04:24But you're going to open it.
04:25Cool.
04:26Storage is a big issue in this house.
04:28I like things off surfaces.
04:30I don't like lots of things, which you wouldn't believe looking around this house.
04:34It feels a little bit like the house is nearly at tipping points.
04:37Every time we get a new appliance in the house, I have to build or create a space for it to go.
04:42So we have a microwave.
04:43This is our COVID by the coffee machine.
04:45Okay.
04:46So you're pretty handy then, are you?
04:47Yeah, I can turn my hand to most things.
04:49Wow.
04:50So you've built all that?
04:51Yeah.
04:52Okay.
04:53Today is an incredibly bright day.
04:54Yeah.
04:55The sun is streaming in and none of it gets in here.
04:57No.
04:58The lighting that, it's not a place where you sit for comfort.
05:00No.
05:01We eat here.
05:02If we have a group of people here, it's only space big enough to hold people.
05:05Yeah.
05:06But it's not a comfortable spot as such.
05:07No.
05:08So this is a utility space.
05:09I'm looking out through.
05:10That's the only glimpse of the garden you have.
05:12From this side of the house, yeah.
05:13And it's in the storage space.
05:15And look back into the kitchen.
05:16Look how dark it is.
05:17It's so dark.
05:18This is the bathroom.
05:19This is the bathroom.
05:20This is the family bathroom.
05:21Adam did up the bathroom downstairs and also did the bathroom upstairs.
05:26Because that's the nicest view in the house.
05:28Yeah.
05:29From here.
05:30And it's got frosted glass.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Well, there's a reason for that.
05:33Yeah.
05:34You have to walk through the kitchen every time you go for a shower.
05:37Yes.
05:38It's the only shower in the house.
05:39Yeah.
05:40That will get more awkward as the kids become more self-aware.
05:43Absolutely.
05:44And they're teenagers.
05:45This is future-proofing.
05:46That's what this house needs to do.
05:48This is probably where our children are going to be for quite a long time, which is fine.
05:51We love them.
05:52We want them to be here, but we want them to be happy here.
05:55I don't think they need future-proofers for when the kids are much older.
05:57I think they've got a crisis coming in the next couple of years when those kids become teenagers.
06:01And they need their own space, want their own space.
06:04And the family dynamics change a bit.
06:06They won't be able for that.
06:07Let alone when the kids are in their mid-20s and can't move out of the house.
06:10Forget about that.
06:11This house needs to work for them over the next five years.
06:14The real challenge is Edward's room.
06:16Okay.
06:17It's the smallest room in the house, but we've everything stored in here.
06:20Seamers' clothes or shoes and stuff.
06:21Up and top again, similar scenario.
06:23Oh my God.
06:24We have bed clothes and the cylinder of the hot press is there.
06:29It feels like you've just moved into the house and you're just throwing stuff into corners
06:32until you kind of figure out what you're going to do with it.
06:34But it's kind of stayed like that.
06:36Yeah, throwing stuff into corners, making corners to throw stuff in.
06:39But we've run out of spaces to make stuff.
06:41Yes.
06:42Well, yeah, we need an intervention.
06:44We need an intervention.
06:45Everything they did to the house had to be done on a shoestring.
06:48They just didn't have the money.
06:49So it's kind of like they've been living in the house temporarily for the last 20 years.
06:54They've never had a master plan for the house.
06:57This is beautiful, isn't it?
06:58You can't see this from anywhere.
07:00No.
07:01You have no idea this is all here.
07:02No.
07:03Not even from inside.
07:04No.
07:05When we moved in, the house had been extended.
07:06It's a double-pitched extension.
07:07The double-pitched mentor was a bit cheaper, so you could use regular timber roof structures.
07:11Oh, really?
07:12Yeah, so that's why there's a wall down the middle.
07:14It's got so much to offer with that back garden.
07:17It's got so much to offer with all that light that comes in the back.
07:20And yet, you're looking at the back garden through two tunnels.
07:23One is the utility room, the nicest utility room in Ireland with the best light.
07:27And on the other side, it's a storage room for all the kids' toys.
07:30So what have you got for the project?
07:33So the budget is 250,000, and that's everything.
07:37If you were just doing cosmetic stuff and doing up the house and putting in new kitchens,
07:40that would be fine.
07:41But you've done that.
07:42We have.
07:43We've done as much as we can.
07:44And it doesn't work?
07:45No.
07:46No.
07:47We've done that major structurally here.
07:48With that, we won't be long spending that amount of money.
07:50No.
07:51Hoping, obviously, that if we can do some of the work, that the money we'll save there,
07:55we can put back into the actual building and the house.
07:58I'll do the plumbing.
07:59I need a major labourer work that can be done for even ripping out.
08:02I'd be happy to take that on board.
08:04You can build kitchens.
08:05You can do everything.
08:06You can do bathrooms.
08:07You can do all of that.
08:08Just remember, I want to be looking at it for the rest of my life, so I'll see perfect.
08:11Oh, good.
08:12So do you want to give it to somebody else?
08:13Yeah.
08:16Given the couple's budget, any major structural change will be a challenge.
08:20Two weeks later, Dermot's back with estimated costings and a plan.
08:25I'm going to do something a bit odd.
08:28That's good news here.
08:30I'd like to move a bathroom upstairs.
08:33Because I think within the budget, we kind of have to stay roughly within the footprint of the house, right?
08:39Yeah.
08:40For the budget, but I couldn't leave you with the bathroom downstairs.
08:45There's something very 1900s about it.
08:48Eamor and Adam's home is small, but it's double fronted, which makes it wide for a terraced house with a wide garden.
08:55I want to take full advantage of that by creating one room stretching across the back.
09:00The low pitch of the current extension and the structural wall down the middle makes it more economical to remove the existing roof and rebuild.
09:08Adding a new bathroom on the first floor and redesigning the extension as three distinct blocks.
09:13The house will be energy retrofitted, but needs to be reconfigured to make it feel more spacious.
09:19All of the services will be located compactly in one corner of the house containing the entrance hall, stairs, under stairs heat pump, WC, utility, storage and a window with a view.
09:31This will clear the back of the house allowing the kitchen, dining and living spaces to open out onto the garden.
09:38Dropping the floor down to garden level will allow a higher ceiling and a feeling of space.
09:43The existing front room will offer a much needed second living space for the family with views right through to the garden.
09:50Upstairs there will be a brand new family bathroom.
09:53The existing small WC will be replaced by extra storage for Eamor and Adam's bedroom.
09:58The boiler will be removed from Edward's room to give him more space and Callie will inherit storage space from the principal bedroom.
10:05These are all small but effective changes.
10:09Love it. Absolutely love it.
10:11Dropping the floor level and raising the ceiling level, I think that's just going to make the house feel like a totally different place.
10:17Do you want to talk about budget?
10:19Sure.
10:20I don't want to but we have to.
10:22This is to upgrade this to an A-rated house.
10:25Okay.
10:26All the costs associated with converting this to an A-rated house.
10:29Windows and doors, repair to the revealed air to water heat system.
10:33Plumbing costs to the bathroom, we might be able to save a bit on that.
10:36All of that comes in at Ā£148,000.
10:39Wow.
10:40We would be eligible for a grant, not as much as kind of other grants because you're a terraced house.
10:45Your grant is going to be Ā£23,150.
10:48So that brings the costs of just the energy upgrades to Ā£125,000.
10:53Then the additional works, it's the creation of the open plan space, the living area, the removing of the dividing walls and all that.
10:59So that brings our final figure to Ā£252,000.
11:02Wow.
11:03Both the cases don't have to go to college.
11:08There's a lot of stuff that I can do, so we'll be able to have a look and think and see what we can save.
11:16By mid-August, the family have moved to nearby Clontarf, where they'll be staying with Eimear's mum, Colette.
11:25We're so lucky to have been able to come back and live with mum.
11:29It would be so difficult, first of all, to find somewhere to rent around this area, and incredibly expensive.
11:35So it would have added a huge cost to what we're doing.
11:38And it's lovely to be able to be here.
11:40It is. I love getting up in the morning and you're here, and then you all go, and that's nice.
11:45See, that's the good bit, the going.
11:48A few weeks ahead of the build, Adam and his side of the family are handling the initial demolition work themselves.
11:54Looking, my brother, Colin, came up from Athlone to give me a hand.
11:57We're a family of tradesmen. Both my brothers are electricians.
12:00Adam's a demolition man in our family.
12:02He started Taekwondo, jeez, it must be like 30 years ago.
12:06He very quickly became known for his demolition skills in Taekwondo.
12:10He has a silver medal for Ireland, actually.
12:15Now, in a bid to reduce costs, Adam's about to invest serious sweat equity.
12:19I'm going and removing all the insulation in the attic, and to be honest, it sucks.
12:24It's the worst time of year to do it. We're in the middle of summer.
12:26It's just sweatier than I've ever been in my whole life.
12:29While all this is going on, I'm trying to stay in the house because I'm still doing my day job.
12:34It's quite demanding at the moment. I'm doing long hours at work.
12:37So I get home. I only have a few hours to get work done.
12:40So I'm pretty much staying working until 11, half, 11 at night,
12:44and then sleeping on a mattress in myself and Eimear's bedroom.
12:49You have to have a shower, of course, so...
12:53Very modern, and the patent is pending.
12:56Luckily, we're closed in, so it's not dodgy.
12:59But I've lived better, even as a bachelor.
13:01But I'm hoping that we save time, save money, and it'll be worth every bit of it.
13:05A few weeks later, the build finally goes to site.
13:09This will be a demanding project for a small crew
13:12and a real test for the cautious optimism of contractor Dennis McGlynn.
13:17It is a tight schedule, so we've, I think, 16 weeks to get it completed.
13:25For that to work, I'll need decisions fairly quick, as usual.
13:30Getting the final sign-off and the final design of Dermot can be difficult.
13:35It has been difficult in the past, and I'm hoping he's changed.
13:39But I'm very doubtful.
13:43Now that Dennis and his crew have taken over where Adam left off,
13:46Dermot and Q.S. Clare arrive to take stock.
13:51It's pretty fantastic. Honestly, that's all it needed was just to open up the back.
13:56Job done, Dennis. You can go home.
14:00Did Adam have a good dent in the demolition completed for you?
14:04No.
14:07One person coming in here, like, what they do in a full week,
14:10me and a couple of my lads would do in, like, maybe an hour or two.
14:15I'm afraid to look. We'll just keep walking straight on.
14:17It's too late now.
14:18The last time I saw the house, it was still a house.
14:22You have been busy. I wasn't this busy. I thought I'd been busy.
14:27Can you quantify what you've saved?
14:29It worked out. It was just short of about a thousand euro.
14:32Savings?
14:33Mm.
14:36God, part of me felt really gutted for Adam.
14:39It kind of made it feel like it was a little bit of a waste of time
14:42doing all the work, as every brother did.
14:43So there was two of you at it? That's 500 quid each.
14:45I didn't realise that Adam was actually sleeping here
14:47and sharing out the backyard, that was unbelievable.
14:58You did so much horrible stuff to start it off and you're brilliant.
15:04So are you happy now that there's somebody else here
15:06and it's not down to you?
15:08He rang me yesterday morning and you were like,
15:10I've given him the keys.
15:12I've handed over responsibility.
15:14I've handed it over to Dennis.
15:16Our contract sum is ā¬250,000.
15:19So we're exactly on budget.
15:21Our cost plan estimate was ā¬252,000.
15:24So we've managed to save about ā¬2,000.
15:27And that was partially from the demolition that Adam carried out himself.
15:32And then a few other small minor tweaks.
15:34There's no room for manoeuvre, though, within that ā¬250,000.
15:38You still have the electrical and the heating and the plumbing to do.
15:42There's no labour for the mechanical and the electrical plumbing.
15:45Adam and his brother is going to carry out that work.
15:48Every good builder likes to have complete control over the entire job.
15:53Who's going to pour my concrete?
15:55Who's going to be my electrician?
15:56Who's going to be my plumber?
15:57And Adam and his brother are taking on two of those roles.
16:00And that is going to be hard for Dennis.
16:02I don't know how I feel about it at the minute.
16:04I've never been in a project that the client is going to be doing some work on it.
16:09And generally it's something I wouldn't really sort of like.
16:13It's like having your boss sitting beside you day in, day out.
16:17It's worth about ā¬20,000 in labour between the plumbing and the electrics.
16:22It's non-negotiable.
16:23I keep the same plumbers over the last 20 years.
16:27So this is going to be new.
16:30Adam will be doing everything in this build at night time, at weekends, after doing a full-time job.
16:37It is tight time-wise.
16:39If the plumbing starts to spread out over a week or two, over evenings, it's not going to work, you know.
16:56It's early September at Adam and Eamir's house in Harmanstown.
16:59Today, Dermot's on site to measure up for the new windows.
17:03Can I do a tilt and turn on that?
17:05Yeah.
17:06And I'll give you the size of it.
17:08But before they can be installed, Dennis and his crew and, unusually, his client, have a lot to do.
17:15We're two weeks in. We've progressed well.
17:17The windows and doors, once they're ordered, I can really do a schedule and plan things out.
17:24The subfloor has gone in today.
17:26Block lane, continue on the roof and carpentry work, sort of first fixed carpentry roof, flat roof.
17:33So we'll really need Adam's input then.
17:36It's a strange situation that the client, the owner, will be actually doing work on the house.
17:41I've told him he is about two weeks of no work. And then after about two weeks, he'll have to come in and start doing first fixed plumbing.
17:49It's going to be busy. I'll have to do my first fix on the underfloor heating, which has been 13 years since I've done underfloor heating.
17:55So I'm looking forward to that. I might YouTube it.
17:58And then, I guess the screen goes in after that.
18:01And then, myself and my brothers, we'll be doing the first fix for the electrical and the plumbing.
18:07We had a big day yesterday. It was Edward's tenth birthday.
18:10So double digits, a big milestone. And we're going to go bowling.
18:14I've got my lovely odd socks on. I can't find a thing in my mother's house.
18:18Imer is competitive, and I suppose I probably am a bit as well.
18:25We'll probably try and focus on the kids, seeing as it is Edward's birthday.
18:29I'm not going to let him win though, of course.
18:33Definitely taking advantage of now, because it's going to be very busy.
18:40We'll stay the calm before the storm, I guess.
18:42With those winds of change holding off, for now, steel supports are being installed for the redesigned extension.
18:53As the structure takes shape, Dermot's keen to help his clients visualize the space inside.
18:59So there's going to be a bathroom where, Adam, you're going to be...
19:03Oh, he knows it.
19:05So the bathroom will go here to divide up the space.
19:08All this zone where we are is services.
19:10Functional kind of zone.
19:11So we've got utility room, we've got storage, we've got the bathroom, we've got the heat pump.
19:15So this quarter is workhorse.
19:18And it's all in the one space.
19:19All in the one space.
19:20The dining table will be here.
19:22Okay.
19:23Okay.
19:24And then over here is our second sitting room.
19:26This is the relaxing area.
19:28I suppose it's a house of little tricks, if you know what I mean.
19:31So we're trying to kind of get as much into the small space as possible.
19:35So this is, by gathering all of the kind of, the loose bits.
19:40So that's the utility rooms and the storage and all that.
19:42And pushing them into one corner.
19:44It allows all of this to be open.
19:46Yeah.
19:47I'm going to start to realize what space is going to be like.
19:49They've just been taking stuff out, the builders.
19:51Yeah.
19:52Dennis and the lads have done great work.
19:54They've done phenomenal work.
19:55And it's just been stuff coming out.
19:57There was a new skip every week.
19:58And when all this stuff is going in, we can kind of see.
20:01Yeah.
20:02This is where you kind of, you come into it a little bit.
20:06Okay.
20:07So we need to, well, mood boards.
20:10Yeah.
20:11You've been avoiding that one for a while, haven't you?
20:13I've never seen a mood board.
20:15I've never seen anything that they like, which is really unusual at this stage of a project.
20:22We don't have a huge space to play with.
20:24No.
20:25So the materials that we put back into the house will be really, really important.
20:28Because they will dominate the space.
20:30Yeah.
20:31So I need to know what you like and what you don't like.
20:33Okay.
20:34Okay.
20:35This is like starting from scratch.
20:36And I suppose they've never really done it.
20:39A lot of our stuff was repurposed.
20:40Yeah.
20:41Yes.
20:42So I've no real sense of what we actually like.
20:44Yeah.
20:45It's been a while since I got homework.
20:46I know.
20:47Separate, okay?
20:48Yeah, sure.
20:49Why don't you do separate?
20:50For the whole house?
20:51Yeah.
20:52Well, just for whatever.
20:53Just what you like and what you don't.
20:54Just do, let's do one room.
20:55Yeah.
20:56Because I've been asking for it for a few weeks now.
20:57No, you haven't.
20:58I think what you said was, have you done...
20:59Oh, my God.
21:00Anyway, I'm trying to help you here.
21:02I'm trying to help you.
21:03I think what you said was, have you done a mood board?
21:05And I said, what's a mood board?
21:06And then I explained.
21:07To be fair.
21:08That's not asking for it.
21:09That's...
21:10Oh, my God.
21:11Jesus.
21:12By mid-September, QS Clare has already assessed another of Adam and Emer's homework projects.
21:21The subject is economics, and the grades are about to be announced.
21:25How are you?
21:26Yeah, okay.
21:27Yeah?
21:28Not nervous at all.
21:29No?
21:30No.
21:31No, I wanted to just pull you both together just to run through the budget.
21:36And I know you've been shopping for the plumbing and the heating elements.
21:40Yeah.
21:41We allowed 16,500 plus VAT, so that amounted to 20,295 euro, to buy all of the plumbing
21:49elements and all of the electrical items.
21:51Okay.
21:52For the first fixed electrics and for the plumbing so far, our bill is 11,000 euro.
21:57Okay.
21:58Amazing.
21:59So we're doing pretty good.
22:00That's great.
22:01Yeah, really good.
22:02Well done, you.
22:03So we're 9,273 under budget at the minute.
22:06Amazing.
22:07That's amazing.
22:08Yeah.
22:09I'm so proud of you.
22:10Yeah.
22:11Thanks.
22:12I'm delighted with Adam.
22:14He's done really, really well.
22:15I think he's called in all his favours.
22:18I would say you probably have about another 1,500 to 2,000 euro to spend there.
22:23I'd say so, yeah.
22:24So if we had seven, seven and a half thousand left over, that would be really good going.
22:30So we have a few other PC sums contained within the contract.
22:34You talked about putting wooden floor or laminate into the sitting room.
22:37You know, we were talking about actually potentially polished concrete in the...
22:42Oh my God.
22:43There you go.
22:44There you go.
22:45I'm going to get you along right now.
22:46You didn't tell me that.
22:47So you were saying she likes the idea of like one solid finish.
22:50One kind of clean surface.
22:51Yeah.
22:52Okay.
22:53We were doing so well.
22:54I'm sorry.
22:55We would nearly need all of your saving from the M&E to go towards that.
23:00Okay.
23:01I just like the idea of one surface.
23:09With their freshly discovered savings earmarked for new flooring, Adam and Emer are back in the world of dreams.
23:16Finally, those long awaited mood boards are ready for inspection.
23:20I was actually really excited about meeting them today because this was going to be the kind of
23:25the key that unlocks them.
23:28Who's first?
23:29I don't know.
23:30I don't know.
23:31We'll go with Emer.
23:32Ah!
23:33Okay.
23:34They brought in the boards, turned them over and my heart sank.
23:38There's a lot of white.
23:40Do you think?
23:41Yes.
23:42Okay.
23:43A lot of white.
23:44And white wasn't what I was aiming for.
23:45It was kind of more...
23:46Like I love the...
23:47That kind of floor.
23:49There's a kind of a terrazzo floor.
23:51Yeah.
23:52A terrazzo kind of a floor.
23:53All I saw was a sea of white.
23:54And beige.
23:55You look so surprised.
23:56I'm really shocked.
23:57I pride myself for being able to read people.
24:00Yeah.
24:01Not anymore.
24:02But those are a little bit bland and you're not bland people.
24:07At all.
24:08No we're not.
24:09I just don't 100% believe that that's them.
24:12This is for me, this is the base.
24:14And then the colour can come from a bit here.
24:17A thing here or a piece here.
24:19Ah, Adam, that's AI.
24:20Yeah.
24:21One of them is AI.
24:22That took me ages to do.
24:23The AI is a pain.
24:24Again, it's really simple.
24:25Yeah.
24:26I'm a simple man, darn it.
24:27And actually Adam buckled a little bit.
24:28I don't know if I'm gone in that colour.
24:29That's why I went for the different stripes.
24:30So this is your heart and your sleeve.
24:31And you're saying, I don't know if I like it.
24:32Yeah, pretty much.
24:33So what don't you like?
24:34Do you find that a bit bland?
24:35Yes.
24:36Look, see.
24:37I knew you were lying.
24:38I knew you were lying to me.
24:39Do you like the white?
24:40Yeah.
24:41You do?
24:42Do you?
24:43No.
24:44A mood board is stuff that you love.
24:46I had to Google mood board.
24:47This is all new to me doing this crack.
24:48It's the previous house.
24:49Like you had lots.
24:50Yeah.
24:51Yeah.
24:52Yeah.
24:53Yeah.
24:54Yeah.
24:55Yeah.
24:56Yeah.
24:57Yeah.
24:58Yeah.
24:59Yeah.
25:00Yeah.
25:01Yeah.
25:02Yeah.
25:03Yeah.
25:04You had lots of ornaments.
25:06Lots of bits.
25:07Lots of things stuck on the wall.
25:09Lots of kids stuff.
25:11Lots of musical instruments.
25:12This is the opposite.
25:13It is the opposite.
25:14It's a reaction.
25:15It's a reaction to what they had.
25:17And I suppose they needed to change the house.
25:19It wasn't working for them.
25:20They needed storage.
25:22They were fed up with the clutter and the lack of space
25:26and the lack of storage and everything.
25:28So they went the complete opposite.
25:30It's a bit like a pendulum swinging.
25:31When you want to change something, you tend to want to go the exact opposite.
25:36Over here is what they had.
25:39This is what they've shown me.
25:41And I need to find where the pendulum lands.
25:46The use of colour to define space hinges on balance.
25:49And to help his clients find theirs, Dermot's taking them to a house in Sandymount
25:54with a layout not unlike their own.
25:57Keep an open mind.
25:58Yep.
25:59That's all I'm asking.
26:00Absolutely.
26:02Do not fixate on any one item, okay?
26:06Yep.
26:07Just walk into it and feel it and do you like it.
26:10Okay.
26:11This two-bed Victorian terrace house remodelled in 2025 by Scullion Architects
26:16makes the most of relatively compact spaces by using vibrant colour and materials,
26:22integrated storage and clever routes to coordinate and weave them together.
26:27Oh, it's gorgeous.
26:28Oh, class.
26:29Yeah, it's lovely.
26:30Beautiful.
26:31Fab.
26:32Yeah.
26:33Yeah.
26:34I wanted to bring them somewhere where the materials that were used, they're a big item
26:40in the house.
26:41The floor in here is spectacular.
26:43I love the natural quarry brick.
26:45I think this is a real statement in here.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Because, you know, everything else is actually quite white and paired back.
26:52But the floor colour, that goes really well with the light kitchen.
26:55The white.
26:56Yeah.
26:57It's really nice.
26:58That's what I couldn't picture.
26:59The red is a very, very strong colour in here because it's used on the cabinetry.
27:02It's used on the shelves.
27:04But it's not overpowering.
27:05It's kind of, it's simple.
27:07I do think it creates the feeling that we want in our room.
27:10Okay.
27:11And it's not a busy feeling.
27:12No.
27:13It doesn't have stuff everywhere.
27:14No.
27:15And it does have all of the, I suppose it has the function and the feeling.
27:19But this is the complete opposite to your pictures.
27:21See, if you're talking about mood, I don't think it is.
27:25Oh my God.
27:26I don't.
27:27Does she do this all the time?
27:28Just give up.
27:29Just say yes.
27:30I know where you're coming from.
27:31You want everything put away.
27:32You want the clutter gone.
27:34It's too, too much.
27:36It's too far.
27:37If you've got lots of bits and pieces that are lying around or you want to put up on shelves,
27:43like musical instruments, books, objects, stuff that the kids do, allowing the floor and joinery to become stronger than the bits means then that it's, I think it's more family friendly.
27:55It's a bit like, you know, having a dark timber floor is a lot more forgiving.
27:58If this was white, everything that sits on it is kind of, ooh, I don't know, does that work there?
28:03It needs to be curated.
28:04And wait till I show you some clever little tricks.
28:06So there's tons and tons of storage in here.
28:11Oh wow.
28:12That's fab.
28:13More storage in here.
28:14Amazing.
28:15And that's what we're doing.
28:16So when you come down the steps, we're doing a whole wall of storage on there.
28:19So that'll get rid of all of the clutter.
28:21But I still think you're the kind of family who will, you'll still want to display a few bits.
28:26Absolutely we will.
28:27We want to live in the house as well and feel like it's our house.
28:32But I don't want to display the Tim's Beans.
28:35No.
28:36I really love this house.
28:41It's not something that I would have imagined, but I wish I could imagine it.
28:46Because my mood board probably would have been different.
28:48Last little trick of this design, it actually was what the whole design was about,
28:53was connecting the front room.
28:55Look at this.
28:56What is it?
28:57A little pocket door.
28:58A little pocket door.
28:59This one little simple door is enough to give you the connection.
29:02Yeah, absolutely.
29:03Allow the two rooms to be used together.
29:05Because in our house as well, we're hoping to, that all the rooms will connect into each other.
29:09So there'll be an option for a separate space.
29:12But also that that separate space can be accessed really easily from the downstairs space.
29:17So the pocket door is really, really clever here.
29:19Oh, and the same colour palette is here too.
29:21Just breathe away.
29:22Yeah.
29:23I can see his point about having or wanting a stronger colour to be one of the bigger ticket items in the kitchen, like the floor.
29:31The fact that you guys are looking at maybe polished concrete or terrazza or something like that,
29:34it's already a natural material.
29:36But white?
29:37I don't know.
29:38Would you consider putting colour through it?
29:41I think we'd be quite open to seeing something like that.
29:44Absolutely.
29:45Is that a yes then?
29:46Definitely didn't say the word yes.
29:48No.
29:49I think I said we'd be...
29:50You haven't learnt.
29:51I've met my match.
30:01By early October, the arrival of new windows means the house will soon be weather tight and ready for first fixed plumbing.
30:08If, that is, Adam can find the time to do it.
30:11I feel like a bit of a nomad at the moment because, I suppose, we're not living in our own house.
30:16We're spending more time in the van.
30:18It wouldn't be strange to be getting up at four or half four.
30:21Because of the line of work that I'm in, it's a reactive business.
30:24So I could get a call and have to put on me work gear, get in the van and drive anywhere in the country, really, to fix some machine that's broke down.
30:33But there's so much on at the moment between the house and everything.
30:36It's not strange to be getting four hours sleep and trying to do a full day's work.
30:40At home, Adam's workload is equally unforgiving.
30:43With an entire underfloor heating system to install, his lonely vigil begins on Friday night.
30:49I would be two people doing this.
30:51Normally, you'd have one person feeding off the roller and then one person putting down the pipe.
30:56So I think it's 387 metres.
30:59I'm on my own doing it, so it's probably going to take me the weekend to do it.
31:02I'm pretty tired.
31:04I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't my own house.
31:07It's tax enough, but we're built tough, so we'll be grand.
31:13And that's what you call dedication.
31:17By Monday, Adam's newly installed pipework is ready to be sealed with a layer of screed.
31:22Everything on this project is about maximising and enhancing the existing space.
31:27Except for the light fittings, which Dermot wants minimised and hidden.
31:31Enter architectural lighting expert Rocky Wall.
31:35The only thing that you're going to notice in this space, if there's a big pendant over the table, is the pendant.
31:40If I can get rid of all of the things that are hanging or projecting or punched into the ceiling, it will make the place, I think, feel much bigger.
31:49If you were to leave 300 off the ceiling with the units, you could introduce a linear light above there that would indirectly bounce onto the ceiling and would give us a generous amount of light.
31:59The light sits on top of the wall unit.
32:01Okay. Would that work?
32:02It does work, yeah. No problem, yeah.
32:05Seems a bit sad.
32:06I'm sceptical.
32:08Scepticism is the reason you brought me here, because you want something that's going to work that's a little bit different.
32:13My motto is that you can spend the same amount of money doing a bad job as you do doing a good job.
32:18So it's not necessarily about the expense of a light fitting.
32:21It's about getting the light in the right place.
32:23I really like the idea of the lights up on top.
32:25I just want to make sure that we're not losing a whole heap of storage space.
32:29Is there ways of even refining that, that we would be able to even put the light at an angle?
32:35Then that gap there can be less.
32:37The more restricted you are in that space, the more the reflection is kind of reduced.
32:42So maximum distance is what we're looking for.
32:46So somewhere between 200 and 300.
32:49If they implement what was suggested, it could end up being a very nice space.
32:55As it turns out, however, one aspect of that space may not be quite as nice as Dermot originally planned.
33:02On this wall here, I had a freezer.
33:04I had an oven in the middle.
33:06And I had a fridge on the other side.
33:09I got bad news here.
33:11The freezer's not going to go in the corner, because that's where the heat pump the cylinder's going for.
33:15I thought the heat pump was going under the stairs.
33:17It fits. We went through with Dennis.
33:19And it was all working out like a really nice plan.
33:22Everything was tucked away.
33:23It was...I was very proud of it.
33:26Until Adam threw in the clangor.
33:28You're not going to fit in there, because it's 1.7 metres.
33:31Yes, it's not.
33:33So what has happened since we started on site is the level of the floor has come up slightly,
33:38because we were trying to match it with the outside.
33:41The heat pump doesn't fit under the stairs. It's long and short of it.
33:44And because Adam is doing the plumbing, himself and Dennis had the chats about it.
33:51And they decided they were moving it.
33:53And they never told me.
33:54We're out at about 50 mil.
33:55Yeah.
33:56It would have fit underneath that stairs.
33:59That much.
34:00We could have had the heat pump underneath that stairs if we dropped the floor by that much.
34:05And it's a stupid, stupid mistake.
34:08I should have just measured that.
34:09I should have double checked it.
34:10I'm annoyed.
34:11I'm annoyed at myself that I didn't check the height of the heat pump.
34:14I'm annoyed that Adam and Dennis talked about it.
34:17But it doesn't matter really, because I just have to stay ahead of plumbing issues,
34:22because they're going to talk to each other and they're going to leave me out of the loop.
34:25So we have to move the freezer from there.
34:26So will we just lose one of the storage units down here and put a freezer into it?
34:30Um...
34:33We don't have a choice.
34:34We've lost an entire tall cabinet from the kitchen.
34:38And that's a lot.
34:39For Eamur, storage is her number one priority and getting things off the floor, off cabinets.
34:45But anyway, it is what it is.
34:47There's nothing I can do about it.
34:48These things are organic and moving.
34:51That's such a coward.
34:54It really is.
34:56I know.
34:58There's nothing feckin' organic or moving about a heat pump.
35:01Sorry now.
35:02There's other words for bullshit.
35:06I think for any client who's not getting an extension,
35:09you're kind of asking people, trust me, I can make what you already have work much better.
35:14That is a leap of faith.
35:17And there's a lot of trust in that.
35:19So, a mess up like today with the heat pump, that trust gets eroded.
35:25It's October.
35:37Eamur and Adam have opted for a terrazzo floor and Dermott's hoping they'll run with his suggestion of a bold terracotta shade.
35:44Having already miscalculated the floor level, he really needs to regain their trust.
35:50Look, today is make or break.
35:53I think this coral clay colour could be amazing and it'll be a real design statement, but that's me wanting it for them.
36:00They've never done this before.
36:01They've never kind of had free reign and been able to design what they want and to make it their own.
36:08I really, really want them to own this.
36:11And so, to the workshop of terrazzo guru Philip Scallon.
36:15Watch and learn.
36:16So, today we're going to let you make your own floor sample.
36:20Exactly.
36:21To show you what it could potentially look like.
36:24First step, guys, is to make your mix using cement.
36:27We add the stone.
36:28And when we're finished adding the stone, we're going to add the pigment.
36:31I wasn't expecting to be manual labour.
36:34I would have stayed in your work clothes.
36:35Yeah, you should have.
36:36It's all about what you're going to imagine it's going to be, damn it.
36:39So, imaginary.
36:40Let's start off what you think it's going to look like.
36:43You said that almost with a straight face.
36:46But how do you control it?
36:47The magic stick is going to control it.
36:50This can't be how you make floors.
36:52It was really interesting to see the difference that a darker pigment or a different sized stone can make.
36:58And we're just going to overseed it slightly like you're feeding a chicken.
37:03That's lovely.
37:04You'd be very good at feeding chicken.
37:06Chicken.
37:07The flour, once it's poured, it cures.
37:09Okay.
37:10How long does it take to cure?
37:11About 24 to 48 hours.
37:13However, I have prepared samples for you guys.
37:17The colour, when it was put in front of them.
37:21Okay.
37:22I was really nervous that they were kind of going to balk at it.
37:25A very intense colour again.
37:27When we brought out the kind of plainer colours.
37:30This is kind of what you had shown me.
37:32Yeah.
37:33This was the real test.
37:35Put this in front of them.
37:36And will they fall back to the safe option?
37:41Then going towards the darker.
37:43The dark one.
37:44I think if we're going to go bold, we may as well go all in.
37:47I really like this one.
37:48But I don't think they're a million miles away from each other either.
37:50Neither of the two of them reverted back to the plain colours.
37:53And I was there.
37:54That's it.
37:55That's all I needed to hear today.
37:57But are we down to the two of those?
37:58Are we down?
37:59Yeah.
38:00No, I think so.
38:01If you want to have strong design, you do sometimes have to be really brave at your choices.
38:06And I'm, oh, so delighted they are.
38:09I'm happy not to be involved.
38:11I'm happy just to kind of, no, because I want you to own this.
38:14And I want you to think, we were there that day.
38:16We mixed them up.
38:17We picked it.
38:18So you're happy not to be the centre of attention?
38:20No, I didn't say that.
38:23Back at the house, Adam's brother Brian has come all the way from Galway to oversee
38:28First Fix Electrics.
38:30Because that's what family does.
38:32I'm returning them a favour here because he helped plumb my house 20 years ago.
38:36So I've got roped into this.
38:38Although it's the far side of the country, three hours away.
38:41But yeah, it's good to be here, yeah.
38:44For the size of the house, there's a lot of work to do.
38:46There's a lot of lighting.
38:47A lot of cables to pull.
38:49The year Westlite have announced their five gigs next September.
38:52Oh, really?
38:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:54Yeah.
38:55So Adam was a failed member.
38:57He tried out for Westlite.
38:59He had all the talent.
39:01Couldn't sing.
39:02Couldn't dance.
39:03Yeah?
39:04It's not true.
39:05Look at him.
39:06He's got the boy band look.
39:08Over at Emer's mum's house, another audition is about to begin.
39:12And Dermot's hoping to make the most of his influence with the panel.
39:16Most of our wall is going to be kitchen.
39:18So actually a huge amount of our surface is going to be kitchen.
39:22So it's going to be really important.
39:24See the way your kitchen is tucked in in the corner kind of.
39:26Yeah.
39:27And your walls are kind of the predominant colour.
39:29Yeah.
39:30Our kitchen is going to be the colour.
39:32The predominant colour.
39:33I think the fact that we've picked these stones, we should probably try and keep it simple.
39:38Yeah.
39:39What do you think, Colette?
39:40Could be more interesting, maybe.
39:42It's very obvious, this, with this.
39:45Okay.
39:46Yeah.
39:47Look at that.
39:48Seriously?
39:49It is very obvious.
39:50Well, it's that colour.
39:51When you say obvious, you're not saying that.
39:52She's not saying it in a positive way, is she?
39:53Oh, I'm not.
39:54I'm not picking it up in a positive way.
39:56I thought it was a bit of an eye-opener.
39:58It was...
39:59Honestly, I thought we were pushing the boundaries with the floor.
40:03Do you think we should be a bit more adventurous?
40:04I do.
40:07Oh, my God.
40:08I do.
40:09Oh, my God.
40:10She's got me thinking.
40:11She's got me thinking.
40:12I can't...
40:13You can't un-hear the word obvious.
40:16She can't.
40:17I think he's hurt.
40:20He'll get over it.
40:21He'll be okay.
40:22He'll be fine.
40:24Added to the demands of a full-time job,
40:27Adam has put in weeks of hard labour
40:29and late nights at home.
40:31And burning the candle at both ends is thirsty work.
40:35I brought you a beer.
40:36And it's even...
40:37It's even...
40:38It's a zero-zero.
40:39Because we're on a building site.
40:41It's the tante counts.
40:42It's the tante counts it is.
40:44Yep.
40:45There you go.
40:46Congratulations.
40:47Thanks.
40:48Right.
40:49Cheers.
40:50Cheers.
40:51Yeah.
40:52Thank you very much.
40:53It's shattered.
40:54It's shattered, yeah.
40:55It's actually shattered.
40:56I love doing the work,
40:57and I love doing the work in my own house.
40:58Yeah.
40:59I just wish I wasn't so tired.
41:00You're on the home stretch now.
41:01You really are.
41:02You just have to put the head down and keep going.
41:04Yeah.
41:09You have to admire this family's commitment to this project.
41:12Enter Eimear and Adam's daughter, Callie,
41:14with a carefully considered design for her own bedroom.
41:18Look at you.
41:19You've got your paint colours in there for you.
41:20I built a little model of what I'd like it.
41:21Oh, right.
41:22Is that that shape there?
41:23Yeah.
41:24So, you're going to...
41:25So, what do you want in here?
41:26Describe it.
41:27A drawer here.
41:28At the triangular piece, yeah?
41:29Yeah.
41:30Okay.
41:31A drawer above it to hang clothes on.
41:32Yeah.
41:33You see where, like, the diagonal bit kind of ends.
41:35Yeah.
41:36Like, from straight up there.
41:37Yeah.
41:38You half it.
41:39Did you come up with that by yourself?
41:40Yeah.
41:41I was very excited to do it.
41:42I was a bit nervous.
41:44But when I did it, I felt very happy.
41:47Can I say, Callie, really impressive drawings.
41:50It is, isn't it?
41:51Way better than the drawings I get.
41:53I was waiting for that.
41:54Way better than the drawings I get.
41:56Other people could take a leaf out of Callie's book.
41:59How long did it take you to do it?
42:00Um, maybe an hour.
42:02Oh, my God.
42:03That's putting me to shame.
42:04Callie was great.
42:05Like, she had this plan.
42:07She came in with a plan.
42:09I'd love for that wall there to be painted, like,
42:11a kind of dark, kind of blue colour.
42:12A dark blue?
42:13What about that one?
42:14Hmm.
42:15No.
42:16Really?
42:17No.
42:18Dermot made a few suggestions, but she stuck, basically,
42:21to the plan that you had.
42:23I think we have a plan.
42:24High five.
42:25Good stuff.
42:26Well done, Callie.
42:27Come on, you.
42:28We're going to build this, aren't you, Derek?
42:29We're progressing fairly well.
42:34We're down to finishes now, so a few days left and lots to do.
42:38If we can get the terrazzo in, that is the big thing.
42:41Everything else will fall into place.
42:43And with that, the final stage of the project gets underway.
42:48Five months after their home became a building site and Adam's second job,
43:05the builders are gone, the family are back, and Harmony has returned to Harmanstown.
43:11Oh, this is lovely, isn't it?
43:12It is.
43:13It came out really well.
43:14Calm and peaceful, isn't it?
43:15And warm.
43:16And warm.
43:17Guide me through.
43:18Okay.
43:19Mind your step.
43:20Someone decided to lower the floor.
43:21This was an old Dublin corporation house, and in fact it was really well designed.
43:30It was double fronted.
43:31It had dual aspect.
43:32It looked from front to back.
43:34And it had what a lot of corporation houses had at the time, these amazing back gardens.
43:39The house, through interventions and what had happened to it over the years,
43:43had turned its back on the garden and had become small and cramped.
43:47I hope that's been reversed and we're now taking advantage of all of the really cool things about the design.
43:55Though it still occupies the same footprint, the ground floor has been transformed.
44:04From the open-plan kitchen, dining and living space, to the cosy front room,
44:12the original dual aspect of the house is restored, flooding the interior with light
44:17and returning a long-lost connection with the garden.
44:20Oh my God.
44:25Oh my God is overused.
44:26But this is...
44:28It's beautiful.
44:29Yeah.
44:30Isn't it?
44:31The floor is incredible.
44:32I haven't seen it all sealed up and cleaned up.
44:35It is phenomenal.
44:37It's fabulous.
44:38It's the hero of the house.
44:39It really is.
44:41I don't think we ever could have pictured that the house would turn out the way it has.
44:46Like, it's unrecognisable, but there's still us in it.
44:52The kitchen.
44:53Like, the idea was to kind of have it blend into the background.
44:58Who was your mum?
44:59What did she tell you?
45:00Oh, it was your words.
45:01Her words was obvious.
45:03But it was...
45:04Do you remember we went to see the house in the standing room?
45:05Yeah.
45:06And they had these gorgeous handles.
45:07Yes.
45:08And it was actually just kind of referencing them and saying,
45:10well, we do the same.
45:11Yeah.
45:12I think if this had all been just an off-white, it would have been too much.
45:17Now, did your brother wire up the lighting?
45:20He did, yeah.
45:21So...
45:22How does this work?
45:23Because we have no light fittings on the ceiling.
45:24No.
45:25I know.
45:27It's great, isn't it?
45:28Yeah, it's great.
45:29It really is.
45:30Dermot has been brilliant.
45:33Working with Dermot...
45:35It's a bit chaos.
45:36Yeah, it is.
45:37He's pure chaos.
45:38It's a bit chaos, but it's good fun as well.
45:39But it's genius what he did.
45:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:41It is.
45:42And the finished results is just...
45:44Yeah.
45:45It was worth it.
45:46No step.
45:47No straight out.
45:48Yeah.
45:49The whole idea with this was rather than having a kind of a flat extension at the back,
45:53it was to break down the scale of it, break it into three boxes.
45:56By pulling this box out, it gave us a little canopy.
45:59So if it is drizzling, you can still leave that door open.
46:02Yeah, that's right.
46:03And it gives you that lovely little strip light there.
46:04How does it work?
46:05Um...
46:07Hang on.
46:08Yeah.
46:11Ta-da!
46:12Ta-da!
46:13This came with the house originally.
46:15That window has not changed at the front, and I love being able to see the whole way through.
46:18Yeah, you can.
46:19It's lovely.
46:20It's just celebrating what is the great thing about these houses.
46:23Yeah.
46:24This job went swimmingly.
46:25There was only one hiccup.
46:27And unfortunately, it wasn't Dennis's fault.
46:30It wasn't Adam's fault.
46:31It wasn't anybody's fault, bar mine.
46:33We've moved kind of all of the utilitarian stuff in here.
46:36So there's the heat pump, there's storage, there's the utility.
46:39And this is your cupboard.
46:40I know this wasn't supposed to be your cupboard.
46:43Your cupboard was supposed to be under the stairs.
46:44Yeah.
46:45Who mentioned that?
46:46No.
46:47No.
46:48Someone didn't know how to use a measuring tape.
46:49No.
46:50No.
46:51Damn it.
46:52But, no, it worked out great.
46:54Are you glad you did it?
46:56Did the plumbing?
46:57Hmm.
46:58I am?
46:59No.
47:00There was, there was points.
47:01There were tough times.
47:02It was, it was a lot to take on.
47:03It was probably too much to take on with.
47:04With the job.
47:05Yeah.
47:06The upstairs bathroom, getting that space lovely.
47:08But I still walk in there, I remember the hardship.
47:11This house, it wouldn't have happened without what you did.
47:14There's just no way we would have been able to have the beautiful floor, say, or the fabulous
47:19kitchen, or the lovely joinery, or the sanitary ware in the downstairs bathroom.
47:24If Adam and his brothers hadn't done all the extra stuff that they did.
47:29Back into the original living room.
47:33This was your idea.
47:34The herringbone, yes.
47:35I wasn't as mad on it.
47:36You didn't.
47:37You wanted long boards.
47:38I love this floor so much.
47:40I love it.
47:41I think it's gorgeous.
47:42I love it now.
47:43One of the hardest parts of this project was getting them to make it their own.
47:50Because they had never done it before.
47:53What started out as a project that they were nervous to put their own stamp on it, turned
47:59into a project that, as a family, they completely owned.
48:03What's it like seeing your design come to life?
48:06It's amazing.
48:07Something that I drew and then suddenly it's real life.
48:10It's really cool to see it.
48:12Callie put so much work into designing her wardrobe and her room and she just got such a kick out of that.
48:19And then Edward's room.
48:20Eddie picked the colour for his room.
48:22Adam rang me and he was like, Imer, the ceiling is green.
48:25Everything is green.
48:26Eddie picked green.
48:27I didn't know what colour drenching was.
48:28I love my colour drenched room.
48:30I think it turned out really well.
48:33It's such a transformation from the old house.
48:36It's unrecognisable to be honest.
48:38We started on site at ā¬250,000 and we finished at ā¬254,000.
48:43We do have an SEI grant of ā¬23,000 to follow for the energy upgrade works.
48:48And we made a huge saving of about ā¬20,000 as a result of Adam and his brothers completing the electrical, the plumbing and the mechanical on the job.
48:56We took a 75-year-old home and turned it into an A-rated home.
49:01That's just phenomenal.
49:05I have to say Dharma does work wonders again.
49:08From everybody who's involved, hats off to you guys.
49:12You worked your backsides off.
49:14Certainly, I'd give Adam a job in the morning.
49:16He can turn his hand to nearly anything as well.
49:18It's just not plumbing.
49:19So, yeah, if he ever gives up his other job, I'd definitely give him a job.
49:23I hope you're really happy here.
49:25Thank you very much.
49:26I think it's worked out really, really well.
49:30I love, I have to say, the not obvious kitchen and the not obvious flow.
49:37Homes are not just about square footage.
49:40It's about how you carve them up and how you use them.
49:44Well, that's on paper.
49:45On the ground, it's about hard work.
49:48It's about materials.
49:49It's about finishes.
49:50It's about personality.
49:51And it's about making it your own.
49:53And that's something that Ymir and Adam have done to a tee.
49:58And it's about making it your life.
49:59It's about making it, even though.
50:00And it's about you.
50:01Or you can't?
50:02And you can't see them.
50:03It's aboutļæ½ė” yepy.
50:04And it's about my life.
50:05And I think that's my life.
50:06It's about you.
50:07I think it's about it.
50:08Especially for you.
50:09And you can see it.
50:10You can see it.
50:11And I don't see it.
50:12It's about taking action.
50:13I think you're taking action and getting those frames away from the back.
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