The Selfbuild Podcast

Pete Finn, AKA Pete the builder, of RTÉ's Home Rescue and advisory firm Let's Talk Homes joins tiny house builder Paul Lawford of smallchange.ie to chat about the process of building your home in Ireland today with cost saving tips, including:

• Once the house has been designed, planning permission has been approved, Health & Safety has been done on the design, what are the next steps?
• What is the first thing to happen on site - what needs to be organised before you can start on the build
• Overview of the steps from foundations to roof finishes on a traditional build
• The process of building a tiny house
• Ways to save during the build
• How to prepare for the building stage

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At Selfbuild Extend & Renovate Live Belfast 2024, DJ Rasdale of Build Cost Estimations runs through a real life example of costing a build from start to finish, and provides an update on how much it costs to build a house in Ireland today, including:

· Labour and material costs as of September 2024

· Cost estimations: how they’re put together

· Details of a costed project in NI

· Direct labour versus main contractor: how much can you save?

· Project details: issues with foundations and how much they set the project back

· Variations during the build, PC Sums

· Kitchen costs, ways contractor saved money on the project

· Budget busters and best value-for-money ways to cost a project

· Traditional (concrete blockwork) vs timber frame vs ICF vs SIPs: how they compare cost wise

· Heat pump with underfloor heating costs

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In Part 1 of a four part series about build costs in Ireland, quantity surveyor Keith Kelliher sheds light on how much you can expect to pay for your windows and doors including:

· Why is one house 50k and another 15k for the windows and doors?

· Types of windows and doors products available to self-builders in Ireland

· How windows and doors are costed

· Costs per sqm for different types

· Costs off the shelf versus bespoke

· Regs for fire doors plus notes on costs

· Ironmongery costs

· Watchpoints for windows and doors

· Dangers of costing a house based on averages

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