Recent content by seanmoonye

detached 22x32 with upstairs in it.

Have you any pics of your setup?

Sorry.. just a quick one from yesterday morning as I was up dropping keys off and running late for work..lol So scratch coat of plaster is done on the front and the back of the garage.. weather put them off doing any more outside.. I also got the pedestrian door fitted yesterday and im...

Exactly.. Lights will be straight forward and we could maybe track the walls for the switches but its the sockets that will be the issue.. Here we would use a 20mm PVC conduit as standard, but I was maybe thinking of going with the galvanised conduit and galvanised sockets. I think the PVC...

I live about 1.5hours outside Belfast. I love Kilkenny, have a few friends there which I pop down and see. The hedges are a major pain trying to up keep them. The most of the hedges will be getting dug out and replaced round my house and garage as they have been there 50 years at least I...

We would normally track the walls and insert the conduit into the track and plaster over it. That's how the house is done. Things in the USA are different as most buildings are timber frame and you can hide everything behind the plasterboards.

Thanks lads.. Yeah very happy with the way it looks at the minute. Was very happy with the way the slate looked on the house and the garage. I still have about 800-1000 slates left over so may lead onto something else.. lol My only problem is at the minute is that, talking to the electrician...

Roof complete Plastering starts on the house and garage on Friday Things are progressing nicely.

Yes here in Ireland they are the most expensive way of covering your roof. Here unlike the USA we have a limited amount of roof covering materials that we have available as we have to import most of our materials like this. These are a Spanish natural slate (Vigo range) the other choice we...

It will be to the right hand side of the pedestrian door as you come in. I haven't got them to do that part yet, Im more worried about getting it water tight and plastered.

Trusses are stood, felt and lathed and slates were started yesterday. Its a great big space, and upstairs is going to be great aswell. Slating should be finished by Friday and then I just have to wait on the plasterers to come to do the house in a few weeks and get it all rubbed up...

Yeah there is 3 phase electric behind me as there is a tyre depo and fuel station just over the road from me. The roofers are starting work on the garage on Monday I think so should be water tight in 7-10 days. It seems to take ages as ive went for natural slate instead of the concrete...

Bit of progress made over the holidays. I was up at the site last night and the builder has both gables fully built and he is setting the wall plate this morning. Roofing next week.

Didnt get over last night but builder told me they have a load of blocks arriving this morning to start the gables so they got a good bit done yesterday. I have the pedestrian door ordered along with the house order which is arriving 16/01/17 The builder (Father in-law ) had a window he...

Planning restrictions. The garage has to finished on the outside the same as the house. So if I went with a timber frame it would still have to be clad in block so it could be rendered and my father in law is doing the building work so it was just as easy to build the whole thing in block.