Once the plaster is dried completely, the house can be spray painted. The advantage of painting before the second fix electrical is sockets and plugs don’t have to be protected. Spray painting is the quickest way to get maximum coverage. There is a fair bit of preparation with protecting and taping around the windows, our …
We now have rooms with a roof. Although the wall panels are trusses are made offsite, the trusses, decks, gutters and parapet need to be assembled and crafted onsite. Great care was taken by Irish ecohomes to get all the details right, from the falls in the gutter to the slope in the parapet, to …
The architecture of our home is unfurling like a brave spring flower in a light-soaked field. As the scaffolding is taken down, the beautiful form of the building is emerging and it’s love at first sight for us. There was lots of local inspiration that helped guide our design. All the trees in this part …
10mm may not seem much when you’re drawing a design at a desk, but on site 10mm it’s a lot, especially with window reveals and precision façade details. I’m sure I have the heads wreaked of our façade team, trying to get all the reveal and recess details spot-on. But in fairness to them, they …
Our windows arrived on Monday morning at 8am, the artic truck made it to the bottom of the road, but it was too big to turn up. This was our ‘Grand Designs’ moment, where heads were scratched and questions asked on why such a big truck was sent. I left site, having been informed that …
It’s hard to believe the progress we’ve made in the past month since the arrival of our home. It’s been non-stop trying to keep up with the coordination of trades and we’ve had lots of visitors too coming for the first peak. We’re getting to know the spaces, observing the light at various times of …
We’ve had a lot of curious visitors to site this week, with one passer by saying, ‘Wow, it’s like Adult lego!’. Timber frame assembly is a matrix of numbers and unique parts that would be the dream of any puzzle lover. It’s amazing how the systemisation comes together. I was enthusiastic about timber frame before, …
My stomach was sick with excitement on the first morning of the timber frame assembly. If I was a child again, I guess it would have been the ultimate Christmas morning without the reindeers and Santy. Irish Eco Homes brought our presents on trailers and trucks. It felt like one of the best days of …