Ed Williams (40) and his partner Alannah Horne (36) bought a derelict house in Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6, last year in the hope of renovating it with the help of a Government grant.
Fast forward 18 months and the couple have only just begun building work after a drawn-out grant application process and a considerably larger construction bill than they had budgeted for.
“We got three quotes from three different builders, and one of them was double what we’d originally budgeted. The lowest was still significantly more, but we managed to stretch to that,” Williams says.
This is not the first time Williams, who works for a tech company in Dublin, has renovated a rundown property in the city – but the experience this time was vastly different.
The hallway of the house.
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