Resident construction expert John Corless chats about flash points to consider when building your home, including:
• Managing heat loss, U-values and airtightness
• Ventilation
• Insulation
• Space and water heating including thoughts on PV
• Intermediate floors
• Roofs
• Contracts
• List of other considerations: security, waste, health and safety, equipment hire, etc.
Michael Doherty of the Mica Action Group rounds up the talk with a chat about the ROI government’s remediation scheme to rebuild homes that were built with defective concrete blocks.
Michael talks about the skewed grant amounts, based on 2007 costings of house rebuilding costs by the Society of Chartered Surveyors of Ireland (SCSI), plus eligibility for Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grants.
He also discusses planning exemptions, retention amounts for contractors and what building methods mica affected homeowners are considering.
