The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:21 pm**

Just wanted a little advice. To add to the 'Irish Portfolio'

Im looking at a derelict building. It in a nice aspect, 4 acres ,river bordering the rear, and a road to the frontage. It 3 acres laid straight, IYKWIM, so the frontage and rear is 3 acres long-ish.
The house on it is just a shell, the roof has been off for some time, the inner floors are just about gone.
If I can save the shell, what common problems would I find? As we used to do new build with the roof off through some of the worst bits of winter, would the condition of this one look as dire as it seems?

If all else fails, I can rebuild without too much hassle from planning as I'm replacing existing, but I'd like to keep the look of this one as its 'Georgian' style (well as Georgian as you get in Eire). High windows, nice faÃ§ades around the reveals, good wall around the garden too. Im OK on new build, but not too hot on refurb/replacement stuff ,so could do with the BC's wiser knowledge on this one.

So, what do you guys think? ???

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:29 pm**

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Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 8:32 pm**

Far cheaper to knock it down and rebuild in the same style due to being zero vat rated. Doing up a shell is always more expensive than new build like for like although it has a certain romantic appeal to it. Also it's much harder to fit renewable systems that planning will ask for to existing buildings.

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:16 pm**

Cheers guys, its just in the inception stages ATM. It might be a rebuild, but the shell is solid (not an engineers opinion

) and looks good.
I thought I could crack on with the interior if it was a go-er rather than putting it back to demo and rebuild. It has a nice look. The roof has been replaced at some stage, but had a tree go through it a few years ago, its well knackered, but has had some sort of weather proofing up to that point.
I'm not too worried about renewable systems, the planning might be, but I'll try to avoid that if I can. Seems like a highway to nowhere with heat recovery pumps and the like, when you do the maths, it only works out viable if it doesn't go tits in its lifetime :laugh:

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 9:57 pm**

Any building going through planning now which yours will be has to have a certain amount of carbon neutrality built into it including renewables. If you go ahead without planning you'll never be able to remortgage it sell it or insure it

Posted: **Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:14 pm**

No, not trying to do it without, but rather trying to circumvent most of the stuff they will require. I know it wont happen with their approval, fact of life Pablo.

The Brew Cabin

Doing up a derelict.