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DEMAND FOR HOME extensions is up again, according to a building projects website which shows a 68% increase in people considering adding onto their houses.
The Home Improvement Index from Onlinetradesmen.ie also found a notable difference in prices for extending the home, depending on whether it is in Dublin or a rural area.
The national average cost for an extension stands at €981 per square metre, with the average for a rural area set at €908 per square metre. However in Dublin, the average costs is €1,069 per square metre – 15% more expensive than rural equivalents.
Nationally, the cost of extensions has increased by 3% in the first half of this year. The average spend per home extension was €25,495.
Though demand is up and costs are 27% higher than they were in 2009, there has still been a 39% drop since their peak in 2007.
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Dead right, spend your money before the government finds another reason to take it from you.
I’d spend it on blackjack and hookers
Forget the blackjack
Chewing sticky 5cent sweets on sailing crafts from Galway interesting the desires of some people … I have much worse vices …..
Just go straight to the hookers, I like your thinking. But blackjack will be handy in my free time when I’m not with the hookers.
Druids ..yes I hear Galway hookers are the best.
You only heard that, not from experience? Put it on your bucket list – they say there is nothing like riding the waves while your sailcloth bulges and the topmast groans under the strain – better than sex apparently.
Lots of house renovations happening all over Dublin. And scaffolding going up on many buildings in central Dublin. Houses half built in Clongriffin finally getting completed. Good to see this sector moving again
How can this be true?
I thought we were being bled dry, the crows were picking out our eyes and we are all doomed.
Can Sinn Fein please re-affirm how badly Ireland is doing and that disaster is around the corner, I’m starting to get worried economic growth is underway and so might not need to vote Sinn Fein in 2016 after all.
There doing it now before they have to pay for water building uses a lot of water ;)
Our kitchen wall is being knocked out as we speak.
Faulty gas tamperers ?
how gross of people spending money before they even get refund for Garth Brooks tickets?
Does “rural areas” mean everywhere outside dublin?
If you are engaging an architect in the process, please seek legal advice on any contract you are asked to sign. Could save you a lot of time / money / stress down the road.
Internet dating for builders.
A Great way to part with your hard earned cash.
Fools and their money ……
So is that 68% of a few thousand people who looked at this website? That’ll be lots and lots then
I’d say that the age profile of people at this site would be lower on average than people getting extensions.
You have to be lying to your self pretty convincingly or in a bubble to not notice the big jump in building work in Dublin this year.
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