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Editor @selfbuildire magazine - views expressed here my own. #oneoffhousing #selfbuild DMs open

Ireland
Joined March 2017
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No notice from @ESBNetworks that they would be doing work on Main Street in Portarlington today - to add to the bad form, the work knocked out the broadband on most of the street. @Digiweb_Ireland raised a ticket with @eir so @eir … please fix asap🙌
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How much work/paper goes into a planning application for 1 rural house! What a waste of time & paper printing this in 2021! We need online applications ASAP
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We are researching air quality and health benefits of retrofitted homes before and after works. If your house is a BER rating C or less and you'd be happy to complete a 10-min health questionnaire please go to tinyurl.com/yrhnap2m and enter your details. @ResearchatNUIG
"HIGHLY DECEPTIVE" is the first line of the description 🤩👹🥳
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I've been working on a video project for college about how the #coronavirus has been impacting #selfbuild in #ireland - share your stories, DMs are open :) thecircular.org/building-sit…
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I made a silly parody of Disney+ Ireland @DisneyPlusIRE and apparently it was too realistic for Disney/Twitter to handle. Here are some of the illicit tweets in case the account doesn’t come back as they’ve deleted its followers. (A thread) – at Wandsworth, London
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💬 This is the last week to #HaveYourSay on the future direction of sustainable mobility in Ireland. To find out more about this public consultation and how to make your submission please visit bit.ly/36g9CNd Closing date is this Friday the 28th of February.
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What's your favourite weather phrase? Any others?
60%Soft day (thank god)
40%It's lashing
0%I'm drownded
0%Desperate poxy weather
5 votes • Final results
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"Who gives us assurance that what the Assigned Certifier says is correct?" Clearly no one - all Building Control asks for are documents signed by the AC. Opt-in system is unregulated self-certification. Time to resource local auth and let Building Control sign off on new builds.
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Is themself now ok to use instead of him/herself ?
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The diction of fiction. 📕 Read more: wef.ch/2oCdW9D @wefbookclub
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Do the new @HousingPress #nzeb Regulations for #energy and #ventilation apply to #extensions? It depends, says architect Daniel Coyle in the upcoming edition of @selfbuildire magazine out 1st November (when NZEB regulations come into force). Excerpt: selfbuild.ie/advice/faq-new-…
2020 Applications Open - Apply for 35% funding to retrofit your home - bit.ly/2VoFwDu #heatpump #deepretrofit
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I went full energy geek on this month's @selfbuildire Podcast talking about residential solar PV, feed-in-tariffs and Ireland's Climate Action Plan - have a listen here or on Spotify @madclaff @ire_isea soundcloud.com/selfbuild-ire… soundcloud.com/selfbuild-ire…
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irishtimes.com/opinion/the-i… "The recentralisation of power erodes the hard work and expensive tribunals that went into creating a strong and credible planning system and puts control back again into the hands of ministers and civil servants. Most critically, it sidelines democracy."