by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts, Irish Examiner, Project Management
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes looks at how you can self build and project manage your own new home build. Is direct labour a possibility for our self build when we live 2 hours from the site and how things operate on site with us as project...
by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts, Irish Examiner, Site Surveys
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes looks at how renovating a home can provide a few unexpected and new challenges. Q. In our recent renovation we paid a small fortune for external insulation, new windows, etc. The insulation came with regulations...
by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts, Site Surveys
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes provides advice for fixing cracks in the foundation. Q. We’re looking to buy a home in a settled area near national schools in Cork City’s southside. Our choice is more confined to older houses. Lots that we have...
by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes provides advice on the quickest and cheapest home improvements to cut your energy bills Q. we’ve just got our second massive electricity bill and we need help! I know we’re not alone, but this has left us...
by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts, Project Management
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes provides clarity on Builders, architects, QS and project managers. Who manages what when building a home? Q. Myself and my husband have a family site where we are planning to build our home. We have our finances...
by Kieran McCarthy | Jun 4, 2024 | All Blog Posts, Design Advice
This week in the Examiner, Kieran McCarthy of KMC Homes provides advice for the most-suitable extension to go with when adding to the ground floor? Q. We want to add a ground-floor extension, open up the kitchen to create the very popular kitchen/living/dining room...
