A good percentage of our work is with emigrants from the UK and the US returning to Ireland, either with renovating/extending older properties or entire new houses. With Brexit looming large on the horizon together with Trump; I can only Read More …
This post is part of the ArchiTalks series where a group of us (architects who also blog) all post on the same day and promote each other’s blogs. The Topic ‘Leader’ for this post ‘House or Home’ is Jeff Pelletier… Read More …
Following on from the ‘The Americans are like us, but they are different: Framing vs Cavity walls’ post; I was getting ready to criticise the level of insulation in US framed walls compared to that in the UK and Ireland Read More …
The order of these posts has been a bit haphazard as this US/UK difference is a big one – Framing vs cavity walls Even with the advantages that timber frame houses have with regards to airtightness, the cavity wall still Read More …
Continuing the ‘Americans are like us but different posts’ and the previous post on Metric vs Imperial Units this post continues the units theme as there are big differences between how the UK/Ireland and the US handles Thermal Resistance. The Read More …
This follows on from the post about Mud Rooms and Utility Rooms and the differences between UK/Ireland and the US Really I should have done this post first, the biggest difference between me working on UK drawings and those from Read More …
I love it when I can feel a series of blog posts starting and I feel this one has legs. I’ve been very lucky over the last year working for a US company producing drawings for architectural projects in the Read More …
Over the last few months I’ve been working on some interesting projects in the US. What’s interesting is that I haven’t left my home in rural County Mayo. All the files have been exchanged online dynamically in the cloud, we’ve Read More …
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