Property Clinic: Options for getting the job done

Inflation and rising costs make completing building projects exceedingly difficult - but there are options for saving and delaying costs

Building Engineer Kieran McCarthy is the design & build director with KMC Homes, serving Cork and Limerick. He is also co-presenter of the RTÉ show Cheap Irish Homes. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Hi Kieran, hope you might give some advice, but this might be more financial? We have planning permission in the last year for a 2,100 sq ft house in a sort of ‘’H’ shape that planners seem to like right now. 

The problem is we haven’t the money now to finish it out because of rising costs. Should we start and go as far as we can? It’s a single story design with bedrooms in one half. We are renting at present, and have our first child, she’s two.