{"id":404654,"date":"2026-04-18T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404654\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:06:15","slug":"we-were-left-having-to-pay-the-full-costs-of-their-mistakes-couple-sue-builders-on-rtes-room-to-improve-over-water-damage-to-their-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404654\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We were left having to pay the full costs of their mistakes\u2019 \u2013 couple sue builders on RT\u00c9\u2019s \u2018Room to Improve\u2019 over water damage to their home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Family left heartbroken after their dream renovation became a nightmare\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The house at Athgarvan, Co Kildare, renovated by Nessa and David Conlon on 'Room to Improve'. Photo: RT\u00c9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8fc12b43-0800-4d74-8d7c-04a2c6e9b055.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The house at Athgarvan, Co Kildare, renovated by Nessa and David Conlon on &#8216;Room to Improve&#8217;. Photo: RT\u00c9<\/p>\n<p>Shane Phelan and Amy Molloy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Nessa Conlon got the call to say the house she and her husband David planned to renovate had been picked for RT\u00c9\u2019s Room to Improve, she nearly crashed the car such was her excitement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In an interview after the \u20ac295,000 project was completed, she said having a home designed by architect Dermot Bannon had been a pipe dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family left heartbroken after their dream renovation became a nightmare The house at Athgarvan, Co Kildare, renovated by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15008,60404,61,60,6085,9657,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-404654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-amy-molloy","9":"tag-dermot-bannon","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-rte","13":"tag-shane-phelan","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}