Room to Improve

They bought their home at the end of the property boom and now it's worth less than they paid for it.

Dermot is in Timahoe, Portlaoise with Dolores and Donal O'Connell. Their five children are all grown-up but still live in the area.

Cathy and Michael Keane bought their house when it was being used as a cowshed. They converted it, had four children and over the years Dad, Michael, has added on bits to it.

Declan and Judy Cadwell from Clontarf share a small terraced home with their three sons, Christopher 19, Ross 17 and Jake 13. But only just.

Marie Duffy moved into her Victorian townhouse off the South Circular Road four years ago. Her friends all thought she was mad to buy it because there was so much work to be done.

Dermot encounters a stumbling block or two when he turns his hand to a badly laid out bungalow in Co Offaly.

A young couple with three children seek Dermot's help in revamping their small three bedroomed bungalow in Ballinteer Ailish.