{"id":464495,"date":"2026-05-02T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464495\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T06:09:11","slug":"builder-who-boasted-about-work-on-room-to-improve-withdraws-from-mediation-with-couple-in-nightmare-extension-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/464495\/","title":{"rendered":"Builder who boasted about work on \u2018Room to Improve\u2019 withdraws from mediation with couple in \u2018nightmare\u2019 extension project"},"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\">Mocklers went public to expose their financial loss after alleged unsatisfactory work\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter and Rois\u00edn Mockler in the unfinished extension at their home in Donabate, Co Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/137e9e9f-5518-4083-ab36-89c4b1d3ba27.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)\">Peter and Rois\u00edn Mockler in the unfinished extension at their home in Donabate, Co Dublin. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/p>\n<p>Conor Feehan 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)\">A couple who went public to expose their financial loss after alleged unsatisfactory work by a builder say they are offended after receiving a legal letter saying he is withdrawing from mediation.<\/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)\">Peter and Rois\u00edn Mockler detailed their story in the Irish Independent on March 28 after engaging Ashmark Homes to carry out an extension and renovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mocklers went public to expose their financial loss after alleged unsatisfactory work Peter and Rois\u00edn Mockler in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2088,9,10,2518,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,1181,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-464495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-amy-molloy","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-conor-feehan","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-rte","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116503496257594380","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}