{"id":90047,"date":"2025-09-28T03:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90047\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:31:15","slug":"weve-seen-people-save-half-of-what-they-were-quoted-tv-eco-builder-says-self-building-can-help-solve-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/90047\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019ve seen people save half of what they were quoted\u2019 \u2013 TV eco-builder says self-building can help solve housing crisis"},"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\">RT\u00c9\u2019s Harrison Gardner says Irish people need to reclaim skills of the past\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Presenter Harrison Gardner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2, presenter Harrison Gardner, Profile.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)\">Presenter Harrison Gardner<\/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 TV building expert has said Irish people need to rediscover the forgotten construction skills of their ancestors as a way of getting over the current housing crisis.<\/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)\">Harrison Gardner has just helped several families build their own homes for season two of Build Your Own Home, which starts on RT\u00c9 One on Wednesday, October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9\u2019s Harrison Gardner says Irish people need to reclaim skills of the past Presenter Harrison Gardner A TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,3847,8752,19,17,2188,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-90047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-housing-crisis","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-laura-lynott","15":"tag-rte"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90047","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=90047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}