New TV series features a Laois builder
The first show in a new TG4 series 'Na Builders' that features Ratheniska builder Dave Fingleton will be shown on Thursday 20 March.
A RATHENISKA based builder is to feature on the first show of a new TG4 series ‘Na Builders’.
With over 160,000 people employed in the construction industry in Ireland, ‘Na Builders’, which is an original, home-grown series for TG4 shines the spotlight on construction workers from across the country as they battle the elements - and occasionally each other - to get the job done.
In the first episode, which will be screened on Thursday 20 March at 9.30pm the show heads to Laois, to meet Dave Fingleton who has taken on a unique project in the Slieve Bloom Mountains building an extension onto a preexisting cottage.
Dave is based in Ratheniska. His company ‘Warm Home Construction’ specialises in super warm and super-insulated homes. It’s like lego with foam bricks in which you pour concrete into. He has been doing it for the last 15 years. He was doing regular building before that. He started out as a carpenter by trade and travelled the world – living in Canada and Korea among many other places.
As the series continues each Thursday night builders of all shapes and sizes, in rural and urbans settings, will be highlighted and looked at at what they are building and who they are building for and getting a real sense of where we are in building Ireland these days From bricklayers to electricians, plumbers to roofers, plasterers to carpenters these hard- working men and women are part of our everyday lives in Ireland. These will be their stories.
