Angry Rebel
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According to the Irish Examiner the bulldozers have actually moved in already! Presumably they want to try and have it ready for next season…
Agree with people re Cashel bypass, and, can someone tell me why the designers force southbound traffic to negotiate the roundabout at the northern end of the bypass? As it’s a “three pronged” roundabout, the southbound traffic could have skirted the side roundabout and joined the bypass 100/150m further along and not have to slow down and stop for the roundabout!?
Dopes.
Drove over a new bridge recently over what will be the new Fermoy bypass soon, it’s the first bridge at the Cork end of the new road. The road below looks very, very, very narrow….I fear there may be a c. 500m stretch of single carriageway in between a motorway and dual carriageway…can someone please tell me this won’t happen?
Doubt anything will happen on Ryanair and the old terminal very fast. For a start, the original plan called for it to be turned into offices, and they will need to make alternate arrangements if that changes (can’t imagine they need that much office space though!) You know the speed these bodies tend to move at…..
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, Ryanair will need to add a large number of routes to Cork to get the passenger numbers that would justify the refurb and rent of the old terminal. There is no guarantee that this will happen as they would be looking for a “suicide” deal similar to the one they got at Shannon (this involves shannon paying a net €1 for every passenger that flies instead of receiving several euro). You’d need to sell an awful lot of batter burgers and newspapers in the new terminal to make up the shortfall in revenue!!!
It’s not confined to Dublin, you may be relieved to note.
On the Airport Rd in Cork climbing from the Kinsale Rd roundabout to the airport, they have created a footpath that is about 6-7ft wide. The gap between it and the ditch is about 6-7ft of wasted space, so they have taken away the climbing lane rather than use the dead space. Again, inspired. The footpath is presumably for the large number of people now “living” in the area, i.e. the refugee centre on the old Kinsale rd Hotel site. These folk have a bus at their disposal and no longer walk up and down the road very much…..
On the Well Rd in Douglas, they are currently installing a footpath which is reducing the width of a narrow two lane road further. What’s even better about this one is that the footpath starts and stops in the middle of nowhere as private property makes the continuation of it impossible.
grrr…..
I think it was there or thereabouts, but I don’t think it was less than 22 deg.
There is no problem with headroom at all.
I’ve tried posting pictures for you, but the file sizes are too big and the board won’t let me. If you want to private message me your email address I’ll send you on a few.
I’m almost finished a similar extension, which had a lower than usual pitch as well, but it was a conventional pitched roof. We have been able to use two Velux windows, but the bulk of our natural light is coming from a glazed section over 2 French doors and adjacent windows which rises up to the eaves, so the whole wall is effectively glass. It didn’t end up being that expensive.
All we did was put a 100×100 (roughly) steel box section over the doors and windows and put the glazed sections on that. It isn’t big enough to be obtrusive and spoil the effect, but is enough structurally.
Owing to the low pitch we used tiles instead of slates as they were lighter and removed the need to have any collars running across inside to stop the roof spreading. They look fine outside, and avoid spoiling the open airy effect we have inside with no collars. We figured, you’ll spend more time inside enjoying your extension that outside staring at roofing materials!
Conclusion, If you can go for a pitched roof instead, you may get more light in, and there are ways around it being a very low pitch.
Radioactiveman has put his finger on it….when?!
No mention in any press release or blurb about timeframes or projected completion dates…
Very sympathetic job done to a mill on the road to Dunmanway, just short of Enniskeane/Ballineen. Can’t remember the name of it but any auctioneer worth their salt in that neck of the woods will know what you mean.
