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Has anybody been passing the Wax Museum upstairs on the number 10 . .. and seen the tantilising georgain ionic column bearly veiwable through the hole in the facade? I’d love to see it uncovered. is there any plans for this site?
I can’t recommend one. But I can warn you Roofing contractors are completly untrustworthy. They are the worst of all the trades. I’ve just done up a geo. house in Dublin 1. My roof has 2 valleys carrying rain water over the house (worst design ever!)
I had to replace the aluminum valley with a Copper one. and despite going for the “premuim” option the damn thng is still leaking !The first roofer I burn’t a hole in my neighbours breathable membrane & i’ve rang the second one every day for the last 6 weeks – he won’t return my call to fix the “guaranteed” works on the valley.
It is not worth anything: but get references and ring them all. Try to physically oversee all their work.
I got the picture of the o’connel bridge (1928) in Closkys on Dominick Street. A really nice pub up at the Kings Inn end. Also the barman was adament that it was not the eucharist event in 1932 – which seems to have generated a different structure.
I think it would be good if all the old Dublin Pictures from this thread were complied somewhere on the site.
This is a photo of a photo of O’Connel bridge from 1928 from “civil week” or something the barman was telling me – I took it the other night in a pub I was in. I haven’t seen this photo before on the thread. . .. the big construction on the median of the bridge looks bizarre. . . anybody got a better version?
At the time the original windows were installed the timber was slow grown pine. the fast grown pine available today would be too soft. . . . which is why you have to use a hardwood.
I agree that I devalued the house. But only one of the houses on the street has sash windows, so I was just matching the rest of the street. – also I couldn’t afford the sash ones – as mentioned.
The real problem about PVC windows is the price. Nobody prefers them, but the price is so attractive . . . they are really cheap. I was pricing windows for my georgian house they are approx 1.7 metres tall * 1 metre wide. 1 over 1.
For PVC they were EUR 200 each.
For hardwood sash replacements they were EUR 950 each. 😮
Also to get the old windows renovated and fixed up was around EUR 900 each also.So for my house it was 8k vrs. 1.6k (double glazed)
I’m afraid I sold out – I’m not happy about it. It was a financial decision. Don’t hate us PVC people. 😉
I was in Closkeys on Dominick St (nice old pub) at the weekend. There is a black and white picture of o’connell bridge with a big white building on the bridge. What is it. I hadn’t seen it before.
Anyone know where I could access Gardiners Dublin 1991, a 60 page pamhlet It was missing from 45 Merrion sq when I was there.
The chemical treatment thing puts a layer of DPC into the walls to stop the damp rising. I imagine your basement is a random stone build and the upper floors are brick – so this is not an option in your house. the injected layer will only work on a brick construct – the people who install it are unaware of this. It is due to the way it seeps through the mortar layer. . . but there is no such layer with random stone.
Is the flagstone floor causing a damp problem ? it shouldn’t coz the damp should be evaporating through the joints . .. is the place heated and ventilated?
You should replace the timber floor with a new one. But you should not change it. I’d bet there are ventilation shafts to ventilate the underside of the timber floor if it is original. … but alas it is timber and will rot . . .lasted 200 years though . . .. .not bad.
Conservation is about replacing like for like. The Concrete floor will drive the water up the walls and damage the building in the long run – but maybe not in your life time. I should say i’ve put a concrete floor into my geo. basement – there was only earth there before it and it wasn’t deep enough to be cross ventilated for a timber floor which would have beent he best option for the house.
I’m renovating a geo house in D1. The basement at the back of the house had soil right up against it. this causes penatrating damp. So I dug a trench along the back of the house – I found a stone slab 4 feet under the surface, sloping away from the house, cusing rain to run into a cavity , the size of a coffin – this was part of the original build to deal with damp and keep the water away from the house. I think this is called a “french drain ” or a soak away.
