Thursday 17 April 2014

Ground Floor Works & New Water Mains

Ground floor works continue to progress quickly. The concrete slab in the centre of each room/hallway has now had Kingspan insulated board installed on top and more Leca Insufill has been added around it with limecrete mixed in. The floor is now at a single level. The next step is to allow the limecrete to dry for a few weeks before the underfloor pipework is installed.







Front room:

Rear room:



A little frustrating was the council's decision to run new lengths of water pipe up St. Mary's Road, in front of the house this week. After last year spending a few days running water all the way from Yorke Street at the very back of the garden! The council are only running pipe to everyone's front door, and responsibility to connect the house to the mains left with the owner. The good news is that my builders were on site on the day they were working outside and I now have water running in the front door to a location under the stairs. :)
Apparently the pipework under the road, feeding the stopcock at the back of the house was lead; after all the effort that was put in to replace the lead pipework under the garden/mews. No leads poisoning is always a plus...




















1 comment:

  1. Isn't that always the case - and I do mean always. You go through great time, trouble and expense to run new water piping in from the existing water hookup in Yorke Street and then the city decides to install it right outside your front door. I know I shouldn't be laughing but, sorry - I am. It's either that or scream, cry and throw a hissy fit and that's a waste of time. Fun, but a waste of time. Interesting that such a decision was made by the city planners - wonder what led to it. And did you receive any notification of hearings, etc. before they went ahead with the project? Maybe they do things differently in your country than here. Here we do receive notifications of such proposed projects and have an opportunity to attend the hearings and enter our two cents worth before the County Board or City Board votes on the proposal. Because, of course, property owners end up paying for at least part of the project through an assessment that is added to our real estate tax bills, and it's paid off yearly in installments, typically over 5 to 10 years, depending on how much it is. It may be quite different in Ireland. Have been curious as to whether a lot of other homes were changing hands around the time you bought your Georgian row house and whether a lot of restorations were going forward in the area in general. There may have been some pressure applied on the politicians from the property owners to improve the water system and get rid of the old lead pipes.

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