Failing brick arch
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Failing brick arch

So I’ve got the 1880s solid brick house and one of the arches is failing. A lot of the house needs repointing severely and areas where it doesn’t has non lime mortar.

As seen in the pic, it’s bulging forward at the corner and the three bricks with a crack around them have dropped some. I’m theorising it needs raked and repointed with temporary support added to help those three drooped bricks back into place. Any thoughts? TYIA

ETA: added another pic in the comments below

u/SeriousIssuesHere — 4 days ago
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What are the goth teens up to?

I saw a small army of goth (I think) teens on Paul St this evening. What is going on??? I’m not joking the little gardaí riot van even came to arrest someone.

Claiming the food truck territory must be serious

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 11 days ago
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Douglas street project?

Does anyone know when that big douglas street + red abbey renovation project is supposed to start? I haven’t heard much on it for a while

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 16 days ago

What is going on at the immigration office? They are in crisis?

My spouse’s IRP renewal has been processing for months and there are people with several months past due. We are in a relatively good situation, but people are even losing out on jobs because the immigration office seems to be having some sort of meltdown internally and can’t handle renewals.

Does anyone know what’s up?

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 17 days ago

Conditions on approval

My mortgage was approved but there are a couple clauses that are required to complete before receiving the contractual loan offer. I won’t be able to complete those for maybe 5-6 weeks. Is this basically what it means when people say they have a condition to complete before drawdown? Or is this a bigger roadblock that’s going to impede my solicitor from doing any work

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 1 month ago

Compliance when removing load bearing wall

I’m looking to remove an internal load bearing wall. It was added about 10 years ago to support joists in the roof after an upgrade. With building control, is the idea for DIY that I would have an engineer design the wall and lintel etc, I follow the design, and the engineer sign off that I did?

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 2 months ago
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My husband and I were chilling in Bishop Lucey / Peace Park when this grown man with notably large ears came to harass us.

He pretended to take pictures of us repeatedly for a few minutes. (After a while he revealed it was a prank)

Before I knew it was supposed to be a joke, I was really scared we were being targeted as a gay couple. So my post is to say: if someone else goes through this with him and it feels like it might be a pattern, shoot me a DM

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u/SeriousIssuesHere — 2 months ago