Life on the Avenue

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Architectural salvage!

Today we went on the hunt for bricks. We had a wander around an Architectural Salvage yard in Kingswood. I wasn't too interested in the bricks but I did see an interesting old Dublin lamp that would look great in the front garden!

Above pic is of the salvage yard worker pulling some salvaged bricks so that Ciaran could match them to bricks that are needed for the front elevation.

Monday, 16 January 2012

Any comments or questions?!

Hi Readers,

Thank you so much for reading this blog. From my statistics provided by Google I can see that this blog is reaching people all over the world including people in the following countries, The Netherlands, England, USA, Spain, Russia, Belgium, Ukraine, Norway & Germany and of course Ireland! Wow, quite amazing!

If anyone has any questions/comments about the building works or anything else that they have read on the blog, please comment below and I will be happy to answer them in public here on the blog. I'd also be very interested in publishing any suggestions anyone would like to make.

Thanks again for reading!

Enid

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Site visit - 13th Jan 2012

Ciaran leading a tour by an Architectural Book Club.

View from the original top landing, looking back to the bathroom and the artist's studio. A glass cantilevered staircase will be to the left - gosh, sounds difficult!!!!

Construction worker cleaning and preparing the original brick rear elevation wall to be repointed.

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

New Year and we are back in Ireland!

We arrived back in to Dublin at 7am, after two fantastic flights with Delta Airlines, yesterday morning. After a short sleep we headed over to view developments. A lot had been done while we were holidaying in the States and Ciaran was pleased with progress. We stayed on site for about an hour while Ciaran answered questions from the foreman and also explained parts of the build. Today he was straight in to work to do further procurement and also to draw up further plans to assist the builders.

Ciaran answering questions that the builders had about certain details.

Back wall will be made of glass - it will sit close to the old stone wall!

The view from the second bedroom.

Ciaran explaining a detail to the builders.

Standing on the wrap-around element of the design, facing back to the house and the courtyard.

I was asked by a friend the other day who were the builders. They are M&S Building Contractors - please contact me if your are doing a building project and you need to contact them!

Saturday, 7 January 2012

Gone fishing!

Yesterday we went on a half day fishing trip on the Tortugua IV. The weather was perfect and we even managed to catch dinner! Today is our last day so when I get home I will begin to blog again about the house and get a few pics up of the building work.

I'm sure lots has been done in the last 3 weeks - I'm looking forward to seeing the progress!!