🔥Carlow project coming to and end full restoration with new cut and slated roof.
The team really enjoyed this and it shows in the finish 👏 🔥💪💪
🔥stoneybatter Job near completion🔥
On this Job we went a little out of our lane with a full restoration
Full interior renovation
Rewire
Fully plumbed
And new slate roof
We fully repointed the beautiful brickwork in Natural lime
And replastered the rear with a fantastic ashlar finish.
We always try salvage as much as possible so we retained to old floor that was beautifully restored and of course the old cast iron bath will be used many times again by the client.
Thanks to the client Anne for her patience and vision
A special home for a special lady đź’•
In with the Lads today @designdecordublin at the trade show in the RDS
The lads had a fantastic insight into what suits your Home with the correct materials which is key in protected and listed buildings
There knowledge and skill is always a comfort to @mageeconservation when on our projects.
High end finish and a joy to deal with
See you on the next 1 lads
Another great day yesterday @blfireland and great opportunity to present and showcase our project on the Iveagh Trust.
Super insight by the excellent @michalkosciak
and @bolton7038
Also to be in a room with our peers and like minded people who share a passion for Conservation and the use of traditional materials with great Craftpeople.
Some brilliant presentations on show.
Excellence in Business 2 years running with my nephew Jamie accepting the Award on behalf of the Company
Always delighted to be recognised in this capacity.
John
Conservation works on a new Project in Co.Carlow.
Full new cut roof and reslating in new Blue Bangor.
Restoring the original trusses internally with a complete repointing on the facade with a beautiful flush finish.
This building will be a much needed addition for special needs children so really looking forward to see it finished ✅️
Main Contractor Martin Reddins Construction.
In the Vast lands of the Guinness brewery you can just feel the history in every corner you turn.
From the house of Artur Guinness to the Hop houses we are privileged to say we had a hand though a small one in retaining the beautiful fabric of this legacyđź‘Ź
#Guinness
#Diagio
#restoration
#Conservation
#brickwork
🔥This stunning Portico on the land of Jameson Distillery🔥
High level protection this morning with the Lads from CSL scaffolding to prevent any loose stone falling and we will be back in spring for full restoration.
John
Absolutely delighted how this turned out
McDaids pub Dublin Central
On this project we stripped off old shop front as it wasn't original and replaced with all new joinery.
We restored the stain glass windows and had the main sign done by hand in gold leaf.
All the windows reveals were stripped of cement mortar and remoulded with prompt roman cement.
Lions heads recasted in studio by the wonderfully talented Kojack đź‘Ź
Then full paint job by the best in the business Design Decor 👌 🙌
The Iveagh Trust housing complex on Dublin’s Patrick Street is undergoing the most comprehensive conservation-led refurbishment since it was constructed over 100 years ago. These famous buildings, with their cliff-like massing of red brick and decorative mouldings marching down the hill to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, comprise one of the most ambitious rehousing schemes ever undertaken in Dublin, financed and constructed c.1901-04 by the generosity of the Guinness family, who are still involved in the Trust today.
The exterior envelope of the estate is being repaired, block by block, under the skilled hands of Magee Conservation, who have been working on the complex for several years, developing a deep understanding of its construction, materiality and defects.
One of the most extraordinary revelations about the project is the unique combination of materials originally used to form the array of moulded and decorative components in the façades such as corbels, platbands, sills and capstones. All these features are not cast terracotta expected of a building of this date, but are in fact made from shuttered clinker concrete that was given a fine skim of red pigmented render to give the impression of more expensive terracotta. A slice of this mix, devised for economy by the London architects Joseph & Smithem (who also designed Guinness Trust buildings in London) is featured in our photographs. It may be familiar to some readers who live in Stoneybatter-type homes whose internal and garden walls are cast from a similar mix.
Conservator Michal Kosciak and colleagues have been overseeing repairs that include localised brick replacement, re-skimming of defective red render finished with colour-matched paint, re-casting of window sills, and cleaning of cast-iron window guards. Most of the original detailing has proved remarkably robust, including chimneys, gutters and the stupendous timber pinnacles rising from the copper domes which, incredibly, are the original Norwegian oak specimens, still in perfect condition.
It’s testament to the custodianship of the Iveagh Trust and the conservation team that the complex will soon be fit to face another century in use.
