Cloneyhurke House is a two storey over basement country house built in the late 1700s. Mid West Lime were engaged to construct a living dining area to the rear of the house and carry out re-roofing, insulation, new sliding sash windows, stone front entrance rebuild and addition and plaster repairs externally and internally. Country House […]
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Roof and external facade restoration / refurbishment to Roche Castle Roche Castle was built in the late 1800s. It had been extended in the 1960s. The building had been derelict for over 30 years. The scope of work for Mid West Lime as Main Contractors for the works was stone replacement of many of the carved
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Refurbishment / Restoration of Fountain: The Countess Dunraven Fountain in Adare Co. Limerick The Countess Dunraven Fountain restoration proved to be a most challenging project. The location of the site within the centre of Adare village brought with it certain restrictions which had to be overcome. The works were completed by our team without
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Mid West Lime were PSCS on this challenging project of Mausoleum Stabilisation works. A section of the external wall of a brick and stone-built mausoleum had suffered extensive movement as a result of major vegetation and a sycamore tree growing on the vaulted roof structure. The tree had been cut and the roots injected some
This project involved the reconsolidation, repair and harling of the rear and side elevation walls of Goggin Cottage, Kildimo, Co. Limerick for the Irish Landmark Trust. This is believed to have been constructed in the 1600.Water penetration caused washout of the inner core of the exterior walls. Along with this the old thatch roof
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This project was run as part of REPS under supervision of the Heritage Council . The building secured funding to remove the existing roof and replace damaged rafters and lathes and to relay the salvageable slates along with some replacement salvaged slate. Parging was then carried out to the underside of the slates using a
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This chapel was in danger of collapse, particularly the belfry which had ivy removed from it the previous year. The brief for this project was to record the profile of the wall head, remove any vegetation and debris and to relay any loose stones in lime mortar bed. Any missing mortar from the joints along
Flaunching of wall head of a 17th Century Chapel, Strokestown, Co Roscommon. Read More »
We were involved in the roof repair and masonry repointing to the higher level ashlar masonry to the Aula Maxima part of the Quadrangle building in NUI Galway. This involved removing coping stones to insert a copper damp course to both gables, inserting stainless steel ties along the coping stones to prevent the stones sliding
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The Old Army Barracks in Ennis is situated on the riverbank of the Fergus River. The building had lain empty for years and had been in a poor state of repair. Mid West Lime Ltd won the contract to carry out the patch pointing to the external facades and to repair the rubble masonry that
Mid West Lime were the nominated subcontractors for this project, the raking out and re pointing of St Bridgets Church, Templebraden, Pallasgreen, Co Limerick This project involves the raking out of inappropriate sand and cement pointing that is not original to the structure and re pointing in a mortar that matches the original mortar. There
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