Roof Blows off Apartment Block!

January

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A major emergency operation is under way at an apartment block in south Co Dublin after the roof was blown off the building.

The incident occurred at an apartment complex at Carrickmines Manor on the Glenamuck Road.

Dublin fire brigade has four fire engines and a rescue unit at the scene. There are no reports of injuries.

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Three nearby buildings buildings have been evacuated.

Residents from the affected block are to be temporarily housed at local hotel. Over 20 people live in the block where roof came off.

The incident happened at 8.30am.

According to eyewitness David Cooney, gardaí have a cordon across the entrance to the complex.

The buildings are being evacuated until they can all be assessed.

Mr Cooney says he did not see any debris around - just the roof 'clean off' the building.

He is also living in a top floor apartment in the complex and says his building felt 'pretty shaky' this morning.

John Guckian, Senior Executive Officer with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's Environment Department, said he had never seen anything like this happen before.

Imagine sitting in your apartment while that's happening!! Scary stuff!

RoadKillTs

Link confusion

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PirateShampoo

Are these the new apartments built by Park Developments?

AnonoBoy

I knew a girl that blew a whole apartment block once.

January

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Are these the new apartments built by Park Developments?

Pierse Construction afaik?

The Saint

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I knew a girl that blew a whole apartment block once.

Pix and phone number or GTFO!!!

AnonoBoy

The Saint wrote: »

Pix and phone number or GTFO!!!

PM sent. Interestingly enough she works for Listerine now.

robbie_998

i was looking at that over here earlier.

i laughed when i saw they had 2 pics, one of the roof on the ground and then the other pic was off floods in galway :rolleyes:

CreepingDeath

Well, now they have a roof garden.

Wazdakka

What's the bets that if they can prove that the building was built to code, and there was no storm warning etc, that the insurance company will try fob it off as an act of god and not pay up.

something similar happened to a neighbours car.
Brand new jag, sitting in the driveway. Tree fell over.
WHOMP.. Jag-pancake.
Car insurance wouldn't cover it. Neither would the house insurance cause it was just outside the free standing garage thing he had.

DublinWriter

Headline should read Lid Blows off Shoe-box.

stovelid

Where any Munchkins injured by the roof?

Banter Joe

Three nearby buildings buildings have been evacuated.

I knew this would happen when we started putting the buildings in charge of other buildings. But did anybody listen?

Asmodean

Its a media cover up. It wasn't a storm that did it. Local reports indicate it was this culprit.

Sir Gallagher

Not surprising conidering some of the developments that have sprang up over the past years, shoddy.

K-9

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Not surprising conidering some of the developments that have sprang up over the past years, shoddy.

Shoddy workmanship Ted, Shoddy.

BaconZombie

Got to love the fake printed brick work.

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Not surprising conidering some of the developments that have sprang up over the past years, shoddy.

davyjose

adrieanne__x wrote: »

Imagine sitting in your apartment while that's happening!! Scary stuff!

Not if you live on the bottom floor.

"Fvckers upstairs, always bangin' about!!!!"

DevilsBreath

I wonder have they lowered the rent price hehe

Ally Dick

BOFH_139 wrote: »

Got to love the fake printed brick work.

Try saying that quickly after ten pints !

allanb49

Top floor apartment for sale, well ventilated, sky view.

Ally Dick

DevilsBreath wrote: »

I wonder have they lowered the rent price hehe

Some of those rental prices are eye watering. I'm assuming it's the builder who's renting them ?

utick

DevilsBreath wrote: »

I wonder have they lowered the rent price hehe

well they have less overheads now:D

twanda

The roof '' appeared to be made from plywood and MDF''

shoddy work indeed...

kravmaga

One of the residents was quoted on RTE news saying it concerned her the apartments were built so fast and she feels shoddy workmanship and materials are to blame.

But that was some hell of a wind last night/ this morning...

Think its Wyse Property Management who run the complex and Pierse Construction who built them.......

Bewleys Hotel in Leopardstown are getting a bit of extra business to house the residents for the next 2 days according to RTE news.

twanda

They're discussing it over on the property pin aswell.
Someone pulled up an old post from 2006, where the poster said they would be worried about the workmanship of Carrickmines Manor after they viewed the show apartment, which was full of leaks - bedroom floor was soaked and there was even a bowl in the living room to catch the drips :eek:

Run_to_da_hills

twanda wrote: »

The roof '' appeared to be made from plywood and MDF''

shoddy work indeed...

Flat pack apartment blocks :rolleyes:

byrner51

drove by this earlier crazy!!

red_bairn

Damn missed the side show! I work nearby @ the retail park

allanb49

robbie_998 wrote: »

i was looking at that over here earlier.

i laughed when i saw they had 2 pics, one of the roof on the ground and then the other pic was off floods in galway :rolleyes:

Some of those rent prices are through the roof,
cheap one there will be flooded with offers.....

jenny2hat

Technicalities should be taken up with Pierce construction me thinks... Weird how the roofs of other buildings wern't blown off.

Ally Dick

jenny2hat wrote: »

Technicalities should be taken up with Pierce construction me thinks

If it wasn't on the snag list, what would you expect them to do about it ?(joke)

pyramuid man

In fairness, I was surprised to see this as the headline on the news last night as with everything else that is happening with flooding in this country.
Seems a bit strange that hundreds of houses are being destroyed, and this takes precedence over the devastation of the floods.

Looking at this story reminded me of when a neighbours garage roof blew off!
What actually happened was that one windy morning he went to the garage, opened the door, rush of air and woosh!! the roof was gone!

I wonder if someone on the top floor opened a window or even the front door of the foyer! the small change in air pressure might have been all that was needed for lift off!

Come to think of it I think my neighbours roof was better constructed as the wind took the top 2 foot of the walls (where the holding down straps were) as well!

dublinhead

twanda wrote: »

They're discussing it over on the property pin aswell.
Someone pulled up an old post from 2006, where the poster said they would be worried about the workmanship of Carrickmines Manor after they viewed the show apartment, which was full of leaks - bedroom floor was soaked and there was even a bowl in the living room to catch the drips :eek:

Its never good when the show apartment is leaking! see post 5 in link below

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=38948

dublinhead

dublinhead wrote: »

Its never good when the show apartment is leaking! see post 5 in link below

http://www.askaboutmoney.com/showthread.php?t=38948

A bit like selling a secondhand car and there is a "deathrattle" when the engine is running!