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Dublin Welder
01 864 5512
North Inner City · D1 & D7 · 25 min

The Stoneybatter terrace welder.

Smithfield, Stoneybatter, Phibsborough, Cabra and out to the markets quarter. Twenty-five minutes from the workshop via the North Road, longer if there's a Bohs match at Dalymount. The housing stock here is mostly Victorian and Edwardian terraces — fleur-de-lys railings, mortise-locked iron gates that were last serviced when De Valera was in office, and a steady stream of RSJ knock-throughs on side-return extensions.

Morning shot of a Stoneybatter terrace — fleur-de-lys railings along a brick plinth, painted black, Georgian fanlight above a hall door

Streets we work most weeks

Stoneybatter, Manor Street, Aughrim Street, Prussia Street and the streets clustering around the Bull-Alley Park area generate most of the D7 calls. D1 is mostly Smithfield, the markets, and the new-build apartment fit-outs around Coke Lane. The patterns:

  • Stoneybatter / Manor Street — Edwardian terrace boundary railings, mortise-lock gate work
  • Phibsborough / Cabra — 1920s artisan-dwelling cottages, side-gate replacement, small-scale fabrication
  • Smithfield apartments — fit-out balustrade, fire-escape compliance work, commercial-tenant kitchen stainless
  • The markets quarter (Mary's Lane / Capel Street) — small commercial bin-store enclosures and shopfront shutters
  • Grangegorman TUD campus periphery — student-accommodation fit-out work on subcontract
  • The Phoenix Park gates — periodic conservation-led railing repairs (sub-contracted via the OPW maintenance contractor)

What a north inner-city call actually needs

  • Georgian / Edwardian railing repairs. The fleur-de-lys top, the ball-finial top, and the simple bar-and-rail top. Most need a section replaced after kerbside damage, hot-dipped to match.
  • Iron mortise-lock gate repair. Original cast-iron mortise locks bind every July with the heat; we strip, file, and re-shim. Where the lock is beyond salvage we'll fit a discreet modern Yale euro-cylinder behind the original face-plate.
  • Side-return RSJ retrofits. The Victorian-terrace specialty. Knocking through the back wall for a kitchen extension means a beam over the new opening, propped while it goes in. Engineer-spec'd, EN 1090 cert on completion.
  • Fire-escape repair on apartment buildings. Coke Lane and Smithfield apartments built in the 2000s are starting to show fire-escape rust where the galv has worn through. Tread-attachment and stringer repair, done with the fire-officer's spec in mind.

Conservation-officer work

About a quarter of D1/D7 fabrication jobs need a sign-off from the Dublin City Council conservation officer. Replacing a section of original Georgian railing isn't a matter of "any black bar of similar diameter" — the pattern, the proportions, the finial profile have to match what's there or what was there historically. We have a small archive of patterns from previous jobs and we CAD-trace from a surviving section before fabricating.

  • CAD-traced from a surviving section or a photograph (front-on, scaled)
  • Hot-dipped finish in standard "Dublin black" RAL 9005 with a satin not gloss top-coat
  • Pre-application meeting with the conservation officer where the work is non-standard
  • Photo documentation supplied for the post-completion file

Typical response time

  • Weekday 08:00 – 17:00: average 3 hours from confirmed booking (M50 + city-centre cordon dependent)
  • Same-day in 40% of cases received before 11am
  • Saturday morning: workshop drop-offs only

Services available across D1 & D7

Conservation-led work welcome

If the council needs
a pre-application meeting, we'll attend.

Most of our D7 fabrication work passes the conservation officer's eye. We're used to the process and have a small archive of original railing patterns.

01 864 5512