Bray sea front railings

Del.Monte

The beach is so different to when I lived in Bray that it's quite mind blowing! Where those weeds are growing would have been a 20ft drop into the sea back then.

murpho999

I think the railing colours look very good.

Annasopra

murpho999 wrote: »

I think the railing colours look very good.

Looks great. I think that colour looks smart and much better than the old light blue.

WeleaseWoderick

Think the new railing colour looks great and look forward to the whole thing being finished.

Would be great too if they put the metal seatbacks on the wall down that end of the beach too. The ones on the south end look the business and the far end looks very bare with just the plain cement finish.

Alun

Isn't this the same colour as they've been painted all along in recent times? The old pale blue colour disappeared a few years ago IIRC.

WeleaseWoderick

Alun wrote: »

Isn't this the same colour as they've been painted all along in recent times? The old pale blue colour disappeared a few years ago IIRC.

When you see it in person, it's somewhere in between the recent dark colour and the older bright blue. A pretty good compromise!

Alun

WeleaseWoderick wrote: »

When you see it in person, it's somewhere in between the recent dark colour and the older bright blue. A pretty good compromise!

Ah, OK, it looked the same to me on the photo. I just hope they've done a really thorough job with the shotblasting and preparation work (anti-rust treatment, primer etc.) before putting on the final coat, and that it lasts a good few years.

murpho999

Alun wrote: »

Isn't this the same colour as they've been painted all along in recent times? The old pale blue colour disappeared a few years ago IIRC.

Looks lighter than the dark navy colour that was there before but darker than the older colour.

A good compromise.

Creamy Goodness

yup looks ever so slightly lighter, yet to see in person but looks great!

Annasopra

Alun wrote: »

Isn't this the same colour as they've been painted all along in recent times? The old pale blue colour disappeared a few years ago IIRC.

No. It's a bit lighter than the dark blue from before.

Zebbedee

Zebbedee wrote: »

Surely better than a tiny selection of council officials deciding the colour scheme of our seafront railings?

Looks like I'll have to eat my own words.
I quite like the new colour.
Not as much as I liked the sky blue but it's a step in the right direction.
Well done Wicklow County Council.

B0jangles

I was just down there again and I found a flake of the dark blue paint so I went and brought it down to the newly painted section to compare the two:



There's even a peep of the light blue in there as well

fortwilliam

This was taken circa 1980/81;

Zebbedee

fortwilliam wrote: »

This was taken circa 1980/81;

I do vaguely remember the paint fading all right.
I'm not sure if it faded to such a light shade of blue though, could be the pigments fading in the photograph ink perhaps.
Thanks for posting nonetheless.
It shows the importance of regular maintenance.

Zebbedee

The work seems to have halted.

fortwilliam

I had a look at the completed work towards the harbour side.
I hate to be negative, but the work is frankly..dreadful.
There are missed spots, solidified drips hanging on the underside (from using too much paint)
The line between the railing and the "ball" on top is smudged and crossed over.
The new paint is already peeling due to the surface not being primed correctly.
Drips on the ground.

I can only hope the work has halted while they replace the contractor.

Thargor

I was thinking that aswell, complete amateur hour, some really dodgy concrete pouring down there aswell, those built in seats and some blank grey walls that look totally out of place.

CeilingFly

Zebbedee wrote: »

The work seems to have halted.

Holidays - most construction / trades workers take two weeks holiday between late July & late August. This year many sites started their holidays just before the Bank holiday weekend and return on Monday / Tuesday next.

murpho999

CeilingFly wrote: »

Holidays - most construction / trades workers take two weeks holiday between late July & late August. This year many sites started their holidays just before the Bank holiday weekend and return on Monday / Tuesday next.

I think the work is stopped longer than that.

Zebbedee

It seems to have taken an incredibly long time to do a small section of the railings. I didn't see them working on it but it must have been a small number of crew. At that rate of progression it'll be 2019 before its finished!

Calibos

Zebbedee wrote: »

It seems to have taken an incredibly long time to do a small section of the railings. I didn't see them working on it but it must have been a small number of crew. At that rate of progression it'll be 2019 before its finished!

At this rate it'll be like the Golden Gate Bridge in SF. ie. Its perpetually being repainted. It takes so long to repaint that by the time they get to the end of the bridge its time to start repainting the other end again.

sy_flembeck

fortwilliam wrote: »

I had a look at the completed work towards the harbour side.
I hate to be negative, but the work is frankly..dreadful.
There are missed spots, solidified drips hanging on the underside (from using too much paint)
The line between the railing and the "ball" on top is smudged and crossed over.
The new paint is already peeling due to the surface not being primed correctly.
Drips on the ground.

I can only hope the work has halted while they replace the contractor.

Was on the prom for a walk earlier and decided to inspect the work up close. You're right, it's absolutely appalling. Really shoddy workmanship. Pity

vince

Has this project come to and end.

B0jangles

There was a small team painting the railings yesterday but it was nowhere near as organised as the previous work - no tent for sandblasting or anything, just 4 men in overalls with paintcans sitting on the ground painting away.

Dr Strange

B0jangles wrote: »

There was a small team painting the railings yesterday but it was nowhere near as organised as the previous work - no tent for sandblasting or anything, just 4 men in overalls with paintcans sitting on the ground painting away.

Today as well. Their plastic sheet they were sitting on blew against the freshly painted railings at some stage.

gerbilgranny

I saw the four men also - looked like they were touching up previously painted railings. And the van with the name of the contractors -
from Northern Ireland - on it.

How/Where can we find out how much this project has cost so far, and the projected final cost?

Alun

If it's the NI crowd, then it's the same ones who were doing it before the 'break'.

B0jangles

I've no inside information or anything, but I suspect that the original contractor might have massively underestimated how long it would take to clean off and repaint the railings, so we're going to be left with them half done - the quick-fix job of the last few days has bridged the gap between the cleaned and repainted section and the completely untouched section, so it all looks 'ok' if you don't look too closely.

Zebbedee

The works are nearly completed now.
The new contractors have almost joined up to where the last ones finished off.
I'd say it's a lot less back breaking work too due to the scaffolding being higher and the available work space heightened.
I like the colours too as the blue is a few shades lighter.
Well done to them.