We were told by Sean, the possible staircase manufacture, at least in wood, that if we were considering a steel/iron staircase or a steel/iron balustrade, we should talk to Tommy Lennon in Dingle.
"Grand" says us, "where can we find him?" "Go up the road up to the Conor Pass, turn left at Creans and go right to the top and it’s up there."
Off we head, up past The Dingle Brewery, brewers of Creans Irish Lager, past some of the new estates now surrounding Dingle town, until the road literally runs out. Well when I say the road runs out, technically it doesn’t, it becomes a farm track.
OK, so we clearly missed it we decide, as we drive slowly back down the road until we are nearly back at the brewery. Um, OK let's go more slowly and considering more options which means that it doesn’t take us long before we are turning into a farmyard which might just be a steel fabricator.
There’s no one about and we decide that this is not the right place. Off up the road we go again, and we park up where the official road ends. Himself says "oh let's go up the farm track and see what's up there". He can say that cos he is navigating, and I am driving.
Up the single dirt track, past a derelict farmhouse and fields. As the hedges become lower over on our left I spot what looks like a very large farmhouse and outbuildings. The road turns left and voilá we think this is our destination. What’s also amazing is that up close, it is a very large and incredibly well-maintained steel fabricators with a four-story office building. Well when we say four story, what makes up the four floors are 40ft cargo containers piled on top of each other.
And there we meet Tommy Lennon, or TOL Engineering as the business is called. He hands us over to Padriag who confirms that they can help you, and we go up to the office and meet the team.
The office is fitted out with high tech equipment, high spec PC’s with the latest technology and we look at each other and say this is a serious operation. We are taken through what they could do for us and then they say to us had we considered a steel staircase... because I have previous experience in an engineering company that made steel staircases. Himself says "Would that be O’Carrolls by any chance?" and Padraig smiles, as do his colleagues and confirms that it was. Peter replies by saying we’d been to O’Carrolls and the quote we got is way out of the ball park and that’s why we’ve begun another search!
The long and the short of it is that we’ve left our drawing with TOL Engineering in Dingle and asked them for a quote on a stairs. Time will tell what happens next.
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