2007/2008 Pembroke Wood Residents Committee
July 2, 2007 at 10:11 am 13 comments
A meeting was held on Tuesday, 19th June at 8 PM to elect members to the Residents Committee:
Chairperson – James Heath of The Brambles
Treasurer – Muireann Carbery of The Brambles
Secretary – Jo-anne O’ Keeffe of Pembroke Meadows
A meeting is held on the 1st Tuesday of every month.
Pembroke Wood Residents Association 
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David | July 6, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Do you know what Supple Construction are doing at the Green in front of doodlebugs
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Jo-anne O Keeffe | July 10, 2007 at 11:25 am
The builders on site have told us that they are snagging the development for completion.
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tom | July 17, 2007 at 1:27 pm
well they still haven’t come near our drains, they have been blocking since we moved in 5 years ago.
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Jo-anne O Keeffe | July 23, 2007 at 11:59 am
The builders are on site to complete the estate as per planning permission granted so the estate can be handed over to the city council. With regards to your drains issue you will have to contact Supple directly( which you probably have on numerous occsaions alread) but while they have staff on site it would be a good idea to plague them with calls.
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tom | July 25, 2007 at 11:15 am
na, not contacting them any more., pointless after 5 years.
Phelim O Neill, Estates Engineer, Estates Section, Cork County Council Headquarters, County Hall, Cork. is my point of contact now. he assured me that he will not accept the handover until all issues with residents are resolved.
guess who will be doing the chasing now for access to my drains
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Declan Soden | August 2, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Tom, we’re at the back of the estate in Foxwood. Have had problems with the downstairs toilet backing up since we moved in 3 years ago. Had Dyno rod stick a camera down and found that the earth rod for the house had been stuck through the drain. I said it to the guys on site last week and asked to have it snagged. There’re here today fixing it. They seem eager to help, might be no harm saying it to them, and check if your earth rod (just outside ESB box – small metal silver cap in the concrete) is parallel with your large drain cover (square black lid)
Declan
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elaine | November 11, 2007 at 6:35 pm
you need to twist the inlet valve in the hot tank to leave in more water.
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dk | November 15, 2007 at 6:21 pm
thanks, but its a little more that that I’m afraid.
the issue is with the water pressure, not volume.
pity because i wish it was that simple…
thanks anyway.
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Jon | December 4, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I talked to Danny Matthews from Supple today about our low water pressure in Hillcrest (it’s too low for the shower upstairs to work). He tells me that every house in the estate is supplied from a 4inch mains pipe coming up from the Rochestown Road (so I assume Harbour Heights shares this too) – but also told me that 3 years ago they installed a 6inch pipe coming from the road at the top of the hill, behind the development, but the council have never turned it on.
Danny is going to have the council check the water supply coming into my house.
I’ll post the result when (/ if) I get one.
Jon
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dk | December 6, 2007 at 9:42 am
3″ 6″ 10″ pipe doesnt matter, as we don’t have a problem with the volume, its the pressure.
now if it was a problem with the voloum/amount of water then size does matter. but this is not the issue here, we have plenty of water just not at the right pressure.
and even if one of the “builders” said that we have a 40″ header pipe supplying park, by law every house can only have a 1/2 take off the header.
the reason that the building regulations specify that one can only use a 1/2pipe to supply your dwelling is to restrict the volume of water to a household, but maintains the pressure.
first years since class… Boyle’s Law, Pressure V Volume
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dk | December 6, 2007 at 9:44 am
that should read “science class”
pity i didn’t pay as much attention in English class…
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Jon | August 12, 2008 at 11:07 am
Has anyone had any improvement on Water Pressure since the work was done on the Rochestown Road? I notice on the odd occasion I seem to have increased pressue, but when it low it’s lower than it’s even been!
Jon
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tom | August 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Danny Matthews is your man for that question.
he recently rewrote the laws of physics on pressure versus volume.