Well folks, we’ve come to the end of another year here at Stapleton Engineering. A tough year. A year with many interesting challenges, many successes, many failures or learning experiences as we prefer to call them now. A year in which we developed a real sense of awareness when it comes to costs, efficiencies, regulations, bull shit and red tape.

I’ve always said that this business is a roller coaster ride, and oh boy, did we have a good one. Nevertheless, we’ve got here and we can still crack a smile and a joke with one another.

My hope for 2009 would be that the Government would take complete and aggressive control of this wonderful Nation of ours and show leadership like never before seen in our time to lead Ireland and stop paying lip service and homage to the so called great ones. Stand up and take action now and don’t be waiting for it to pan out itself.

Anyhow, we close for business tomorrow and we will all meet up later for a bite to eat and a few drinks, we will remember the crack we had through the year, the rows, the near misses, the clients, the sites. We will sing a song or two and then we will go our separate ways and we will be open for your business again on Monday 5th January 2009.

So Happy Christmas.

Regards, Martin.

We have just completed our metalwork package in The O2 Dublin which consisted of mesh balustrades with stainless steel tubular handrails, stainless steel drinks shelves, lift surrounds in glass and stainless steel, galvanised stair balustrades, balcony balustrades etc. and all had to be designed and manufactured to suit the criteria set out for managing large crowds. The project proved to be quite challenging but worthwhile and our team from the Design office to the Site Crews worked extremely well to produce a quality package for our clients within budget, safely and on time.

We manufactured almost all of the metalwork inside the Bowl and Crowd loadings were most important.

The 240 grit satin polished handrails proved a nice contrast to the grey finished balustrades.

Phisically getting the large panes of glass into position in a tight space was a challenge in itself.

We manufacture our mesh panel balustrade using CNC cutting so as to maintain uniformaty throughout our work. Whilst this was probably over the top a little the quality in the finish is evedent and worth the effort.

Well done lads, good work…………………………

Regards, Martin.

Here are some more pictures of a glass balustrade we applied to a timber stairs just recently. The stairs was beautifully manufactured and installed by the client and we fixed stainless steel machined glass brackets to which bolted the clear glass panels and then bolted the stainless steel handrail flat to.

The fabrication is simple but the attention to the detail as in the handrail and the machined brackets really makes it stand out from the crowd. As I say with a bit of design thought the results can be very satisfying indeed.

Regards, Martin

We completed an interesting project recently in Naas where our clients had a typical wooden staircase and wooden spindel type balustrade and decided they wanted to revamp and up grade the whole stairs and landing areas. We set about preparing our proposal and came up with what in my opinion works very well indeed. Basically we planted on grounds and brackets for glazing to the existing wooded stair string. This was finished in white, we then installed clear glass to these grounds by means of stainless steel machined dome head type bolts with gaskets and the nwe installed a stainless steel flat bar handrail which accomadates a timber handrail which will match the clients new stair treads. The results we very good and the whole job ties in very well with the surrounding decor now.

This type of design has made a huge difference to the Hall and Landing and it is the first element you see as you enter the fron door. It is a very cost effective method of getting glass in your lobby.

Regards, Martin.

In the past few years we have been supplying many apartment blocks with feature metalwork. Thankfully our workshop and crew are very flexible and we are not soley dependant on the Construction Industry, however we would like this market to begin moving again, for everyone’s sake.

The products we have supplied are items like door threshold drainage like Draindeck to door canopies or balconies, gates, railings, balsutrades etc. Below are some photos of some of this work.

As you can see we cover all aspects of the metalwork packages including the sourcing and installation of the glass panels and finish colouring the mildsteel and galvanised items. Our site crews install to the highest safety requirements and their workmanship is world class and of course their attention to detail is what makes them special indeed. These are just a few images of the type of residential packages we have been involved in and I will post some more at a later stage. Don’t forget if you would like any information on what we can offer please don’t hesitate to call us.

Regards,  Martin.