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Dublin Welder
01 864 5512
City Centre South · D2 & D8 · 30 min

Across the Liffey, around the cordon.

Portobello, the Liberties, Temple Bar, Grand Canal Dock. About thirty minutes from the workshop, longer if there's a Bohs vs Pats match or if you're behind a Luas-track changeover. The work down here is split between Georgian terrace railing repairs (Portobello and the streets off the South Circular), Liberties brewery and distillery TIG, and hospitality kitchen stainless work in the city-centre restaurants.

Portobello canal-side terrace — ornate Georgian railings on a brick plinth, painted black, fronting onto a stone-flagged footpath

Where we work most weeks

D2 and D8 cover a huge spread of property types — Georgian and Edwardian terraces in Portobello, the Liberties' redbrick tenements and the new-builds replacing them, Temple Bar's pub-and-restaurant strip, the post-industrial Grand Canal Dock with its glass-and-steel office buildings. The patterns we see:

  • Portobello / Camden Street area — Georgian-pattern railing repair, ornate gates with conservation sign-off
  • Liberties / Cork Street — Guinness Storehouse periphery, distillery and brewery TIG work, food-grade kitchen stainless
  • Temple Bar — pub bin-store enclosures, shopfront shutter repairs, fire-escape compliance
  • South Circular Road / Rialto — Edwardian terrace work, small-scale residential fabrication
  • Grand Canal Dock — office fit-out balustrade, internal stair stringers for tenant fit-out projects
  • St Patrick's / Christ Church area — heritage railing repair around the cathedrals

What a D2/D8 callout actually needs

  • Georgian-pattern railing repair. Portobello and the streets around Wexford Street are conservation-led. Section replacement to match an original, hot-dipped, conservation-officer sign-off.
  • Brewery / distillery TIG work. The Liberties cluster of micro-distilleries (Roe, Pearse Lyons, Teeling) and the small breweries off Crane Street keep us steady on TIG vessel and bracket repair. Sanitary standard.
  • Hospitality kitchen stainless. Bench legs, pot-rack repairs, splash-back joins for restaurants from Temple Bar through Drury Street. HSE food-grade compliance, fully passivated.
  • Office fit-out balustrade. Grand Canal Dock and Pearse Street office fit-outs — internal stair balustrade, mezzanine railings, tenant-improvement steelwork.

Hospitality & food-grade — a note

About 15% of D2/D8 work is hospitality stainless. We're food-grade ticked, work fully passivated, and have HSE-compliant documentation for any work where the inspector might ask. We try to schedule kitchen work outside service hours — most jobs go in between midnight and 6am or on a Sunday-night close. That's quoted into the hourly accordingly; we don't put a fixed multiplier on out-of-hours, but the hours are billed for what they are.

Typical response time

  • Weekday 08:00 – 17:00: average 3.5 hours from confirmed booking
  • Same-day in 30% of cases received before 11am — city-centre cordon and Luas delays add an hour vs. D5/D11
  • Most fabrication jobs schedule into a Tuesday or Thursday half-day run across the southside
  • Hospitality kitchen work: scheduled out-of-hours, typically 1–2 weeks ahead

Services available across D2 & D8

Out-of-hours hospitality welcome

Kitchen jobs scheduled
outside service hours.

For restaurant and pub kitchen stainless we work between midnight and 6am or on a Sunday-night close. Billed at the actual hour, no fixed multiplier.

01 864 5512