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Family abandon home due to pyrite
- Published_at:2017-03-13
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:TheJournal.ie
- tags: pyrite mica building materials backfill mayo building house abandoned family michael healy dan healy move out ireland boom bust
- description: A family in Co Mayo has had to abandon their home as it is crumbling around them http://jrnl.ie/3277538 Michael Healy and his son Dan are sharing their story in a bid to highlight the pyrite plight faced by many others across the country. Speaking to TheJournal.ie, they say they knew there was something wrong with the house for several years – there were unusual noises and excessive cracking in the plaster – but didn’t get an answer until about two years ago. Dan recalls: “We live in quite a boggy land area, so we carried out excavations to see if there was movement in the foundation, but nothing was going on below the ground. “You could hear this almighty cracking, no one knew what it was.” Pyrite is a form of iron sulphide, and a type of the material – framboidal pyrite – can expand in the presence of oxygen and water. Mica muscovite is a mineral that also significantly weakens concrete. The materials were cheap and sometimes used as ’backfill or ‘infill’ when constructing the foundations of houses – this became a common practice in some regions during the property boom. Thousands of houses around the country are affected. TheJournal.ie is an Irish news website that invites its users to shape the news agenda. Read, share and shape the day’s stories as they happen, from Ireland, the world and the web. Submit your clips to video@thejournal.ie Stay up to date with all of the latest videos by subscribing to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/thejournalvideo?sub_confirmation=1 Download our free iOS app: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/thejournal.ie-news/id409359491?mt=8 Download our free Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.distilledmedia.thejourna Twitter: twitter.com/thejournal_ie Facebook: facebook.com/TheJournal.ie Instagram: instagram.com/thejournal_ie Snapchat: thejournal.ie
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