'Now we can't do anything.' A Londonderry man says his home is crumbling due to bricks made of mica
Kate and Danny Rafferty noticed cracks and bubbling forming on their walls over a number of years
Thousands of homes in the Republic of Ireland have crumbled because of bricks made of pyrite and mica.A Londonderry family has estimated it could cost more than £100,000 to fix their home after mica was detected. "We have had about twelve [people] up to recently, but that number has now gone way up and we are just dealing with that at the moment," Mr Coleman told BBC Radio Foyle on Monday.
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