Phone repair in Clontarf

Two things define repair work from Clontarf, and both are the sea.

The first is salt air, which is unkind to charging ports and to anything with an exposed contact. Ports from the seafront end corrode faster than ports from two miles inland, and a port that has gone green needs cleaning properly rather than a new cable and hope. It is worth having looked at early, because a corroded port that keeps being forced eventually takes the pads on the board with it, and that is a much bigger repair.

The second is water itself. St Anne's, Bull Island and the promenade produce a reliable supply of phones that have been in a pocket in the rain, in a bag that went into the sea, or on a wall that turned out to be over the tide. The rules for all of those are the same and they matter more than anything else on this page: do not turn it on, do not plug it in, do not use rice. Current through a wet board is what actually kills a phone, not the water.

Beyond that Clontarf is family devices and a lot of iPads, and a fair number of laptops belonging to people who work from home along Castle Avenue and St Lawrence Road. Nothing exotic, all of it quick, and the diagnostic costs nothing either way.