Recent work

[lemoncurd1702]

Some before images, sketchup design and progress so far.













Hopefully finish paving next week and face fence with slats, seal pond and fill, grout, make two gates and lay turf. Ok maybe week after.

[Forestboy1978]

I'd love to be able to do that^^

What do you reckon of this fence I put up today. Bit boring for you guys but I built all the panels myself. Just wanted to see what you though.

Basically started making feather panels to use and supply but with gate capping on top instead of trenched. Much more robust. Painted with cuprionol ducks back forest oak which is my treatment of choice. Absorbs well into pressure treated timber. Goes on easy, looks nice. A few touch ups needed tomorrow but it's done basically. Refurbed the gate as well and did the hedge. Gate was a B***h.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh....Da?dl=0

[michaelthegardener]

fence looks good but why not just use feather edge instead of making it in to panels ?

[Forestboy1978]

fence looks good but why not just use feather edge instead of making it in to panels ?

Well, customer wanted 6ft spacings so I thought it'd be a good excuse to build the panels I'd been meaning to build. For a front fence that's quite short I think posts every 6ft looks better than 10 ft bays also.

For a taller fence or whatever then yeah, I see no reason not to go with bays but for a fence you can see the top of, I like the thick robust look of that capping. It's twice the thickness of normal trenched capping and shows the fence off nicely. I doubt I'll ever build them for anything above 4 ft, unless requested.

[lutonlagerlout]

lemon curd and forest boy excellent work all round

you do like a circle LC , nice portfolio = empty wallet :;):
LLL

[lemoncurd1702]

you do like a circle LC , nice portfolio = empty wallet :;):
LLL

Too true on times.

Basically, have to distance myself from the crowd. There are plenty around here who can bang out a reasonable drive or patio and I cannot compete with them.
Customers are not so discerning until they're shelling out a lot of cash.

Cracking fence Forest I think it looks great made as panels. Reckon you'll get some calls from the neighbours.
Does the timber come that colour or did you stain it prior to construction.

[sy76uk]

Nice work Mark. Like the design too.
Did you do the brickwork yourself?

Here are a few pictures on the porcelain job I finished a couple on weeks ago.







Not a master piece design but nice and practical for the couple that are in there 70's.

[lutonlagerlout]

very nice sy
the corner detail on the blue staff bullnose isnt quite right
with brick work generally nothing should be less than 50mm

it looks pretty thought very neat
LLL

[lemoncurd1702]

Yeah my brickwork Simon. Get let down so many times or have difficulty in timing jobs to fit in with brickies schedule that its easier to do it myself.

Job looks great and I know they caused you some grief (I think everyone who has used the vitrified has gone through it) but they do look stunning.
Nice job, those step corners look painful to cut. :p

[lutonlagerlout]

thing with the staffs is the joints have to be even or it looks pants
the paving looks ace but I will be waiting a while before I go near it
LLL

[sy76uk]

Cheers Tony, Mark.

Tony, I know the corners on the blues are small but I couldn't think on a better way to turn the corner.
I didn't want to lay the tiles on top of the bricks because I'm not keen on seeing the edge.
I think concrete key kerbs would have looked odd up against porcelain where as the blues match quite well.
The small cut just seemed the lesser of all the evils in my mind.
The next job I'll be using blues as kerbs on has radius steps thankfully.
Thanks for the seal of approval mate, means a lot.

You do a cracking job on your brickwork Mark. If I could lay bricks to that standard I wouldn't bother using a brick at all.
It wasn't the tiles that caused me the grief really Mark, it was just the job in general.
One of those jobs where if something could go wrong it did.
The cuts on the corners were a bit fiddly but not rocket science. I just took a 45 off the back edge with a little adjustable square then used the square again to cut the little triangles 25mm on the face.

I do like the tiles. There are a very good idea. I think that job might have looked nicer if we would have used granite.

[DempseyLiverpool]

Nice work lads. Stonework looks spot on LC.

[DempseyLiverpool]

Nice work lads. Stonework looks spot on LC.

[Forestboy1978]

you do like a circle LC , nice portfolio = empty wallet :;):
LLL

Too true on times.

Basically, have to distance myself from the crowd. There are plenty around here who can bang out a reasonable drive or patio and I cannot compete with them.
Customers are not so discerning until they're shelling out a lot of cash.

Cracking fence Forest I think it looks great made as panels. Reckon you'll get some calls from the neighbours.
Does the timber come that colour or did you stain it prior to construction.

Sorry I missed this.

Thanks, yeah I'm doing the neighbours now lol.

The materials were pressure treated natural green then stained. Cuprinol ducks back wax enriched oak brown. Looks tons better than buying the brown materials. Impermeable too, water beads on it when it rains and goes on easy. Def my preferred treatment. Seems to soak right into pressure treated timber too which I've done tons of times. I wish I'd gone rich oak now for the darker brown due to painting the pillars black and re painting the black iron gate but yeah it looks tidy anyway I think.

Ta

[GB_Groundworks]

we are back at ferodo doing more civils for new production lines first one is a reinforced foundation and pit for a 250 ton press

fun week as 5 hse inspectors have been in doing a full audit all week, had us on our best behaviour







always a bloody great big lump in the way







pipe thats no on any cad drawing, but is on the 1957 hand drawn plan that was found after we discovered it right in the way of the wall of our pit



pit is 2.5m deep so had to bring the 8 tonner in



we have to load these skips, it gets tested for contanimates