The weather..rain rain... - How has it affected you ?

[thegardensurgery]

with the amount of rain we have had how as it affected business for you...we have had 3 big floods on gardens we have been working on...my fault for always picking retaining gardens...but our team is working thru the rain...but it`s getting to us a bit now.. !

[Stuarty]

Its not been as wet up here as down in parts of Englandshire but its still very wet nevertheless. It was like a propper summers day here til about 3 oclock. Then it just chucked it down. Im doing a patio for the folks at the moment too, as soon as i dug all the soil out, it hasnt stopped raining. So they have a pond at the moment :/ not the desired effect heh

Come back summer

[Rich H]

Mainly dry in the south east of England for the next couple of days and we're in a pointing frenzy, three to do today and tomorrow. All available tarps will be employed! I'm offski!

[Rich H]

2 down - one to go. Got the tarps on the second one just before the heavens opened. Again.

Just of to Wycombe for the last one, clear blue skies for a change...

[seanandruby]

benching a lot of live storm manholes at the minute, a lot of 225 and 500 pipes. why they didnt bench them when manholes where low i dont know. it takes days, rather than hours to do.

[Tony McC]

That always used to puzzle me. Why not bench the damned thing while it's one-ring high?

I always had our MHs benched at that stage, as it was so much faster, but I know many other civils contractors would leave benching until it was picked up on the snagging-for-adoption list and then have some young lad spend a week hunched in a small space, dropping grano into the live channel and dodging the corn-encrusted turds as they sailed past. Madness!

[seanandruby]

its all about speed ( so they tell me ).done 50 so far on this job, 3 to go, then can rest me legs and back till next job. got one 5 metres deep main sewer with hundreds of toilets going in to do, always save the best till last a?

[Dave_L]

Nice Sean! I'll think of you when I complain about knocking into an IC!

[thegardensurgery]

Persimmon have this nasty habit of putting rings on small half meter inspection drains in garden....a nightmare ! WHY !!!

[lutonlagerlout]

money, TGS money
i think the benching thing is a leftover from when the ICs were bricks and they didnt want mortar snots all over the benching,so they left it till last
on smaller ICs i have done the benching first then cut a bit of ply inside the bwk with rope through it ,which can be pulled up once the rest of the bwk is finished
cheers LLL

[seanandruby]

for years Ive been building the last 2 3 4 course on a biscuit. i cut a square of ply 580/590 to stand on with some dpc tacked on the edges, this stops the snots messing up the channel and benching. i showed a time served brickie who thought i was "mad" to stand on the ply. how does he think we used to build all brick I said " that's what the corners are for". nothing worse than building them from the outside...back, arms, legs and neck fecking hurt. :laugh:

[lutonlagerlout]

i built some all class A IC's in edgeware 4 m high,had to be water tested too,ridiculous really
LLL