Modern apprenticeship in modular paving - Wanna contribute your two penn'orth?

Suggers · Post: # 41505Post **Suggers** Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:41 pm

oooeer - I've been auto edited.... you get the gist.

Level is a great word - must be hard to learn english - so many words spelt the same but with totally diff meanings.
"You on the level mate?"

Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:59 pm

spirit level they called them when i was learning,considered new fangled things in those days

datum is another word i use to try and avoid confusion

I.E. "we will take our datum from 2 course below damp daz"

bla bla bla

LLL

Suggers · Post: # 41511Post **Suggers** Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:15 am

I wish I'd listened more to my Dad - used to go on & on & on about getting the levels right - to begin with - of course us youngsters wanted to "get on with it..." rush rush rush..
He was right.

Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:05 pm

measure twice===> lay once

LLL

mickg · Post: # 41521Post **mickg** Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:18 pm

what i would like to know is where can you buy a level for Â£ 30 these day that is any good before you drop it

Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:35 pm

i haven't seen the old stabila solid forged levels for some time now
they all seem mickey mouse now
LLL

rab1 · Post: # 41534Post **rab1** Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:21 pm

always known a spirit level as a bead. still got my 10" stabila which is cast steel, 20 years old. dropped it over 19m once onto concrete and still as true as the day i bought it.

rab1 · Post: # 41535Post **rab1** Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:23 pm

Tony,they would have to learn to read first. :p

haggistini · Post: # 41546Post **haggistini** Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:16 am

most employers nowadays wonâ€™t pay for the training as they think that once staff are trained they will ask for more money or go elsewhere, I left my last employer with only in house machine tickets not worth a w*nk I also had a city and guilds certificate for steam plant maintenance and I got it in a week! the firm I worked for then was run by Italians from Milano absolutely no health and safety out there ,I turned up one morning to fire the boiler up at 4 am to find a note in broken English taped to the main electric board saying â€œDANGER BE CAREFULLâ€� and a water fire extinguisher next to it !!!. Needless to say a month after I left it burned to the ground it took 14 fire engines to put it out those crazy bast*rds.
itâ€™s great that your putting this together I would love to read it, I havenâ€™t had the experience of most of the brew cabin regulars but I laid my first block paving patio when I was 14 with my uncle ..Now 32 I have been in and out of construction ever since I left school and would hope I could give some feedback at least

rab1 · Post: # 41560Post **rab1** Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:27 pm

tony,

send me a copy and i`ll have a look at it, i`m an m&e contractor, but training apprentices in all trades must be the same, start with the basics and build. fresh set of eyes as such, on the actual paving points not much use, but in general layout etc might be able to help.

rab1 · Post: # 41561Post **rab1** Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:29 pm

haggs, did you ever work for the nhs?

haggistini · Post: # 41571Post **haggistini** Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:03 am

No why

rab1 · Post: # 41577Post **rab1** Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:18 pm

The steam plant C&G, their about the only people who use steam now along with power stations.

Post: # 41581Post **msh paving** Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:12 pm

alot off large comercial glasshouse's use steam boilers, MSH

ilovesettsonmondays · Tue Sep 08, 2009 6:40 pm

hi, i did my city and guilds roadwork craft at riversdale college 25 years ago .day release once a week 9 till 730 pm for 3 years and could have carried on another four.if only i had been mature at 16 years of age . .i did my nvq 22 years later in 1 hour .anyone can do it words that spring to mind money spinner