Waterproofs

[BML]

Love the site,

The weather seems to be going back to normal, Wet! and we need to get new waterproofs in.

What waterproofs do people recommend for hard landscaping?

[GB_Groundworks]

We've all got full sets of helly Hansen waterproofs in hi viz orange and yellow, better to have 2 pairs of pants though. Then I keep a few old ski type jackets behind the seats or in the brew cabin for those really miserable days when your in it that long that even waterproofs get drenched.

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[Tommy]

Ours are standard ARCO crap. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, either way you end up drenched.

Got to wait a month and a half before I can have new boots, my old ones are more like steel toed sandals now

[dig dug dan]

I splashed out about £100 on a coat from the local outdoors shop. It has lasted a year and now its not waterproof. when i complained, they said, after a while they loose thier waterproofing.
Nothing you can do about it, except buy another one!

[lutonlagerlout]

i find berghaus to be pretty good warmth and water resistant wise
tried craghopper trousers for a while but they only last 3 months so back to jeans now
if its a shower i dont bother ,and if it rains hard i get out of it
cant lay in the heavy rain anyway
LLL

[ilovesettsonmondays]

waterproofs lol .its been 28 degrees in central london today .was pointing up this afternoon finding it hard to strike after 15 mins and it was mixed very sloppy too

[cookiewales]

i use waterproofs from new zealand called seals seal flex .up to 5xl can breateble very light and hard wearing not cheap but the best there is country store oswestry stock them but sure a google search will find them. :;): :;):link http://www.ptarmiganclothing.com/product....tion=21 they are the best still have some from years ago earn there money in the winter when driving dumper loading setts and traviling down roads



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[msh paving]

You need to be keen to work in the rain,all you end up is making a mess and taking another day to clear it up,i guess some people do it on site work,no prizes for getting soaked and cold MSH

[Hawk]

started in the building game in 1977 when I left school,
if there was a drop of rain everbody ran to the brew cabin,
if was a wet morning and still raining at about 11.30 everyone got rained off for the day, how things have changed no such thing as a rain off anymore especially on site

[mickg]

yeah that's on top cookie, you still wear the psychedelic shorts

so are you saying that after 3 - 4 days of light rain and not earned a bean thats OK too msh ?

cookie what was it like on the patio we did a few weeks ago...any mess ?

[msh paving]

started in the building game in 1977 when I left school,
if there was a drop of rain everbody ran to the brew cabin,
if was a wet morning and still raining at about 11.30 everyone got rained off for the day, how things have changed no such thing as a rain off anymore especially on site

same hear hawk, last subby i worked for on site if it was raining at 7am you got no option to sit in van for a hour or 2 and wait to blow over it was home no pay end off questions MSH

[msh paving]

depends on job we are doing mickg,any finish work dont do in rain , but digger work is no probs and muck away if i can get lorry on driveway, my assisitant don't come in mornings if its raining at 6.30-7 am MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

Life's to short to get rained off

[lutonlagerlout]

14 hour days ,working in the rain
its like Dickensian London in here.

lifes too short to die from pneumonia Giles

and believe me i have done it,working as a banksman in the tipping rain as the digger driver sits in his nice warm cab with the radio and a flask of coffee

light showers or misty rain we crack on ,but proper rain destroys brickwork
any time you see a lot of efflorescence you can nearly guarantee that the bricks were laid in the rain,

i see these lads in the pub all the time ,50 yrs old ,deaf ,bent double,on disability money because their back is ruined
no medals for them
when i was brickwork subbying if the ganger saw a cloud in the sky we got rained off, we nicknamed him "raincloud"
working for myself i have lost maybe 1 week in 17 year due to rain ,but myself dan and MSH live in a very dry part of the country
I hear it rains a lot in gods country???? NW??
LLL

[mickg]

oh yes it does for sure rain a lot in gods country

we had a good run this year with nearly 6 weeks of very little rain until last week....sigh