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[dig dug dan]

where in hemel tony? anywhere near me? not forgotten i need to dig your allotment over sometime!

[lutonlagerlout]

just around the corner dan, cowper road, got a site visit with the bco thursday as he wants 1.8m dig for starters,
cheers mate
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

stockport has just laid off all but 3 bco's for a massive area and now only do 3 site visits, as opposed to 10 that next council over do in east cheshire

down to footings, drainage and completion now. some bco's excellent the new ones just out of college with the folder open all the time are the worst, only by what there manual says not from any experience.

[lutonlagerlout]

in the interests of fairness,I thought I better put some more pics up for your amusement
recent work
cheers LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

Do you not have a minimum cover on the footings, we always stop the concrete 250mm short of the surface on house footings?

[lutonlagerlout]

not really giles,with trench fill the higher the better as long as drains and finishes are unaffected
less bending for my old back
TBh i really enjoyed digging the last week at knebworth,theres just enough water about to make the clay diggable, 3 of us me on the breaker/fork ,hoody on the shovel and Pj on the barrow = 8 yd skip by 3 pm
in 1 3 M run we found 5 services, A digger would struggle with that
the big 1500 by 1500 pad i dug out solo in 6 hours but dont get me wrong it was nice digging

LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

All the architects up here specify it and bco like it with over not entirely sure why. Frost maybe.



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[lutonlagerlout]

we normally just fill up 300 below oversite level that gives us the dig for the type 1 IYKWIM, 100 crete ,80 celotex,20 sand and 100 type 1
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

What's that salt glaze pipe? Did you cap it or just leave it and did you sheave the water main or is it just cast into the pad? And what is the building like an outside garden room?

[lutonlagerlout]

the salt glaze is a kitchen waste that has to stay till the oversite gets prepped,then we will install plastic pipe and gully
the other job is indeed a sun room which flow joe kindly came down and repaired a pipe for us today
the windows are a special aluminium order and will be arriving on the 14th
more pics to follow
cheers LLL

[seanandruby]

Thinking of replacing my old conservatory with a build like in your photos. Going to do it myself but am a bit rusty when it comes to pricing. How much would the materials cost ( going by what your quote says don't want you to spend time on it, just roughly) from the founds to complete. It'll take me a while just weekends and holidays.

[GB_Groundworks]

You still using trestles? Our bricks do but hse allwys shit a brick on anythingover 600mm without fall protection etc. Always scares me when you see 2 trestles and 20 foot plasters planks(30mm) stacked out with a massive bow least use the scaffold planks (70mm) or a third trestle hehe. Seen them snap before.

Is sun room going to be rendered? Thought you'd have matched those awful yellows hehe :p

[GB_Groundworks]

Guessing 3mx2m so 8mx.6x.6 = 2.88m3 in clay = 2.1 per m3 for average soil so 6.3 tons then bulking factor x 2 = 12 tons of muck out. So say 1 grab wagon.

2.88m3 of concrete back in based on a 600x600 footing as only single storey

So grab = £250
concrete = £300

Then how long it takes you to dig it out and cart it rd to grab or skip

Very general best case scenarios on prices sd maybe a little northern

[lutonlagerlout]

You still using trestles? Our bricks do but hse allwys shit a brick on anythingover 600mm without fall protection etc. Always scares me when you see 2 trestles and 20 foot plasters planks(30mm) stacked out with a massive bow least use the scaffold planks (70mm) or a third trestle hehe. Seen them snap before.

Is sun room going to be rendered? Thought you'd have matched those awful yellows hehe :p

the bandstands were for doing some steel work inside the house
would have a job lifting those 900 by 400 coping stones on top of a 3.6m wall using bandstands that only go to 1.4 M

yes the sun room is going to be rendered in snocrete

those awful yellows belong to a house worth over 700k,i am sure that will be some consolation to the clients :;):
cheers LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

some more pics
day 1 at hemel removing pergola and decking 9soon to be recycled as path edgings at my allotment)


build done and 2 motorised velux roof lights installed


mr lout in his element with his trusty bulldog "bullseye"





sadly "bullseye " proved to much for the client's polypropylene water main, after a quick weekday shower a repair was affected

nice of the gasboard to bury the gas main 50mm in the ground and then encase in concrete
thanks!


on to the allotment ,this is a special one for all you pedants out there as it was done from odds and sods left over from jobs bar the 2.5M 3 of type 1 and 1.6 M3 of washed river sand (grit sand to any northerners) and 10 bags of cement
i put 1m3 of planings at the far end as this normally stirs up a hornets nest
enjoy!!!
:laugh:




and after



old skool injun stone



and lastly why i should wear gloves when digging



ready for the potshots
LLL