Recent work

[lutonlagerlout]

cheers mike
as my old boss frenchy used to say "its as easy to do things right as it is to do them wrong"
plus a little bit of pride in your work
the plasterer passed by today and he cant wait to get going,says theres nothing worse than snots on blockwork
we are on the bedroom lift today,main roof going on next week
need to start thinking of patios
LLL

[haggistini]

Nice job LLL and very neat and tidy and clean Work area. what ideas do you mean ? Not the dreaded 100 mm dry cutting curves with the widow maker grinder I hope!

[lutonlagerlout]

I like the double edge course of setts
nice finishing touch
as for keeping the site tidy it is a constant battle,if i switch off for 2 minutes stuff happens
so i cant switch off :;):
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

onwards and upwards this week
timber delivered for roof


steel ninjaed on to scaffold all 168kg of it


pad cut out and installed ,N.B. evidence of wet cutting haggi



neighbours didnt want scaffold in their garden so we used sky hooks


conservatory coming on well


and lastly the murder lift loaded out


anyone suggest any slabs or flags to go with these red bricks?
cheers LLL

[haggistini]

I found the Brett sunset and multi brown setts looked fine with a red brick but I think most go with red as long as it's framed. Got a pic of the area to be laid?

[Dave_L]

as for keeping the site tidy it is a constant battle

Aye....as we say...."A clean tailboard is a happy tailboard!"

[dig dug dan]

neighbours didnt want scaffold in their garden so we used sky hooks

why do people have to be so awkward??

[Dave_L]

neighbours didnt want scaffold in their garden so we used sky hooks

why do people have to be so awkward??

Builder said to me last week......"All customers are bastards" keep that in your mind and you won't go far wrong........

[lutonlagerlout]

the neighbours were ok really its just a 10 foot by 6 foot wide privet makes it difficult to put ant standards in
i was impressed how the scaffs got over it
and dave i have heard of ACAB but without customers where would we be?
LLL

[seanandruby]

....Surely only calls for a cantilever scaffold? I'm sure your allowed, by law to encroach slightly for temporary works ???

[Dave_L]

and dave i have heard of ACAB but without customers where would we be?
LLL

Yes, very true Tony but (in my experience) there are many good customers out there, just a few fall into the ACAB category I guess!

[joydivision]

Just finnished quite a nice orangery for a company I contract to.
Personaly we did all the groundworks, steel erecting and brickwork. Didnt fir the frames, roof etc.

Steel portal erected, foundations poured, built to dpc and sub base being prepared.




Brickwork going up,(building 2 brick x 2 brick pillars to size as frames pre made in reclaimed handmade cheshire's, urrghhh!)
Roof lanterns built and fascias put up.



Taking shape, brickwork pretty much finnished, frames and bi-folds installed.




JD

[lutonlagerlout]

very nice.i bet that cost a pretty penny
proper lump of a house too
great work JD
LLL

[joydivision]

very nice.i bet that cost a pretty penny
proper lump of a house too
great work JD
LLL

Yeah, to my knowledge it was up around the 100k mark!!
Think the steel sub structure bumped the price up.

The house is getting fully renovated too and will be rendered with k-rend or something similar, so the orangery will look pretty smart in the cheshire's against that when all done.

JD

[Pablo]

Just finnished quite a nice orangery for a company I contract to.

A spades a spade thats a conservatory /sunroom not an orangerie. It wouldn't let enough light in and appears to be facing the wrong way. Flipping architects are great at polishing turds but at the end of the day it's still a turd. It is very nice all the same it would be interesting to see what paving and planting is put in front of those doors. Are the doors being painted to match the rest of the frames it looks a bit odd and out of keeping otherwise.