Recent work

[Pablo]

Yes I was given a budget and a list of wants. It was supposed to be finished months ago but I've had to wait for the new doors to be fitted because they set the level for everything and the deck couldn't be installled before them having to do this along with another job now because I've had to work around plumbers tilers and kitchen fitters who've all wanted to walk over everything I'm doing so had to start another one which I hate doing.

[Dave_L]

The trouble with our work, compared to you pavers etc is that like 80% of it is buried, pipes, ducts, manholes etc etc etc so it doesn't look half as pretty as these super patios etc!!

But those enabling works were 5 hard weeks of work!

[Pablo]

I can appreciate the work thats been done to get to that stage Dave and keeping your diggers busy for 5 weeks in the middle of winter is a cracking job to land.

[Dave_L]

Yeah it all fell into place early December, great job to land for frosty/icy mornings etc- a time of year when we can't do much surfacing work.

Hopefully we we will get invited to tender for the groundworks for the two houses late spring too.

Lots of manholes constructed, forgot these...

160mm duct with 1200x600 drawpits at 20m intervals for 63mm PE Gas service to be installed at a later date, 2 x 32mm water supplies, 100mm foul service to main sewer and a electric duct for driveway bollard lighting. A busy service trench!!

[lutonlagerlout]

great work guys
some cracking designs there pablo
no excuse for flags stacked like that I took my licks off the gaffer for it :;):
the render on walls to me seems a very scottish and irish thing,mind you the inclement weather makes it a good choice
we rarely get any clients want anything as artistic as pablo's creations
top notch both of ya
LLL

[haggistini]

spot on fellas as usual your all top tradesmen and your work is spot on!

[mickg]

the render on the walls is used a lot in contemporary garden designs and has gained more popularity in recent years seeing as lots of flower shows including Chelsea have garden displays showing this type of finish

[lutonlagerlout]

i thought they went for the extortionate snocrete types of render
£100 per metre etc
i find that normal render costs an arm and a leg in decent paint every 3-5years
however i have family in the south of ireland and all their houses are rendered
LLL

[mickg]

the high end designers would use the snocrete or similar renders but most use normal render and either cream or white paint finish, what most do which I don't agree with is to not have a coping on top of the block wall instead using render on the top which must lead to issues at a later date

if you do see a full brick house it tends to stick out like a sore thumb as like you say all the other houses are rendered , I have only been the once many years ago and was told its because bricks are imported hence more expensive than block work and render finish, I don't know if that's changed now as it was in the 80's when I was there

[lutonlagerlout]

ramp at front of house
dug out and did the upstands yesterday
lean mixed the void this Am then did the flags



not the most illustrious of work but it pays the bills
used the screed method today and it seemed to work fine,we shall see tomorrow
cheers LLL

[Mikey_C]

a picture would be handy mikey
the roof is indeed overspecified haggi
all that timber is tanalised 250 by 50 joists and 150 by 50 rafters
all bolted together and resin anchored onto the wall
plus every single tile has to be fixed with a screw and fixing due to the low pitch
back on climbing phil the scaff summited mount Kilimanjaro today
said it was a lot harder than he imagined
LLL

see
here

started in separate thread

[lutonlagerlout]

spoke to phil about Kilimanjaro
it cost them 3 grand each for the package which included flights and everything,think they had to bung the porters a few quid tip
he said it was very clean up there as all parties are weighed and you get charged for any lost weight when you descend ++ so rubbish is brought down
he said although a great experience it is very very uncomfortable above 5000 m
struggle to catch your breath all of the time
cheers LLL

[Thepinkpavingco]

This weeks job. Ready for a ripping.

[Carberry]

This weeks job. Ready for a ripping.

[queereye]

Too many colours and they're clashing.

[/queereye]

Can't rip the standard of work

[dig dug dan]

slips and darts :p



Edited By dig dug dan on 1330717199