Recent work

[lutonlagerlout]

my eyes!!

jeez haggi has your camera been on acid?

nice work you and dave
pain making the membrane work around that lot dave?
LLL

[haggistini]

Sorry luton the originals....

[Dave_L]

nice work you and dave
pain making the membrane work around that lot dave?
LLL

Yeah it's gonna be a right ballache, lots of tape and lapped joints, corner strentheners against the RIW. Setting that lot out was a right brain-ache but we've checked and triple-checked positions and we're good to go.

We've cut 300x300 squares out of scrap celotex for to go around the pipework to allow a degree of adjustment after the pour.

[DNgroundworks]

Made a start today on 100m plus of an oak sleeper retaining wall, the sleepers are being cut down by carpenter and the tops carved into a "twisting rope effect"... whatever that is.

Man..there heavy.


very intricate design going off down the garden, will post pics of progress.

[matty brock]

Cant belive how dry that ground looks on the 2nd lot of photies ! It hasnt stopped raining for weeks up North, you dont know how lucky you are down there

[matty brock]

Ignore me, just noticed the picture I was commenting on was from August 2010......Its been a long day

[Dave_L]

Membrane in and fibreboard placed, all ready for a 7am kick off. Wasn't too fiddly in the end, me and a good bloke with a knife & tape had the main of it in by 11am.

[haggistini]

Nice and neat dave you'll be sipping cider by dinner time tomorrow

[lutonlagerlout]

that oversite has made me smile dave
a work of art in my eyes
loving the celotex around the pipes
will remember that one
LLL

[mickg]

very neat job Dave

[Dave_L]

Thanks for the kind comments chaps!

The celotex came out of the skip from a site next door, they were more than happy to see it go! It will give us a bit of easement on the drainage connections when it comes to partition/studwork etc

The link corridor and ramped sections (2 x 150mm ramps) from the existing building is a tricky old affair. Full of underground tunnels housing heating pipework to the boilerhouse, manhole covers and drainage!

Think we'll pour that with the driest pump mix we can, leave it for a while then stir it into place at the lowest (flat) level on the main ramp.



Heating & hot water pipework we discovered underneath our dig!! Complicated the levels a little, big internal manhole cover going over this lot.



Other than that, I expect to be digging in the final foul connection pipework to the connection to the existing infrastructure by just after dinnertime. Then it'll be cider-time!

[peg basher]

with the pop-ups i like to triple wrap them with brickfill or myothene with a blank cap on and set them 5-10 mm below concrete level so they can be easifloated or powerfloated straight over. next day whilst the conc is still green just break the top off with a hammer. It helps keeps the finish nice and level with no dips of peaks around pop-ups and also stops them getting smashed later on.

[lutonlagerlout]

before

after

NB finger fail
new tarmac

wow that stuff is hot!






onwards and upwards
cheers LLL

[dig dug dan]

cracking stuff as always. But where did the silver birch tree go?

[haggistini]

Feck I thought you was tarmacing the whole threshold! thank feck you didn't!!!
what the fcuk is that BTW
:laugh:

Could do witha few more passes of the whacker I think a few lips central
Recess tray is freaky spot on
Job looks very nice
is that a goldwing in the garage just out of interest!
:p