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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 78626Post lutonlagerlout

i said it before and i will say it again
most times we have to work at 95% quality
that extra 5% in finesses doubles most jobs
haggis puts his camera where his mouth is and its hard to fault his work,same with most on here
but in the real world we have to work within client/or subbie budgets
so sometime the work has to be 100% for joe public but only 95% to our eye
I often feel I have OCD as even in the pub tonight i spot stuff out of level,or skewhiff?
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Post: # 78627Post lutonlagerlout

pablo
personally i dont like the change from angular to arc
but sheesh mate ,we are talking design here
the installation is perfecto
I think if you are following the squints on the Victorian conservatory then keep all the angle the same
but easy to say from here
also would rather have seen the random pattern continue its flow but again that is personal taste
that double brick arch over the gate is an effing disgrace,I know you didnt do it but look at the voussoirs in that arch==> a tragedy :;):

neo nice work fella
i count fence myself and it all looks great,I have to break pablos balls as him and mickg do the dogs diddlys on the lock blocking so we have to keep a keen eye on them :)
thing is all of us no matter how good or bad we are are willing to learn(well 99%)

john i looked back and myself dave L and seanandruby all joined back then
i was sick of hearing bollox of site agents etc and looking for a real answer
tony mcC is indeed a living legend,but I will never agree that black mortar looks good

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Post: # 78635Post seanandruby

local patios and driveways wrote:Brown nose ^
Isn't jealousy a terrible thing. Give credit where credit is due i always say :)
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Post: # 78637Post mickg

it is indeed sean ???

I recall the photo's your grandson posted for you a while back and they may of been on a grand scale with the size of the job your working on compared to our small scale domestic work but the workmanship was spectacular and neatness like that can't be bought either, its a skill of which you certainly excel in sean
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Post: # 78640Post seanandruby

mickg wrote:it is indeed sean ???

I recall the photo's your grandson posted for you a while back and they may of been on a grand scale with the size of the job your working on compared to our small scale domestic work but the workmanship was spectacular and neatness like that can't be bought either, its a skill of which you certainly excel in sean
What colour nose will you end up with today mick ??? :;):
May i say your skills are second to non also :D
Might leave the sun cream off today and go for the belishing beacon :p
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Post: # 78749Post GB_Groundworks

i got through the reinforced suspended concrete on the k deck stuff then hit 300-400mm reinforced concrete so with the gas gone on our 1.5 ton hammer i gave up and went and got the 3cx, did as much in 30 mins as i had done the previous day with the 1.5 ton kicking myself for not abiding by my own adage, what will do a lot will do a little, but what will do a little wont do a lot.

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Post: # 78754Post haggistini

Bloody nice design Pablo im loving the "tobermore?" circle and boarder on the patio. I feel that the curves would have looked better but as LLL says its well executed. Neo all work counts on here (warts and all mid job get the most attention generally :-) and your fences look the biz as do the block paving, nice curves and fitting with the garden.
Not like you Giles to take a mini digger when you could squeeze a jcb in there!!

Finally got the second driveway done after being faffed about last week waiting for blocks

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Post: # 78773Post lutonlagerlout

very tidy haggis
not sure about the position of the linear drains
after my jaunt to the north we managed to get the goal posts in to the existing kitchen this week
what a ballbreaker!
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the head weighed 235kg and the uprights 156kg
we had to break holes through the block and beam floor through 2 courses of trench blocks and 225 into the foundation

and then make good after!
good money in this sort of work,but by jove! its awkward
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Post: # 78835Post lutonlagerlout

and now for summat completely different
this is what happens when window fitters put upvc frames in where previous timber load bearing frames sat
8.00 am today
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after mr lout and mr 40lb carp's attention

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i like doing stuff like this its challenging
I should have took pictures of the way we supported it while we got the L10 lintel in but thats a trade secret :;):
any questions fire away
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Post: # 78839Post Dave_L

Groundworks for a canteen extension at a local college

Lots of 393......

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Elevator concrete wagon to place the C35, worth its weight in gold, obviously only as good as it's operator....

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Two 6m3 loads tipped into the elevator wagon, took 12 mins per load. Started at 0730 was complete by 9.30 :)

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Concrete placed and to level

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Final powerfloat finish @ 5pm

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Post: # 78841Post GB_Groundworks

did you shutter it or get some joiners in? nice attention to detail on the shutter, we'd have pinned it with scaffold poles knocked in with the machine hehe

hate waiting around for concrete to float it grrr




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Post: # 78845Post Dave_L

I had Adrian our joiner into help us, we'd never have got it done as well as he had.

It was all a team effort, from the man on the saw with the wood, to the man on the level, to the man on the rake.

An all-round great job, nice one to finish the week on.

All I did was oversee the pour and dot the laser about, left two lads to float it up, but they were back by 4pm. The scenery was pretty good at the college so the waiting around wasn't that bad lol
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Post: # 78848Post haggistini

And the canteen by the looks of it. Nice job dave I've been banging a few m3 gen1 in recently and that jobs looks better than any of our recent pours!
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