Recent work

[Dave_L]

Yeah right by the student canteen, the smell of cooking was torture on a daily basis. We charmed the girls into doing us teas for a couple of days but I reckon they got a bollocking after day 2 as they dried up after then

[haggistini]

May have been the " do you need your lawn trimmed " comment?

[lutonlagerlout]

i concur haggis
havent used a powerfloat for 10 years
nice work dave
LLL

[Dave_L]

May have been the " do you need your lawn trimmed " comment?

You should have seen the look on the pretty young canteen checkout girl when she was watching our Adrian flopping the 2" poker about the 'crete.

Her smile said it all, I reckon she likes 'vibrating toys'

[lutonlagerlout]

maybe they wanted a *small* hole filling as a private job?
LLL

[Dave_L]

"Any hole's a goal, happy to oblige" :p :p

[haggistini]

Easy now boys!!

Well I won't be laying any blocks,digging,or running arround like a blue arse fly for a week I'm outta here tomorrow to Parma nova yippee! The all in buffet won't know what hit em! First holiday in 2 years and I'll be getting payed

[Dave_L]

Happy days Haggi, have a great time and go easy on the all-inclusive food mate

[Mikey_C]

Happy days Haggi, have a great time and go easy on the all-inclusive food mate

it's the bar I worried about

[GB_Groundworks]

its the local livestock im worried about haha haha :p :laugh:

[lutonlagerlout]

shagaluf wont know whats hit it :laugh:
LLL

[digerjones]

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




after mr lout and mr 40lb carp's attention

4.PM




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
LLL

got to put a lintel in like that soon. cliant want to convert room into garage. its double story, i've got some strong boys i was going to use, cut the hole out, fit lintel, cut a former for top of lintel for an arch with brick headers, what would your method be tony. 7' opening so single garage door.

[lutonlagerlout]

I own 2 strong boys but dont like them
what we did was fix a 225 by 50 joist to the wall about 9 inches higher than where the render starts
using these
we fixed it every 200mm1 higher 1 lower so like a W shape
used about 15
then we removed 1 scaffold board and put 2 acrows at about a 15 deg angle from the floor to the underside of the plate
so that when we removed the loose stuff we wouldnt lose the rendered section
as it was lime mortar i drilled out the joints on any stubborn bricks with a 6.5mm drill
if you are using an L10 lintel (L shaped) you will probably need to bed it on to something in the middle as they tend to flex more than normal cavity lintels
cheers LLL

[haggistini]

I love those screws LLL saves fecking about and a good fix in seconds a nice battery impact driver chews them in I'm still not sure on your method any pics

[haggistini]

P.s the 100mm ones are 10p each in B&Q if you buy a 100 pk