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DNgroundworks
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Post: # 79435Post DNgroundworks

Awesome brickwork Tony, its something i am crap at! My skills in that department are left to manholes and the like :D

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Post: # 79438Post lutonlagerlout

take your time dan and lay to the line
i would say it takes 6 months to get proficient
3 years to get good
and maybe 10 to get experienced,cookie would know what i mean by this
basically after 10 or so years you can get other trades out of the shite or overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles

its taken me a long time to get to grips with paving because i dont do it every day
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Post: # 79439Post flowjoe

The dogs danglies as always Tony, you have the eye :)
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Post: # 79441Post digerjones

no what your saying about experience, but if you were on a building site all the time you would only get good at that type of work. i am lucky because my man is old school and his dad aswell. lots of get out of jail cards :D
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Post: # 79454Post lutonlagerlout

my old mentor frenchy called it diddle and fake it
a legend
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Post: # 79759Post haggistini

Been working but mainly partying of late hope I haven't let the boyz standards slip...
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The boys are nagging me for new boots...?

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Post: # 79761Post msh paving

Lot of small cuts or darts in piccy 4 Haggi....whats going on? MSH :D
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Post: # 79763Post haggistini

I don't know? they know what's expected but when I'm not there they creep back in...!
I'll have them changed tommorow when they start moaning about the weather! the 2 boys that I got a start with this firm have come on loads but they are daunted as me by the way it's run " slam it in" mentality.
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Post: # 79765Post enigmaenigma

Not knocking anyone’s work, as I really enjoy reading the updates in this and other similar latest work threads.

But, I’m a bit confused .com …find the corner of the house wall / leg of metal cage on the left, and look north & south along the line of blocks after the edging row?

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Not just the loss of the herringbone in a bad way etc, but one looks decidedly wonky as well.
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Post: # 79766Post haggistini

I agree, what has happend is that there is a recess inside the bike shed of about 5 mm and the boys have followed that with the soldier course instead laying them straight and pointing it. There also looks like some poor half blocks too for the inboard cutting
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Post: # 79767Post haggistini

enigmaenigma wrote:Not knocking anyone’s work, as I really enjoy reading the updates in this and other similar latest work threads.

This is why I post pics as they are as it helps everyone, I'm not ashamed to show this work.
my own standards and ability are well documented BTW!
and the boys will only get better with time.
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Post: # 79769Post enigmaenigma

I’m probably talking out the back of my head…

But looking across from the corner and at the two cuts, where you would expect a full block going east – west and keeping the pattern, it looks as though it’s probably larger than a block length…hence the two cuts and all manner of other stuff getting knocked out of whack.

But even if that bit was block sized and allowed herringbone to still fall right there, it would create a nightmare with the rest around it…they wouldn’t be darts but slithers. :D

I suppose it begs a good question, where to start to laying avoid loosing the pattern…unlike wallpaper, tiles or laminate you cant chase it out towards the corners / edges or hide the feck up behind a skirting board, plinth or trim. :D




This is why I post pics as they are as it helps everyone, I'm not ashamed
To show this work as my own standards and ability are well documented!
and the boys will only get better with time.


It was with some of the handbags by other folks in the recent past, and I thought it better to post a disclaimer…as I didn’t want a genuine question from a regular lurker being misinterpreted as any of that “my spirit level is bigger, harder and better than yours� nonsense :D hehe

keep up the goodwork gents and keep posting the info & pics, as they are a great read :)
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Post: # 79775Post lutonlagerlout

they are trying to cut inboard,but it takes awhile to get in the flow of nothing less than a 1/3
my blokes still struggle with it
same as yourself haggis i would just run the stihl down some of those wonky cuts to make it look right to the eye,once the sand is in
all looks decent commercial work from here
not your private standard haggis but as you say its *slam it in*
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Post: # 79783Post local patios and driveway

Was one of the boys hanging his washing on the string line when laying rear 45degree edging?

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Post: # 79786Post GB_Groundworks

*sharpens hatchet* ;) haha

to my machine mans eye looks like there is a dip in those edgers by the hurricane fencing between first and 3 posts from teh left (mixer to the big post)

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