I always use the arris brackets. Cheaper than buying morticed posts and if you screw them instead of nails you can remove or repair sections easily, plus they are galvanised.
are you sure? 6 brackets per post , at wickes prices, thats £9.9
8' 4 x 4 post. £7.59, morticed post, £10.49
So therefore using brackets is £7 more expensive, plus screws, and you need someone to hold the arriss up while you screw it to the post.
Dan the Crusher Man
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Hi fellas been offline for a while partly due to a faulty phone line up the road and the rest due to the arrival of a new daughter 3 weeks back. Can't say there's been many times in my life that I've been much busier than I am just now but starting to get a handle on it and settle back into work.
Had the lads working away at this mainly doing drainage and digger work but started on the hardscaping mid last week once I was back on site.
Lovely kerbs 1200 long bush hammered finish and only cost £19 each
Found some old quions and copings buried in the garden when we were levelling the ground so cleaned and dressed them up and used them under the porch and made some steps to.
Porch still needs finishing with fascia raingear and some varnish also gotta figure a way of boxing those metal feet in neatly.
What have I missed over the last few weeks bound to have been a few handbags thrown.
Congratulations Pablo. Is that 3 youngsters now? That's some work load.
Those post look like they've rotted at the base. Any crete round them?
Read an article on landscape juice about installing posts a while back. Reccomended not to cup the bottom of the post with concrete as it can hold moisture. Instead put a couple of inches of ballast in the hole, place post then concrete around it. Allows moisture to escape.
Coming on nice Pablo well done on the new arrival BTW .I'm loving the steps you dug up I bet the customer was pleased you made a feature out of some historical find on the property that's always a nice touch..
Was on my own for the start of the week as the boys let me down again! Anyway had to kick on and ill be working all weekend
Going back a few posts, lovely mitres on the kerbs, Pablo, and commiserations on the babby ... not to worry, it only takes about 25 years for them to grow out of the crying, mewling, begging and demanding stage.
Tony McC wrote:Going back a few posts, lovely mitres on the kerbs, Pablo, and commiserations on the babby ... not to worry, it only takes about 25 years for them to grow out of the crying, mewling, begging and demanding stage.
Then they give you grandkids and it starts all over :;): :laugh:
At least we can hand them back when we get pissed off with them, which seems to be never for some inexplicable reason :p
It does make complete sense. Our kids have grown and as the boss describes become a right pain, as we do to them i must admit. With the g'kids it is like we are getting a second chance to put right the mistakes we and our children made. Got my youngest grandaughter here ( every fortnight ) she not only takes up all the living room with toys etc; she also has full rights to ceebeebies and now she is awake, comes into our room and 'kicks' me out of bed and takes my warm side lay's there with the wife to watch .....ceebebbies, aarrrgggghhhh!!! :;): :laugh: Love her to bits.
