Recent work

[mike builder/landscaper]

Nice work tony, do you do your own rendering? And I've never seen the plastic edging before on the gable end, do they just screw into the tile lath like the dry verge.

[lutonlagerlout]

I can do little bits < 5 m otherwise the plasterers do it
they did both coats at 5:1:1 sand: cement: lime with a litre of waterproofer in every mix

the whole roof is dry there
ridge ,verge, and valley
I am not over keen on the look of it but it means no hold up in the wet/cold weather
cheers LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

fill in job

before


during




done waiting for bifold


these fields had never flooded for 25 years till yesterday


poxy rain
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

wind damage insurance work
got the call at 10.30 yesterday all cleared by 1






paul the skip driver wanted his photie took for reasons known only to himself




do think 2 foot of ivy on top of the wall might have helped the wind's work?
LLL

[mickg]

was the wall only a single skin ?

[lutonlagerlout]

it certainly was mick
we built 2 extensions on the house 12 and 15 years ago and i told him then to cut the ivy down
but he wouldnt listen
also walls adjacent to a footpath legally are only supposed to be 750mm without planning
but you know what people are like
I have refused to rebuild it in 4 inch
IMHO a fence with concrete posts and concrete gravel boards would be a better job
LLL

[r896neo]

Those bloody screen blocks didn't help either. I swear those things are deadly, there is such awful suction between them combined with tight joints that make them so unstable.

I have a client that leant on hers and 6 courses of them about 6ft high just flopped over. god help any children that play around them.

[lutonlagerlout]

in places where the ivy had gone through the deco blocks it was an inch thick
the job we did last year with 13 inch piers and hit and miss fence panels worked much better
you cannot beat the wind
LLL

[dig dug dan]

Level loads only on the skip ???

[msh paving]

^^^^ who said that Dan MSH

[Kuts]

id get same again in that skip :laugh:

[lutonlagerlout]

as kuts said it was only half full :;):
it was an emergency and the footpath had to be cleared and it was done pronto
wish we could get that much on every skip
LLL

[mickg]

well if you had your own mini digger you could bash it down with the bucket and get more in - LOL

[dig dug dan]

what was the skip licence cost on that or did they cheekily ignore it?

[lutonlagerlout]

the wall came down at 4 AM friday night

our remit was to make safe and clear the footpath ASAP

and that was exactly what we did

sometimes as we all know you have to make it happen

LLL