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Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:32 am
by matt h
full gas heaitng systems, bathrooms kitchens, loft conversions, conservatories, roofing, porchways, paving and patios, landscaping, double glazing, insulation, woodworm and rot treatment, etc, etc all aspects of carpentry and gas installations:)
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:47 am
by yourgardenworks.co.uk
How many staff do you employ then Matt? Your surely not a one man band looking at that list,
What the hell are weather struck joints then William ?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:55 am
by GB_Groundworks
this is weatherstruck pointing
not sure how you do it on a patio though?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:34 am
by Nigel Walker
Majority of our work is Block Paved Driveways. We also do flagged patios and general hard landscaping work
For Walling and Fencing we sub-contract to tried and trusted people as it then leaves us free to lay drives - which is where we make the most money !
Have not been templted to diverse into Home Maintenence etc as we get more than enough work coming in for driveways
We do offer a pressure washing service, but find that we dont make nowhere near as much money from this as laying drives so we are now sub-contracting the pressure washing !!
Even when sub-contracting, I am personally involved in every job.
I used to do the whole Building Services thing, but 7 years ago decided to concentrate just on Paving. It was a very wise decision that has paid huge dividends.
Nigel
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 3:42 pm
by mouldmaker
We make stuff. Copings, pier caps, window sills... or anything else in concrete. Doing lots and lots of bespoke stuff.
http://www.albionart.co.uk
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:07 pm
by yourgardenworks.co.uk
Nigel Walker wrote:Majority of our work is Block Paved Driveways. We also do flagged patios and general hard landscaping work
For Walling and Fencing we sub-contract to tried and trusted people as it then leaves us free to lay drives - which is where we make the most money !
Have not been templted to diverse into Home Maintenence etc as we get more than enough work coming in for driveways
We do offer a pressure washing service, but find that we dont make nowhere near as much money from this as laying drives so we are now sub-contracting the pressure washing !!
Even when sub-contracting, I am personally involved in every job.
I used to do the whole Building Services thing, but 7 years ago decided to concentrate just on Paving. It was a very wise decision that has paid huge dividends.
Nigel
Hi Nigel, your advert in the whitehaven news was top class mate. Thank god for Bnfl or whatever they call it now eh, who knows what state we would be in without it.
Mould maker, do you not make flags aswell as everything else ?
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:48 pm
by williams
GB_Groundworks wrote:this is weatherstruck pointing
not sure how you do it on a patio though?
weatherstruck or some may call it birdsbeak, basically a struck joint and not ironed or swept in.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:53 pm
by williams
The only half decent close up pic of what i (rightly or wrongly) call weatherstruck/bridsbeak on a granite job i did.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:49 pm
by lutonlagerlout
thats birdsbeak williams,weatherstruck is 1 way angled only,generally with the most protruding part at the bottom to shed water
its very very slow
LLL
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:14 pm
by williams
lutonlagerlout wrote:thats birdsbeak williams,weatherstruck is 1 way angled only,generally with the most protruding part at the bottom to shed water
its very very slow
LLL
That took bloody forever too :laugh:
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 5:11 pm
by mouldmaker
yourgardenworks.co.uk wrote:Mould maker, do you not make flags aswell as everything else ?
Indeed we do. Cheap-as-chips generic yorkstone repro currently, new super-duper stuff next year.