Page 108 of 315
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:42 pm
by lutonlagerlout
my eyes!!
jeez haggi has your camera been on acid?
nice work you and dave
pain making the membrane work around that lot dave?
LLL
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:49 pm
by haggistini
Sorry luton the originals....
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:00 pm
by Dave_L
lutonlagerlout wrote:nice work you and dave
pain making the membrane work around that lot dave?
LLL
Yeah it's gonna be a right ballache, lots of tape and lapped joints, corner strentheners against the RIW. Setting that lot out was a right brain-ache but we've checked and triple-checked positions and we're good to go.
We've cut 300x300 squares out of scrap celotex for to go around the pipework to allow a degree of adjustment after the pour.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:28 pm
by DNgroundworks
Made a start today on 100m plus of an oak sleeper retaining wall, the sleepers are being cut down by carpenter and the tops carved into a "twisting rope effect"... whatever that is.
Man..there heavy.
very intricate design going off down the garden, will post pics of progress.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:07 pm
by matty brock
Cant belive how dry that ground looks on the 2nd lot of photies ! It hasnt stopped raining for weeks up North, you dont know how lucky you are down there 
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:14 pm
by matty brock
Ignore me, just noticed the picture I was commenting on was from August 2010......Its been a long day
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:29 pm
by Dave_L
Membrane in and fibreboard placed, all ready for a 7am kick off. Wasn't too fiddly in the end, me and a good bloke with a knife & tape had the main of it in by 11am.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:40 pm
by haggistini
Nice and neat dave you'll be sipping cider by dinner time tomorrow
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:51 pm
by lutonlagerlout
that oversite has made me smile dave
a work of art in my eyes
loving the celotex around the pipes
will remember that one
LLL
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:01 pm
by mickg
very neat job Dave
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 8:13 pm
by Dave_L
Thanks for the kind comments chaps!
The celotex came out of the skip from a site next door, they were more than happy to see it go! It will give us a bit of easement on the drainage connections when it comes to partition/studwork etc
The link corridor and ramped sections (2 x 150mm ramps) from the existing building is a tricky old affair. Full of underground tunnels housing heating pipework to the boilerhouse, manhole covers and drainage!
Think we'll pour that with the driest pump mix we can, leave it for a while then stir it into place at the lowest (flat) level on the main ramp.
Heating & hot water pipework we discovered underneath our dig!! Complicated the levels a little, big internal manhole cover going over this lot.
Other than that, I expect to be digging in the final foul connection pipework to the connection to the existing infrastructure by just after dinnertime. Then it'll be cider-time! 
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 12:49 pm
by peg basher
with the pop-ups i like to triple wrap them with brickfill or myothene with a blank cap on and set them 5-10 mm below concrete level so they can be easifloated or powerfloated straight over. next day whilst the conc is still green just break the top off with a hammer. It helps keeps the finish nice and level with no dips of peaks around pop-ups and also stops them getting smashed later on.
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:26 pm
by dig dug dan
cracking stuff as always. But where did the silver birch tree go?
Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:29 pm
by haggistini
Feck I thought you was tarmacing the whole threshold! thank feck you didn't!!!
what the fcuk is that BTW
:laugh:
Could do witha few more passes of the whacker I think a few lips central
Recess tray is freaky spot on
Job looks very nice
is that a goldwing in the garage just out of interest!
:p
