The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 1:07 pm**

weve just been asked to tender for a Â£90k extension on the market in hulme in manchester, its on a pedestrianised street, its going to be a fun one...

so catch up

dave: 1 x semi skilled, thats a bit rich calling yourself semi skilled

hehe

dave: i drive on the snake pass and guarenteed an 3 series or a4 will b on your ass then overtake in a stupid spot and risk the lives of 3 other cars....

never seen a 3 series driven sensibly

nice work tony, we always offset the horizontals but its pasload nails all the way

i'll catch up when ive got some time, we are almost up to damp on rugby club just the 2x 150mm single skin walls to do and then slabs next week. the big house the roof is now on and felted on the tower extension, bricky is finishing block work then off back to big house for 3 day while we get slabs in then back to us, got 105m2 of 100 and 150mm dense concret block on site and another 95m2 coming on friday. thanks god for having 2 js130s knew it was a good idea to keep the old girl, labourer loving me placing a pack of block exactly where he wants to stack out, got about 4.5 m reach so can get most places with a full pack.

got a fun one to do though, the 1982 extension on the rugbyclub has the polystyrene bead cavity wall insulation, i cut one brick out for brick match and it was like an avalanche had to hammer a common in to stop it.

so gotta cut cavities and put a 5000x 305x127x48 UB in

im thinking drilling 20mm holes every 400mm rd the hole and firing in some expanding foam to try and bind it together.

anyone had experience or ideas with the snow storm insulation???

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 1:24 pm**

roof done

nice little job cracked out in 2 days

giles that insulation was supposed to have glue in it

we had one pedant in meppershall who said to us we had to replace the 14 binliners that fell out when we cut a door way

i told him to get his guarantee out,and on the guarentee it clearly states that all the beads are injected with glue

what happens is the installers dont use it so the stuff goes in quicker

just sweep it up ,do the job then let them come and redo it
its not expensive
LLL

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 3:24 pm**

weve got a 5mx3m section to cut out, and its outside its the mess im worried about and the clean up time

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:15 pm**

sorry tony but the lead on chimney is not good. is it the original.

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:46 pm**

digerjones wrote:sorry tony but the lead on chimney is not good. is it the original.

I don't do roofing but looks ok to me apart from the slight gap between the tile an lead.
What's so bad about it?

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:59 pm**

its better than the original dylan
because there was none!
just had cement fillets all round which leaked
I didnt do the lead ,but hands up it was my job so i am accountable

the old lady is well happy as we saved her Â£2k on what the pikeys wanted
its hard to see but there were a lot of issues with the roof being 100mm out of square and the chimney has seen better days
I gave her my word its leak proof now and a 10 year guarantee
LLL

Posted: **Sun Aug 19, 2012 11:21 pm**

ok tony you've helded your hands up. the roof been 4'' out of square is no excuse for the flashing. i'm doing roof and flashing this week i will ave to borrow camra as mine has been broke for a bit. the osd comes to mind with the lead ha ha

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:41 am**

I give it ,so i have to take it :;):
looking forward to your pics dylan
LLL

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 9:24 am**

I don t know much about flashing, but it looks tidy. I will await to be educated

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:00 pm**

another day, another job
bit of tarmac repair so i though i would try instarmac's ultracrete
primer

3 tubs of this

finish

spent the rest of the day setting up a harmer gully for the floor screed
the instarmac seemed better than the bagged stuff (its 4 times more expensive) but wacked in reasonably well,although not as tight as fresh gear
will see how it has set tomorrow
LLL

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 6:13 pm**

continuation of previously posted job

Sawn and sandblasted sandstone from london stone, and a specially cut circle. 8mm joints, laid on a 150mm reinforced concrete slab.

the circle:

spot the mistake. Cannot blame the customer who ordered, or london stone, but the last two bits of the circle were not long enough (not allowed for overhang of the wall! so we cut two new pieces in!

the circle came numbered and with a diagram where all pieces should go. We used 8mm window frame spacers for the joints, and it all fitted perfectly. Just tricky getting the centre stone spot on where it had to go!

Edited By dig dug dan on 1345482890

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:01 pm**

Stone looks great and really nice job, my one niggle would be the squaring off kit not lining up with the coursing.

It really draws the eye because of the simplicity of the single sized coursed laying probably wouldn't jump out so much on a random layout.

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:18 pm**

^^ I have never been keen on squaring off kits although they do work well especially at alleviating those pesky internal arc cuts
very very contemporary,is it still getting covered over with some kind of glass house?
looks like wallpaper dan ,nice work

LLL

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:39 pm**

it annoyed us, and we spent most of the morning trying to line it up, but it would have meant some slither cuts in silly places, which would have looked worse!
I think if the stretcher bond had been at 90 degrees, it would have worked but customer wanted it this way.
yes, it is getting covered by a shed!

Posted: **Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:49 pm**

I don't think there is too much adrift with your step flashing Tone!

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