The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:25 pm**

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 Â£9.9
8' 4 x 4 post. Â£7.59, morticed post, Â£10.49
So therefore using brackets is Â£7 more expensive, plus screws, and you need someone to hold the arriss up while you screw it to the post.

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:10 pm**

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 Â£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.

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:59 pm**

gratz on the new bairn pablo

work looks sweet
maybe get summat made out of copper???

dan i think we are talking from 2 inch cut out to solid
2 inch out of 5 inch is fine with a dowel
but asking for trouble from a 4 inch post
cheers LLL

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:13 pm**

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.

Al

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:22 pm**

Great news Pablo, you've got your hands full now. Those kerbs are an absolute deal !

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 6:02 am**

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

And fcuk Jack Frost

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:29 am**

ive taught you well haggster keep up the good work

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:06 am**

looking very good haggis
LLL

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:47 am**

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.

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:51 pm**

Started at 7 finished by 3:30 ultra scape flow point at some point this week
Good days graft for a Saturday morning

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:52 pm**

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:59 pm**

7 till 330 is a full day, did you really do all this in one day, looks fantastic

Posted: **Sat Dec 01, 2012 9:44 pm**

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

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:58 am**

most grandparents i know (mates) love the babies more than their kids,if that makes sense
LLL

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2012 8:21 am**

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.

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