The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:05 am**

looks superb cookie, what is it being pointed with ?

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:17 am**

Awesome stuff Cookie. You should get a knighthood

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:22 am**

It's being pointed with 6/1 sharp sand cement batched in buckets so no change to mix . It's made very wet to flow into joints then sweegie into joints . Then the pergo belt cleaner comes into play . I have bought 100 litres Eco chem cleaner Â£250 inc vat to etch the pointing to take the new look away it will in a few months look like over 100 years old . I have in the past used hydercloric acid 32 percent proof but is not user friendly or client friendly will have time lapse up for the pointing :p

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 9:32 am**

Cookie that's just amazing work, it looks fantastic cant wait for the time lapse but please please do a video of the pergo...

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:09 pm**

cookiewales wrote:It's being pointed with 6/1 sharp sand cement batched in buckets so no change to mix . It's made very wet to flow into joints then sweegie into joints . Then the pergo belt cleaner comes into play . I have bought 100 litres Eco chem cleaner Â£250 inc vat to etch the pointing to take the new look away it will in a few months look like over 100 years old . I have in the past used hydercloric acid 32 percent proof but is not user friendly or client friendly will have time lapse up for the pointing :p

Truly superb work.

Have you stopped pointing with the resins and Is the way you're going to do pointing from now on?

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:29 pm**

Been pointing this way for thirty years plus but to use resin would be 20k plus and would still need to top setts to within 25 mm of the top

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:29 pm**

You beat me to the question there Bob. I'm assuming that the sand and cement is much cheaper to do and the investment of the belt cleaner means the residue can be easily removed ?

Tell me I'm right Cookie ?

Posted: **Fri Jun 21, 2013 4:35 pm**

London Stone Paving wrote:You beat me to the question there Bob. I'm assuming that the sand and cement is much cheaper to do and the investment of the belt cleaner means the residue can be easily removed ?

Tell me I'm right Cookie ?

You are right on paving resin wins hands down on setts slurry wins unless the client has buckets of money resin is by far the quicker but I have had 20 ton diggers with steel tracks on setts with no problem on slurry will have the time lapse camera up for it

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 2:47 pm**

new job started this week
before

DDD's crusher @work

footings in blockwork monday

LLL

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:29 pm**

^^^What's going on... i spy a mini digger...

MSH

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:42 pm**

msh paving wrote:^^^What's going on... i spy a mini digger...

MSH

It must just be for show tony loves digging

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 4:46 pm**

if i can use them i do, access was 1400mm so 1 tonne digger and dumper worked fine
LLL

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:17 pm**

Whats the plan LLL? Do you have a design we can look at?

Posted: **Sat Jun 22, 2013 8:52 pm**

we were going to do a 9 inch wall to match the house
but after seeing london stone's display the client wants cladding to match the flags ,also mason finished copings in matching stone
its a good sized lump of a patio and we are hoping to infill where needed with our home grown crushed
got a chimney to point tomorrow then onto the 9 inch conkers monday :;):
LLL

Posted: **Sun Jun 23, 2013 2:21 pm**

this weekends work

long way up

raked out

easipoint historic lime mortar

finished

the client and his gardener did this patio +no comment

cheers LLL

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