The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Sun Apr 20, 2014 4:21 pm**

first 19 metres of gabions in

and backfilled with 40mm clean and 6f2

we can now pile this and pour the ring beam and sit the new extension on and drop the semi finished swimming pool and break it out.

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Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:13 pm**

started another factory refit, new locker rooms, toilets. workshops and laboratories this week pictures to follow.

started demolishing the swimming pool on the other job big 11m long 500 high ub was interesting getting it off

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 5:58 pm**

Just finished a nice Tegular patio. Only my 3rd paving job of the year but I have them lined up back to back now for the next couple of months and I'm putting quotes out all the times so hopefully I'll be able to post in this thread a bit more often.

link to photos

edit by giles

actually i give up too many

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Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 6:31 pm**

tidy looking work sy
flicking through good to see the use of kneepads and lines
1 question what do you use to stop the sand running out of the steps?
i have started using clear silicon on the inside of any area where KDS sand can run out
cheers LLL

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 6:44 pm**

Thanks Tony. That's a nice drive and steps that you did recently too.

On the kerbs I lined the inside with damp sand and cement. Silicone is a good idea though and I'll that in the future.

We used a 50/50 split of tegular traditional and autumn mix for the main and I think it looks really nice.
The only thing I'm not happy with is not being able to haunch the inside. When I lay tegs I always lay all my edging blocks on at least 4" of concrete and haunch it up unless there is a kerb there. I don't think that standard concrete edgings look right next to tegs.

There is astro turf going in the centre of that lot though and appantley I can't haunch it because they have to batton it out.
I've never laid any my self so I didn't know but if I had then I would have put a concrete edging around the inside. We live and learn.

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 6:46 pm**

There is astro turf going in the centre of that lot though and appantley I can't haunch it because they have to batton it out.
I've never laid any my self so I didn't know but if I had then I would have put a concrete edging around the inside. We live and learn.

batten it out?? what a load of cod. astro turf is not laid using battens. They sound like clowns

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 7:18 pm**

onions doing ok at the allotment,the guy in the background is jim sheridan 80 last week
legend

trying to stop the polysulphide mastic going over the bricks

before

after

a recent disabled wet room adaption almost complete

victorian blue pavers 6 inches by a foot and 1 1/2 inches thick
classy stuff

bricking up a back door today with chiltern blend bricks

a bit of weatherstruck pointing,overall a fair match for luton greys

being ripping out ceilings and walls mainly not much of interest
LLL

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 7:23 pm**

The only info I've had is second hand. As I started haunching the inside of the area the astro turf is going the client asked me If there was enough room for the turf, I said there should be as I'd left the haunching an inch from the top. He then told me that he'd spoken to the lady in the office and she'd told him there were batterns going around the inside of my paing to secure the perimiter of there turf so I got rid of the haunching after explaining the dangers of not having a retaining edge.

Not much more I could do without speaking to the bloke laying it and I couldn't get hold of him.

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 6:34 am**

Neat work lll, I like the bricks.

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 6:41 am**

dig dug dan wrote:
There is astro turf going in the centre of that lot though and appantley I can't haunch it because they have to batton it out.
I've never laid any my self so I didn't know but if I had then I would have put a concrete edging around the inside. We live and learn.

batten it out?? what a load of cod. astro turf is not laid using battens. They sound like clowns

I've had two quotes for my garden off the big companies like nomow etc and another one and they spec'd batterns to hold it down rd edges and they're the manufacturers!

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 5:53 pm**

Here's a slabbing job I did last week. I did the job for a property developer. He had sold the house to an old couple that wanted low maintanence so he wanted it done cheap as chips which meant that I had to take every short cut and cut every corner in the book.

The sub base is 50mm mot, 25mm sand and cement screed bed and 10mm joint pointed with a 3/1 mix.

I had to take a couple of tree stumps out and a BT line came up with one of them.

I don't think the finished job look's to bad but I doubt it will last and neither does the client.

I hate doing jobs like that, it's one of the reasons I got out of commercial paving.

Here's the pics

[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7205....mg]IMG_1601 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7320....mg]IMG_1602 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5231....mg]IMG_1603 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039....mg]IMG_1610 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067....mg]IMG_1631 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353....mg]IMG_1632 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5537....mg]IMG_1633 by sy76uk, on Flickr

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 6:26 pm**

that is alot more than some "developers" (big or small) manage round these parts. I'm walking past a large building site every day at the moment I will try and get photos are the calamities they are doing.

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 7:03 pm**

and that sy is why I wont work for 3rd parties

nice installation, but I CBA listening to developers telling me that the job is *tight* and they need it doing on a low budget

when they are pulling 60k a unit

LLL

Posted: **Fri May 02, 2014 7:32 pm**

Micky-c I know what your saying. Most of the work I see in general weather it's commercial or domestic is pretty shocking. I'm lucky to have been taught by my Dad who is a shit hot paver.

He always taught me that the job comes first and how much you make from that job comes second because if you cut corners and take a lot of money for bad work then the your own work will dry up or the company your working for will either sack you or give you all the crap the other gangs don't want.

Tony, I wish I had the luxury of not having too. The Bloke I did this job for owns half of Leicester city centre along with the rest of his family. He's loaded, When it comes down to doing his own house or one of his family's he might spend a bit but he didn't care about this one.

Funny thing is all the neighbours came out saying how much nicer it looked and wanted me to put quotes in for there patio's and driveways too.

I didn't go and quote for any of them. Not the kind of area or the kind of people I wan't to be working in or for IYKWIM.

Posted: **Fri May 09, 2014 7:24 pm**

I went and took some more photo's of the tegular patio I finished a few week's back now that the astro turfs down.
[img]https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5553....mg]IMG_1634 by sy76uk, on Flickr
[img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7457....mg]IMG_1643 by sy76uk, on Flickr
I really like the stuff.

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