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seanandruby
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Post: # 68339Post seanandruby

i think most guys on here use mobile phones due to being out working all day. If the photos and text aren't up to standard then just imagine us up to our necks in water, mud, or shite but still dedicated enough to visit the brew cabin to offer our twopennorth. :;):
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Post: # 68341Post Carberry

seanandruby wrote:i think most guys on here use mobile phones due to being out working all day. If the photos and text aren't up to standard then just imagine us up to our necks in water, mud, or shite but still dedicated enough to visit the brew cabin to offer our twopennorth. :;):
That and I keep on forgetting my good camera.

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Pablo wrote:The courier you used was on the ball by the way.

You were lucky there Paul. They are usually complete numpties. We had a lorry in too our place today delivering a container. The guy sat in his cab drinking coffee and eating sandwiches while we unloaded the can. After we had finished he asked me if there was anywhere he could park the lorry while he took a tacho break. No business needs staff like that

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Post: # 68457Post Carberry

Poor effort at Drystone walling, Not done it before, got the stone for free and did it for the customer as a freebie
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70m2 driveway / path / red decking:

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decking (customer wanted it, not me :D
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Fence from same job:
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Driveway:
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Monoblock curve porn:
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Post: # 68458Post Carberry

Laid a concrete slab for an autogas tank:
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50m2 of fossil mint sandstone from Londonstone:
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Same job at night:
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Before:
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After (30m2 of fossil mint sandstone from Londonstone):
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Picket fence, same job as above:
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Steps:
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Driveway gates I was asking about hanging:
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70m2 of sawn harvest sandstone from Londonstone, started laying it today:
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lutonlagerlout
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Post: # 68463Post lutonlagerlout

nice tidy work carberry
did you use easipoint natural on that first patio?
I find the natural colour way too grey for most sandstone
sandstone works for me,kinda buff colour
i think coursed work is the way forward,random is way too much of a ballbreaker IMHO
good stuff
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Post: # 68464Post Carberry

lutonlagerlout wrote:nice tidy work carberry
did you use easipoint natural on that first patio?
I find the natural colour way too grey for most sandstone
sandstone works for me,kinda buff colour
i think coursed work is the way forward,random is way too much of a ballbreaker IMHO
good stuff
LLL :)

Thanks LLL.
Easipoint natural on first patio, second was just 4:1 building sand cement.

Given the choice I would rather do coursed, because random is a ball breaker as you say, but if I think random will look better or if customer wants random then I will lay random. I also hate those bloody 1x1s in random patterns and idiots dancing on them asking why they're rocking.

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Post: # 68512Post lutonlagerlout

doing some odds and sods at the minute
we took out a 1970s fake fireplace this week and found a number of artefacts that the bricklayer had built in to the voids===> as you do
firstly he signs and dates the wall
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then he scribbles "standy genius at work"
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he does the crossword then builds the paper into the void

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various fag packets ,coke cans,rizla,mallows packets also get built in
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judging by the fag packets and coke cans it took him 3 days to build (big fireplace)

kevin doyle nice job mate,if you are still with us :)
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Post: # 68513Post rab1

a man that took a pride. god bless
God loves a tryer

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Post: # 68515Post lutonlagerlout

i sign off a lot of stuff in unusual places
signed the girders above the 757 flight simulator when i was 15 at brittania airways in luton, and we nearly always put a silver coin under the first brick laid on any job
for luck............................
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Post: # 68721Post lutonlagerlout

continuing the eternal recent work thread,myself and pete the fabricator installed this double handrail today
stuff like this post crete comes into its own
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obviously i did the digging etc and pete did the technical stuff
:)
knocking a chimney down tomorrow
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Post: # 68786Post Pablo

Finished this yesterday another garden levelling and patio job . Done a few jobs like them this year clients are trying to get more from their homes rather than move.
Before
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During
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After (as if that needs explaning).
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I'm converted to coursed flags
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House and fence getting painted next week weather permitting.
Was a few years ago but surprised the better half with a spa break a few weeks back and had a lovely view from our room of a sedum roof we installed.
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Lots of hardscaping coming up and no soft scaping just what you want in the wetter months.:)
Can't see it from my house

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Post: # 68791Post rab1

looks great, you did a no bad job there. :;):
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Post: # 68795Post lutonlagerlout

i cannot believe with that eye for detail pablo that you couldnae work out how to upload photos for 4 years :)
outstanding work there
is that a takeuchi?
we have a 5 tonner coming tuesday to help us out,great machines
total transformation
very nice
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Post: # 68796Post lutonlagerlout

oh yeah,and when i next get the chance its coursed flags all the way
looks so much more contemporary and neater than random
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