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Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 2:53 pm
by Tony McC
If, like me, you are wondering why we work outdoors in this god-forsaken climate, and want to take out your frustration on a desrving cause, please be my guest and advise chummy here just where to stick his so-called skills......
Sir I am doing a patio in Coventry and laid slab direct on earth which was sprikle with cement dust
now customer is complaing.
I say patio is fine because it doent have vehicle weights on it only foot, and all gaps in paving fill with Gripfill to bond it tighter.
Please make sure it is oK for light use because I did this work for only £450 for 30 squre meters and supply ecverything some was reclaimed.
And I've actually broken up the stream-of-unconsciousness style in which this gem was submitted by email!!
Names have been removed to protect the idiotic.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 3:13 pm
by Noony
We had half an hours rainfall and were two inches deep underfoot by the time we got back to the slabs, which wasnt helped by the fact they had ordered plastering sand, not sharp!! Sharp is coming in morning!
So if anything we have had quite a good day in comparison to my laddo!!
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:15 pm
by local patios and driveway
The mind boggles. Surely its a wind up by one of the lads on here?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:16 pm
by lutonlagerlout
that is the kind of ninja technique I have been looking for all these years 
if only I had thought of it before him
sprikle cement dust and gripfill for the joints
bingo! job's a good un
he will be getting a job on groundforce next
LMAO
LLL :laugh:
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:08 pm
by parishpaver
Anybody else think "myhammer" or "mybuilder" reading that?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:12 pm
by Mikey_C
would filling the joints with gripfill be classed a gunned joint?
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:20 pm
by Carberry
parishpaver wrote:Anybody else think "myhammer" or "mybuilder" reading that?
My first reaction was 'that has to be one of the regulars trolling the gaffer'.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 8:31 pm
by haggistini
Why didn't you get a pic for us gaffa…
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:20 pm
by DNgroundworks
yea mail him back and ask him for some pics Tony 
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 10:53 pm
by Al Jardin
Wasn't there a cement product you mixed with high mineral content soils that produced a bedding mortar?
Al
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:09 pm
by Carberry
Al Jardin wrote:Wasn't there a cement product you mixed with high mineral content soils that produced a bedding mortar?
Al
Did it have Tommy Walsh's face on it? :p
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 6:36 am
by mickavalon
We had 2" of Hail land on us yesterday afternoon, just managed to get everything tidied away and down it come. This last 5/6 weeks has cost me a fortune, you get in work, set up, make a start and then spend the rest of the day dodging showers and sticking up shelters, zero production. By the time you decide to call it a day, it's past half day and I've ended up paying the lads a full day for less than half days work!! Too be fair they've mainly offered to just be paid for work finished and not for standing around moaning.
I'm looking for a new skilled layer, can I have his number,just whats needed
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:10 am
by lutonlagerlout
same here mick
blokes that can be left unsupervised are like gold dust
we are building up a fair lead of building work ,but the 2 fellas 42 and 46 dont have the confidence to use their own initiative if I am not around,not dossers just used to doing what they are told
there is a big yellow thing in the sky right now?
LLL
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:02 pm
by henpecked
Judging by the grammar, its a 'migratory' builder/bodger. TBH 30m2 supplied for £450 isnt too bad, even if........Tony McC wrote: some was reclaimed.
Posted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:37 pm
by lutonlagerlout
poor guy sounds like he is from the indian sub continent
he is so wildly out with his pricing that in reality the customer shoulders some of the blame
30m = £1500 minimum in LLL's book and more like 3 grand
LL