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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:14 pm
by cookiewales
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:46 pm
by cookiewales
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:19 pm
by GB_Groundworks
is that an incubator glowing in the alleyway?
non standard engine in that belle mixer with a old style crank handle?
lovely work as usual cookie, nice house as well few quid i bet down in the smoke
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:37 pm
by lutonlagerlout
lovely job coooky
why,I wonder did that wall have that batter?
doesnt make sense
LLL
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 12:15 am
by Kuts
Thats some nice sett work.
Do you know where i can get some decent setts near Wetherby? i only need about 90 linear meters but my usual supplier wants £140+vat a bag.
i use them on most jobs but their getting like rocking horse shit.
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:03 am
by mickg
nice job Cookie
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:49 am
by cookiewales
GB_Groundworks wrote:is that an incubator glowing in the alleyway?
non standard engine in that belle mixer with a old style crank handle?
lovely work as usual cookie, nice house as well few quid i bet down in the smoke
cheers house is in Peckham rye one side Georgian houses opposite side dell boy villas maisonettes and high rise house still worth 3.5 mil 600 meters to Peckham high St. through flats 
big yin was not a fan of starting it with handle :p
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:59 am
by cookiewales
lutonlagerlout wrote:lovely job coooky
why,I wonder did that wall have that batter?
doesnt make sense
LLL
there were ten houses in a row they all had them very awkward to build bottom of wall 15 inch back plum for about 2 foot front leaning in slowly was not tied together bond was mix of flemish all snap headers top end battered more we used stainless steel ties to help copings hold it together .was very happy footing and bottom half of wall was good /i thought it would be a nightmare but rebuilt in two days then put copings on next day .every one man and his dog were asking me to do work for them :p
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:05 am
by cookiewales
Kuts wrote:Thats some nice sett work.
Do you know where i can get some decent setts near Wetherby? i only need about 90 linear meters but my usual supplier wants £140+vat a bag.
i use them on most jobs but their getting like rocking horse shit.
try allan at Abacus Stone Sales: Yorkshire's biggest supplier of Yorkstone Flags
www.abacus-stone-sales.co.uk/‎
Abacus Stone Sales in Holmfirth is Yorkshire's largest stone merchant, with a range of reclaimed Yorkstone flags, cobbles, and new building stone in stock.
Hagg Wood Quarry, Woodhead Road, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire HD9 6PW, United Kingdom
+44 7711 997026 tell him cookie deals in beer vouchers aswell
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 9:38 am
by GB_Groundworks
we've got two of the belles one is electric start diesel and other is 110v
110v doesn't like starting up though sometime have to help the drum to start great mixers though for that kind of work
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:07 pm
by sy76uk
Lovely job there Cookie. That will still be looking nice a long time after my cpb driveways have faded and become weed infested.
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:51 pm
by Dave_L
Beautiful work to both see going down in those lovely lines and the finished result. You should be very proud of what you've achieved there 
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:04 pm
by John156
Very nice job Cooky, this is near me. I've driven past it a few times and wondered why it had been left excavated for so long, now it makes sense. How come they dug out so deep? Must have been a nightmare road to work on... very tidy job though
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 7:13 am
by cookiewales
John156 wrote:Very nice job Cooky, this is near me. I've driven past it a few times and wondered why it had been left excavated for so long, now it makes sense. How come they dug out so deep? Must have been a nightmare road to work on... very tidy job though
road was a nightmare would say lack of exp but they did okay job on patio at rear in reclaimed york and pointing of house 9 m3 leanmix concrete fixed it could not use type 1 ground to wet had to put down semi dry and use plank to level walking on them whacker would have been no go :p
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:37 pm
by DempseyLiverpool
Great work Cookie. I never tire of seeing those setts go down, they always look the business.
first day on job contractor did a runner ribble reclamation recomended us to sort out regency wall about to fall over 
electric hi and dry 
wall falling over after 130 years or more 7 foot x 2 foot portland stone copings holding wall together we had to cut them down insitu to safely lift of 
wall fell over after cutting copings 
9 m3 leanmix concrete laid on wet london clay 
laying the rest of leanmix 
lean mix laid and bricks cleaned and stacked setts arrived on site no room to move 
lamb shoulder cooking in halogen oven for tea 
setts laid to front now need to move setts by hand to lay to wall 
change of levels front of house to rear entrance 
the big yin no where to mix 
path to front door done 
slurry 3/1 before resin 
regency wall rebuilt using as many as old bricks i could 
wall built to same batter as 130 years ago copings back on 
ready for resin romex basalt 