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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:09 pm
by thegardensurgery
with the amount of rain we have had how as it affected business for you...we have had 3 big floods on gardens we have been working on...my fault for always picking retaining gardens...but our team is working thru the rain...but it`s getting to us a bit now.. !
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:29 pm
by Stuarty
Its not been as wet up here as down in parts of Englandshire but its still very wet nevertheless. It was like a propper summers day here til about 3 oclock. Then it just chucked it down. Im doing a patio for the folks at the moment too, as soon as i dug all the soil out, it hasnt stopped raining. So they have a pond at the moment :/ not the desired effect heh
Come back summer 
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:47 am
by Rich H
Mainly dry in the south east of England for the next couple of days and we're in a pointing frenzy, three to do today and tomorrow. All available tarps will be employed! I'm offski!
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 8:48 am
by Rich H
2 down - one to go. Got the tarps on the second one just before the heavens opened. Again.
Just of to Wycombe for the last one, clear blue skies for a change...
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:23 am
by seanandruby
benching a lot of live storm manholes at the minute, a lot of 225 and 500 pipes. why they didnt bench them when manholes where low i dont know. it takes days, rather than hours to do.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:19 am
by Tony McC
That always used to puzzle me. Why not bench the damned thing while it's one-ring high?
I always had our MHs benched at that stage, as it was so much faster, but I know many other civils contractors would leave benching until it was picked up on the snagging-for-adoption list and then have some young lad spend a week hunched in a small space, dropping grano into the live channel and dodging the corn-encrusted turds as they sailed past. Madness!
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:23 am
by seanandruby
its all about speed ( so they tell me ).done 50 so far on this job, 3 to go, then can rest me legs and back till next job. got one 5 metres deep main sewer with hundreds of toilets going in to do, always save the best till last a?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:35 pm
by Dave_L
Nice Sean! I'll think of you when I complain about knocking into an IC! 
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 7:51 am
by thegardensurgery
Persimmon have this nasty habit of putting rings on small half meter inspection drains in garden....a nightmare ! WHY !!!
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:22 am
by lutonlagerlout
money, TGS money 
i think the benching thing is a leftover from when the ICs were bricks and they didnt want mortar snots all over the benching,so they left it till last
on smaller ICs i have done the benching first then cut a bit of ply inside the bwk with rope through it ,which can be pulled up once the rest of the bwk is finished
cheers LLL
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:33 am
by seanandruby
for years Ive been building the last 2 3 4 course on a biscuit. i cut a square of ply 580/590 to stand on with some dpc tacked on the edges, this stops the snots messing up the channel and benching. i showed a time served brickie who thought i was "mad" to stand on the ply. how does he think we used to build all brick I said " that's what the corners are for". nothing worse than building them from the outside...back, arms, legs and neck fecking hurt. :laugh:
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:40 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i built some all class A IC's in edgeware 4 m high,had to be water tested too,ridiculous really
LLL
