[Closed] Rate my Brickie....

best thread in ages. 🙂

saying that, a time laps video of the shed being built would have been quite cool too

Pre school wed and thurs, and he's tiling the neighbours roof the other days....

DrP

I'm paying £150/day for the brickie, which is generous, but this is Cambridge, so there is no recession and no shortage of building work, so prices haven't fallen at all in the last 5 years. The biggest problem is finding anyone free.

The biggest problem is finding anyone [b]competent who's[/b] free...

Good luck.

NB For the whole project I had quotes between £30k and £40k, hence I went down the DIY route as that was pretty insane. My father in law is a QS and priced it at £12-£15k depending on material choice / finish. E.g. to keep planning happy I'm using hand made imperial bricks for the front face.

Edit: I'm in a conservation area, so need planning to take a tree down or change the colour of my front door...

**** me!
Do you have a room to rent?
I'd even sleep in the shed if.....

Pre school wed and thurs, and he's tiling the neighbours roof the other days....
DrP

Think I just peed a bit 🙂

Pre school wed and thurs, and he's tiling the neighbours roof the other days....

DrP

Week after?

So, 30 bricks and 40 blocks for 150 quid.

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Edit: I'm in a conservation area, so need planning to take a tree down or change the colour of my front door...

As an aside please keep an eye on how he bonds the pillars in down the main wall as that's a fair stretch for single skin, and the front elevation wants to be block bonded around the corner onto the main walls! Don't let him take the block work up straight nick then build the front separately!

**** me!
Do you have a room to rent?
I'd even sleep in the shed if.....

Sounds great until you realise that everything costs more here - it's a little central London driven bubble in the heart of East Anglia. Salaries are higher, but house prices, rent, food, tradespeople, transport, shops, all cost more....

Edit: I'm in a conservation area, so need planning to take a tree down or change the colour of my front door...

I did notice the nesting area of the 12:45 from Peterborough in the background.

As an aside please keep an eye on how he bonds the pillars in down the main wall as that's a fair stretch for single skin, and the front elevation wants to be block bonded around the corner onto the main walls! Don't let him take the block work up straight nick then build the front separately!

Butterfly ties in the piers. The Engineer specified one every 2m. As for the front, the imperial bricks don't line up well with the blocks so the plan is to use a metal frame thing bolted to a straight edge of blocks and fold down the ties at the right level for the brick mortar lines....

I did notice the nesting area of the 12:45 from Peterborough in the background.

Apparently we're an outstanding example of Victorian architecture / town planning which must be preserved for future generations. Basically means there are zero changes you can make without full planning inc removing trees / fences etc and any application can be refused on aesthetic grounds.

Personally I think it's quite a grotty area of town and could do with some major modernisation....

Imperials. Lovely!

Sack him!!!!!! **** me pal thats poor progress

A skydiver a brick 😯

Jesus 😳

Apparently we're an outstanding example of Victorian architecture / town planning

The galvanised rails, the electrified lines and that monstrosity opposite you that gives it all away as Victorian.

Yep, I was pretty gobsmacked we were made a Conservation area...

saying that, a time laps video of the shed being built would have been quite cool too

That's going to be one hell of a long video!

Yep, I was pretty gobsmacked we were made a Conservation area...

It's probably Number 88's bin. Defo looks Victorian.

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I bet if it was a fixed price job he would have it done by the weekend.

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask. Ah Victorian England.

This is exactly what i was talking about in another post, get quotes first and use a tradesman who friends have used and come reccomended. And if you have to wait for a good lad its worth it, if they can start tomorrow just think why??? No work in due to what reason???

Wthell is going on with him, I do odd bit of dry stone walling as an intermediate st mason and can prep and put up quite well positioned imho stone quicker than what that scruff bag in the photo on orig post looka like if the info we are going on is factual which it no doubt is.

You need that short bald sexually stunted bloke off TV to come a knockin on his back door!

Lol!

I hope you're not planning on putting any bikes with fashionably wide bars in there. Doesn't look like they'll get through the door once the frame is fitted.

Note: there are villages around the Cambridge area for the peasants to live in (I.e. me)

🙂

footflaps - Member

The galvanised rails, the electrified lines and [b]that monstrosity opposite you[/b] that gives it all away as Victorian.

Yep, I was pretty gobsmacked we were made a Conservation area...

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Can't see an Orange five in the picture?

I was a plasterer; he is taking the piss with his progress, having said that,if you are paying day rates I will drive down and harl it for you

Is the doorway big enough to get everything in? looks small? May struggle if youve got any large equipment, fridges etc?

That block of block on the right of the street pic looks like its going to tople over?

toby1 - Member

Note: there are villages around the Cambridge area for the peasants to live in (I.e. me)

Those of us a few steps above peasant but several steps below Cambridge Mill Road's "unique independent character*" live in Ely...

*This means they’re not allowed a Sainsbury’s

Phone him on his mobile pretending to be another customer. Offer him a job starting next Monday, paying him £150 a day...

Is the doorway big enough to get everything in? looks small? May struggle if youve got any large equipment, fridges etc?

Doorway will be 1800mm, so plenty wide enough. Doorways go on top of two courses of bricks, the gap is to allow him to brush the water out as it's been pissing down all week here.

That block of block on the right of the street pic looks like its going to tople over?

Yes that was nicely position by the local builder's merchant - I had to brace it with wood before cutting the straps as it collapsed as soon as I did.

Still struggling to come to terms with the fact you're prepared to pay £15k for a bike shed, tbh 🙁

You could by lots of bikes for that.

Doorway will be 1800mm, so plenty wide enough. Doorways go on top of two courses of bricks.

So you have a step down into this shed? Or are you putting another floor in?

So.... has he been binned off the job or what??

a time laps video of the shed being built would have been quite cool too

Isn't that what's in the OP?

*eagerly awaiting update. Preferably with photo*

So you have a step down into this shed? Or are you putting another floor in?

There will be a floor inside, cellotex plus cheap laminate - but there will still be a step in / out, but I'm fine with that. As the slab is flush with the external ground, I don't want any pooling water to go under the door.

Footflaps, where does your DPM and DPC run then? DPM on top of the slab and dressed up 2 courses of bricks to DPC, with your floating floor on top? That would explain why he's put the brickwork round the back under the blockwork.

Also you don't seem to have any brick piers started on the left side.

So.... has he been binned off the job or what??

I'll take a rain check at the WE. I'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt right now as the start is always slow with corners, levelling etc. I'm hoping it speeds up a bit today / tomorrow. Plus I'm not going to get someone else to start tomorrow at zero notice and I'm keen to get as much done as soon as possible....

DPC runs on top of the two courses of bricks.

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Had a small garden wall built earlier this year, imperial bricks, 7m long, 1 brick thick (so two rows to you and me). Took two lads a day and a half.

Start of day one:
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Lunchtime day one (please note the correct display of rolly fag in mouth):
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End of day one:
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Lunchtime on day two:
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Done.
£100 per person per day, so £300 in total.

I like what next door have done with their garden.