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😀 heh, yeah it was a bit of a building site for a few weeks but it looks lovely now they've had a chance to put some borders and a lawn in. 🙂
I'm sorry footflaps but your damp proofing isn't going to work, unless there's an apron laid inwards and lapped onto poly on the slab then another concrete/screed pour on top of that.
Engineers detail is poor at best!
I'm sorry footflaps but your damp proofing isn't going to work
I reckon the best thing to do is dig it up and have another go.
You'll be fine if you lay a poly DPM across the slab and dress it up to the DPC.
Then put your floating floor on top of that (anyway why are you insulating the floor - the walls arent insulated. I'd go underlay board on the DPM, chipboard then laminate, or scrap the laminate and use ply & floor paint)
Yeah it'll be fine. 🙄
I'm going to seal the floor and up to the DPC with something waterproof to make a bath tub thing. Insulation isn't structural, hence not on the structural drawings.
Pic of todays progress please, he must have gone home by now.
Pic of todays progress please, he must have gone home by now.
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There you go. 😉
Pic of todays progress please, he must have gone home by now.
He may have done, but I haven't...
You home yet?
Laminate you say?
I'm not proud if you're paying day rate. 🙂
So if I read this right any water that gets in will run under your floating floor / Laminate and wont be able to go anywhere cos it will be on a dpm and under the laminate .
Meant to say, snagging will also be at hourly rate.
I bet he wishes he hadn't bothered now 🙂
I'm 41... Is it too late to train to be a brickie?
Best thread of the week btw 😆
In my head I see there being less bricks laid now 🙂
He's not a brickie. All the brickies I worked with would have built the corners up first so they could run a line to keep each course of bricks or blocks level.
Thread of the year this is going to be, lets hope he doessnt retire before the shed gets built.
My brothers a brickie but not a cyclist, sent him a link to this thread. He said he would have given him a one inch punch on the second day and sparked him out. Uber taking the p155 in his eyes, loves the thread though.
Single garage on the side of a house, all in £11-12 K 😉
8.30-4 for 150 quid is 20 quid per hour if he worked without a break (I'm guessing that he didn't!) Mental!
Maybe the OP could start selling tickets to watch this human dynamo in action.
...might help recoup some of the costs.
I'd be brutely honest with him and sack him off, he's taking the pee and giving us bricklayers a bad name, with all the other so called builders from so many other countries competing for jobs, you'd be able to get someone in to do it in real time.
Plenty of retired brickies grateful of a bit of cash would get that up in a few days and have the roof on a couple of days later all tiled and in the dry.
He's for the cull..
Set up a hidden camera triggered by movement, connect it to the internet, call it brickie watch?
It can't be going well, otherwise he would have posted by now
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[quote=markrh said]Set up a hidden camera triggered by movement, connect it to the internet, call it brickie watch?
It wouldn't trigger 😉
Think i'd better stay out of this thread!
Rusty, Bricklayer, Lecturer in Brickwork, NVQ Assessor.
......might get a giggle and a lesson or two out of it though ; )
Is Matt Allwright hiding in your garden somewhere?
OK, today's progress.
I counted the blocks and bricks and he's 1/4 of the way through by numbers. I'm guess two weeks for the whole job.
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So there are a few brick layers on this thread, what is the professional consensus? Like someone above says, I have always seen brickwork built up at the corners first to get a line across. I suspect this guy doesn't really know what he is doing & that's why he is taking so long, I'd be the same. No one's going to pay me top rate for my skills as a bricky though.
Edit: and seconds before I press post a corner appears. Better progress by the looks
....alternatively he could have bonded the blockwork properly 😯
Also, the general idea is that the piers hold the wall up, not the other way around. Oh dear.
Sod it, i said i was going to stay out of this one.
....alternatively he could have bonded the blockwork properly
I'm nae brickie and i noticed that
Serious question.
Where are you and do you want it doing properly?
The Engineer is on site tomorrow to look through a few things inc some of the pier bondings and RSJ footings etc. He calls the shots, not STW!
Also, the general idea is that the piers hold the wall up, not the other way around
Not sure it will work either way.
...oh and OP is in Cambridge.
Are those vertically stacked blocks supposed to be doing something, or is that what you are talking about in the above couple of posts? I'm not a brickie (at all) but I think I can see a shite job when I look at it!
OK for the non brickies what up with the piers and the bonding.
To me a non brickie bonding looks ok, there's an overlap BUT maybe should be half a block not the quarter that he has?
Nice Quarter bond too.
Hopefully the passing trains don't cause too much vibration...
Minimum overlap when bonding blockwork is 100mm which he just has. On a run like this though there is no need/excuse for anything other than half bond.
Presumably the piers are 'tied in' by hanging a few wallties out. This is structurally incorrect as he should have tied them in by bonding alternate courses by laying two blocks flat spanning the full 215mm of wall and pier.
Having seen a 'pier' fall over and land on a car when the garage door was shut (seriously, and NO i didn't build it!) i would be pretty concerned about this.
OK for the non brickies what up with the piers and the bonding.
You can't have a long span of single brick / block wall, it will bow / be too weak. So you have piers every 2m to provide rigidity - all covered by Building Regs.
The middle pier will have an RSJ on it as the roof is suspended on steel work (no A frames), so the bonding on those piers is critical (special fixings). The Structural Engineer is here at 9am to review progress and check out the piers.
Those piers aren't bonded at all. I'll have a sniff around for my memory stick for my blockwork lesson powerpoint and see if i can dig up an image or two.
Not my image, but like this
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