[Closed] Rate my Brickie....

Slow day on a Friday Jamie? 🙂

top marks Jamie. Have a dog.

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What helmet for condemned piers?

lol funny stuff 🙂

"Rate my Bike Mechanic" superb.

Looking forward to today's installment.

OP don't rely on building control getting it right. They are probably the same shower that allowed my sisters neighbour to cause major structural damage to her house (and their own). My sister is currently living in a house that could fall down in a sudden cold snap or very heavy rain.
I repeat Cambs building control are a shower.

Edit Nice bondage Stoner!

A Scottish bond. Or Sean Connery for short...

I was looking for a flemish one 🙂

I was looking for a flemish one

Strangely, that was in the first draft.

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This is one of the most entertaining threads for a long time.

No nothing about building and I hope it works out for Footflaps.

Is the engineer here yet? It's nearly 9

I've cancelled the Brickie and will take it all down at the WE regardless. Engineer will be here shortly...

So what's the best way to clean mortar off bricks? I'll probably bin all the blocks as they're relatively cheap.

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DrP

(got the second one for my lad for christmas!!)

I've cancelled the Brickie and will take it all down at the WE

How did he take it? I hope you didn't pay him? Have you linked him to this thread?

I reckon you'll have that lot, down, cleaned, and in neat piles in half the time it's taken him to put them up 🙂
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Well as you're starting again, is it worth having a re-think about using the handmade imperials below DPC level when a metric engineering brick might make it all a bit easier/better?

Scutching hammer

Best of luck Op I'm sure it'll turn out well in the end.

^ good idea.

Class Bs dont cost much at all.

The mortar on the blocks won't be fully set so it should knock off quite easily with a trowel, you could probably get away with knocking bits of it down to get the piers bonded in again.

If I were you I'd be building cavity, you won't loose that much internally and it will also give good support to the facing brick facade. Give me a shout if you want me to sketch up a detail for you. Cavity wall will still be fine to support your steelwork

So The STW crowd-sourced spec list goes something like:
1) DPM
2) Engineering bricks to DPC
3) 110mm cavity wall
4) 100mm mineral wool insulation batts
5) Wine cellar
6) TV aerial

Wine cellar!!! Brilliant but you would have some trouble digging one through that reinforcement.

A wine loft would be an idea

There's quite enough wining on here already 😆

IGMC

A wine loft would be an idea

Cooled by stoners solar powered thang.

Brilliant but you would have some trouble digging one through that reinforcement.

Good job it's coming down or imagine the embarrassment your family would suffer when the emergnecy services dug your body out of the rubble to find you were part way through building an Orange 5 at the time of your demise.

I'll look up deal extreme for thermal lances now, must have them cheap.

Best thread for ages this....

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I like this thread.

(whilst still hoping that footflaps ends up with the bike shed of his dreams).

I wonder what else you can now make, add to, with the old blocks and bricks?

BBQ?

Outside wash station?

Surprisingly the Engineer was an awful lot less bothered by the whole thing than STW. He said the block work was neat and he'd seen a lot worse. He was happy with the 100mm overlap, all within spec. He's specified the middle load bearing pillar gets taken down four courses and re-built fully bonded, the rest can stay as is and not be completed fully bonded as the load will have spread out by the time it gets that low, so the weaker bonding won't be an issue at that height. I repeatedly said I'm happy to start again and he said, don't - just correct the middle pier and carry on. I'll talk to my BC inspector this afternoon to get his approval for the remedial action and then take it from there.

did he have a view on the DPM/DPC?

When my parents had their extension built, my dad had a small secret box room buit in to the cavity created by the recessed fire place. It was accessed by removing logs from the recessed log store and climbing up and in . Was shelved full height, about 1.5m deep and about 5m long. As a young boy (aged about 25) I thought it was epic and I had visions of him storing weapons, valuable wine, gold bars and porn in there, or creating a panic room.

As it was, I don't think he could ever be arsed to remove the logs so didn't really use it for anything other than a small amout of cash he got from doing some business off the books.

But it was there......

Edit: Double post

I'd agree that the block work is tidy, no doubting that and the 100 lap is acceptable, just not good practice.

It would need to be tidy given the time he is taking over it!!

Do as he says with the middle pier and also make sure you bond in the remainder of the other piers to make sure they don't topple over internally through time.

Do as he says with the middle pier and also make sure you bond in the remainder of the other piers to make sure they don't topple over internally through time.

All the other piers will be fully bonded and I've ordered some Ancon flat plate SS ties which will be used everywhere from now on, to beef up the bonding. We're having a breather till the the plates arrive which will hopefully be Today or Monday.

did he have a view on the DPM/DPC?

I'm not at all concerned about this, there are plenty of solutions, all of which I can retro-fit eg lay another DPC and screed, paint floor + inside of two courses with sealant / rubber paint stuff etc. It's an easily solvable problem. Plus we're the driest part of the UK (it rains more in North Africa than in Cambridge). My kitchen floor is laid on 6" of Victorian rubble on the earth, with no DPC and is dry as a bone.

I guess rainwater harvesting isn't an option on the stw collective specification then?

Just realized nobody has actually rated the builders work yet

10/10 Turning Up

8/10 Tidyness

0/10 Fag rolling

10/10 Bucket toolbox

8/10 Builders cap

2/10 Quality of work

4/10 Cost

0/10 Recommendation

Have I forgot any? 😉

Just realized nobody has actually rated the builders work yet

Are you looking at the right brickie?

Have I forgot any?

Amount of arse crack showing?

Reading the Sun?

Offering opinions on current affairs?

I guess rainwater harvesting isn't an option on the stw collective specification then?

I'm going to channel all the little rain we get to Butts and then the excess to a soak away I've not yet dug.

But to put it in context I cycle to/from work everyday and flogged my GTX trousers on Ebay as I'd not worn them in about 5 years!

Amount of sugars in tea?

0/10 Fag rolling

Yep, he smokes cigarettes not rollies...

Amount of sugars in tea?

A lot..

is he sacked then and your looking for a new chap?