Rate my Brickie….

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:

Lunchtime day one (please note the correct display of rolly fag in mouth):

End of day one:

Lunchtime on day two:

Done.
£100 per person per day, so £300 in total.

I like what next door have done with their garden.

Comment of the Day goes to nealglover!

😀 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.

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

May be of use.

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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