Recent content by cjgarlick

Cheers Breezer - good bit of lateral thinking (pardon the pun...). Can't believe I didn't think of that !! Did as you suggest and all is fine - job now done, thanks for your help.

Morning List - I recently pulled out the hedge along the front of my property, bordering the pavement, to replace it with a fence. Was digging down last week for some fence post holes, and found (barely below the surface) what I initially took to be the footings of an old wall (it's an...

Hello Coggy - Sorry for the delay getting back to you - have been flat on my back with a cold :cry: Was going to send you an email re. this but since you've raised it here, may as well reply. Your mods look great. I can see what you've done with your title and Metadata tags; just...

I agree, in some ways, with 'Contractor'. Any profession which attracts decent wages, also attracts its fair share of charlatans. For example, I'm not in the building game - I'm in computing. I come from the 'old school' where there was no such thing as 'Windows' and the Internet had...

From my humble point of view, I'd say it's normal for people who take a pride in their work and skills to react when 'challenged', albeit in a well-meaning and relevant way. 'Pride in the work'.... 'time-served'.... 'professional'... for me, all these things go together, and they do not...

Coggy, happy to help if you wish. I'm not familiar with authoring in Netscape though..... but that doesn't really matter. In essence, the two suggestions I made in my previous post are the answer, just a matter of applying them. Let's take this off the List - I'll drop you an email and...

Hi Coggy - Main thing to say is, thanks for your comments and best of luck getting your funding ! Certainly sounds like you deserve it. :) In case it's of any use to you, I took a look at your website, which looks good, and have a couple of comments. They might be helpful or you...

Handyman / Janitor - Thanks for your comments. Handyman - to answer your question 'where are you going wrong?'..... I think it's just that I am very conscious that I don't really enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm the only one who can change things. It's not really the hours (we all have...

Ah, Ok.... I'm detecting a bit of cynicism here !! Just to be clear, here are the reasons why what you do seems very appealing:- 1) Doing something you enjoy (altho' its clearly different building your own house to crawling around in someone else's filthy attic......?) 2)...

Hi Janitor - I'm interested in your comment from a few days ago:- Speaking from my own experience, I am not a qualified electrician, plumber, joiner, plasterer, decorator etc. so I do not charge as much per hour. But saying that, I am probably slower than a qualified tradesman! I have...

Thanks Drew - I'll check that out. :)

Hello - I'm reluctant to just go ahead, since we're talking about all four exterior walls of a very large house........ lots of work if it washes off in a few months. Could do a trial patch of course but hard to simulate (eg) a year's rain... and ideally I want this to last a lot longer...

That's a good idea. Are you saying you think Unibond alone will suffer ?

Thanks for the reply Ant - Intention is not really to waterproof the wall, more to change its appearance. Sandblasting has taken off the bricks' surface, leaving them textured like weathered sandstone, and has made them a uniform 'new' orange colour. By 'sealing' the brickwork I...

Morning all - Does anyone know if Unibond or PVA is sufficiently 'weatherproof' to be used as a sealant for a newly sandblasted (and therefore de-glazed) exterior brick wall? I would guess at about a 4:1 mix with water.... ? Thanks in advance.