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    how many 9 inch blocks to a sq. metre?

    Hi shytalks< Hi from chessspy, are you keeping the faith?
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    Hi Nose, The building codes here in NC are very different to the UK. Bricks are normally used as a facing like on timber framed buildings which most of the smaller houses round here are. The older rat trap bond houses dating from the 1930s mostly are I suppose 9" construction without timber...
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    Hey Nose and all. It is very heartening to know you guys are all still around and in fine fettle by all accounts. No, Shytalks is NOT here with me :-) but most of my doings are online in my website, (chessspy.com) including my work on my house here. cost me about $80k which is about 50K gbp...
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    Please ignore the phone number above. I cannot seem to get to change it. I am at...

    Please ignore the phone number above. I cannot seem to get to change it. I am at [email protected]
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    hi Guys, well It;s me again after a mere 3 years. now living and working in North Carolins USA I just popped on to say there are quite a few houses here built in rat trap bond. I will post pics if anyone is interested. My new email is [email protected]. BTW
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    OK, Shy, Regarding your question, I think the question is, What are you doing if you go out with a sharp knife and cut off men's penises? Ans. Cock robbing
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    Hi, Shy, Yes, sorry for being away so long, I've been very busy, apparantly the super rich, (who are my clients) are still spending like it is going out of fashon. It's nice to be back, and I'll keep you updated as to what happens here I'm confidently expecting the whole b1oody thing to...
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    How not to install a steel lintol over a wide opening.

    I first spotted this gang of cowboys about a year ago when they had cut out a course of bricks in this gable wall, cut down the sides and boogered off and left it unsupported for a few months. Now they have installed the lintol, and I cant count the number of building regs they have ignored...
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  11. Bodgit Cashup and scarper

    Bodgit Cashup and scarper

    How not to install a steel lintol over a very wide opening.
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    chessspys travails in the workplace.

    Hi, bro. Nose. I see you are keeping the faith. the trowel does as you quite rightly say, seek, and find enlightenment in the sacred wall. did you enjoy the stories? they are all true BTW.
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    chessspys travails in the workplace.

    Good eve brother Nose, how goes the struggle? All is well with me, this recession has had a strange effect on my overseas clients, they are sending me more work than I can handle. And there is a dedicated chess and games sale in london (Bonhams knightsbridge) at the end of the month. So as...
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    chessspys travails in the workplace.

    Little Fat Andy and the Tin Can Telephone This on site wind up happened in Chelsea, on the same site as the concrete bicycle incident but a few months earlier. Before the 'lid' was put on the excavations for the full size Olympic swimming pool under the front garden of the house. (I promise...
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    Improving U value of house walls and Part L

    Hi, All, (and my old friend nose(all)) I've been retired from the biz for a few years now, and I don't want to get involved in the building regs/recognition of this discussion, but it seems to me that a few years ago there was a 'thinsulate' sheet that came out that looked like quilted bacofoil...
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