Recent content by dunnbrick

to be honest my opinion would be for the time its taken you to do it or to fill or to pva and re skin would have prob just got a plasterer in to do it... would have been finished now dried and painted, but only my opinion!

400 blocks a day, 15 pound a metre... ill come and do it! haha, think 400 is a bit much unless a very long run with no corners, scaffolding or loading up... even with a carrier on your own itd be hard work!

haha! not getting into a debate over comments, everyone works different and have the own views!!! as for the silo mix, so your telloing me theres no water gauge on the silo? the amounts of times the forklift drivers have brought a perfect tub of mortar all day long and it only need another to...

cheers pal, yeah helped loads... will keep posted on here if any different.

do you have a rough idea how much it would cost? not moved into the house yet hopefully in the next couple of weeks, do you think its worth mentioning it now or wait till i move in?

yeah you can maybe break the step out if you really want. another good way is when you dig and concrete the foundations in the concrete put some small lenghts of reinforcing bar sticking out and build the pillars round the bars and when filled in the middle itll strenghten it all...

looks like the frames are set quite far back into the brickwork tho.

thanks pal, yeah think ill chase them up when i get my drawings done for the extension... what do you think youll have to do if they do not longer exsist?

yeah def think its the lead flashing, done a few cavity tray jobs and always seems to solve the problem, just have to be careful when removing the brick not to break them, so not have odd bricks in the back of your house. or could just need a few weep vents putting in to divert the water from...

hi all, im new here but loving the site, just in the process of moving house and planning to put a double extension on the side of the property, the house has a very big garden because it has been extended onto the wasteland at the side which in the deeds belongs to the property, only think is...

you can always mix the pva with water and add a bit of sand to it, just gives it that bit extra to bond to! you can buy special stuff but its about 50 quid a tub! so sand is alway good, not a plasterer but worked with a few.

yeah filled on site, your right what your saying mikric, prices are really bad at the moment, think the subbys are taking a good cut tho! thats why work is rushed so much on site, stopped working on site last august and started up on our own me and another bricklayer and never looked back since...

noseall... these m3 prices are they job lot complete?? what do they normally include, im a bricklayer who works for myself and only normally take on the brickwork on jobs... but getting a lot of offfers for full extensions! is it worth the hastle?

haha! yeah think i might be going to space too! no excuse for work like that! if your using the silo the water can be turned down to make the mortar stiffer and the bricks just need stacking to dry out! like i said ive worked on a lot of sites and always done a good job with whatever i was...