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Hi, thermo, good man, all the best.

Thanks Nose, all the best to you and yours.

Hi, all, I haven't been around much of late, due to various family and work things, but I just thought I'd like to wish everyone a very merry chrizzy and all that sort of thing. Here is a building site story for you all to read (If you wish)...

Hi, Milo, I don't quite understand the pics, but, can you lift the I beam and let the joist ends into the web of the steel? this would give sufficient load support, and remove the appearance of the steel as it would be in the ceiling, therefore giving enough headroom on the stairs. How has it...

Hi, gangman, I used to work for Holloway White Allum, in Kensington. (Mick Gannon was the subby's name) Ever done anything with them? Alan D.

OK, Lee, take care. don't forget, goggles, Mask, gloves. and safe working practice, (get the Mrs to do it instead) :wink:

Cellar extensions are popular in Chelsea and Kensington, (where I used to work) and are darned expensive due to the excavations and sectional underpinning etc. What you are proposing is not so dramatic as this, but you should commision a surveyors report to see what procedures you should employ...

thanks Bro. Should read, 10m2 A pro would do 35m2 I can do 15m2

Hi, xerxes, Yes, when starting to point an area, first take a portion of the prepared mortar on a bricklaying trowel of normal size, 10" - 12" blade Then using the smaller pointing trowel take a portion onto it and force it into the perpendicular joint. All this assumes you have previously...

Ok, xerxes, so you are going to re point up to the dentil course and have it rendered above. There doesn't seem much difficulty about that. although the pictures are very small, the brickwork below the plinth should be ok after you've repointed. I still think a pointing trowel and a...

bucket handle.

Hi, Peter. You do have a problem. use a strong mortar mix, 5-1 and force the slightly dry mix right in to the joints until you can get no more in. Use a pointing trowel and a plasterers hawk to load the compo. hold the hawk at the level of the bottom of the joint to be filled and push small...

Ok greggers, I retract. That sounds a lot like reality to me :lol:

No you're not, woody, only brickies can be 'chosen'. I could ask the great stone wallayer in the sky if he'll let you in for good behavior if you like?

Yes my friend, The chosen one recieved his purse. The client recieved a curse.

Just to put my twopennorth in, If I was paying for a job, and wanted to put a level on the work, I would, and if the bricky didn't like it, I would have him off site so fast he wouldn't get chance to be lairy. I built a detached garage for a client once, (well many times obviously, but...

Give it up woody, stick to wood butchering and leave the brickwork to the chosen ones.

Hi, Woody, The half round jointing tool is called a bucket handle in the trade, from the old days when the old railway fire buckets had wide handles just ideal for the job. these old buckets could be recovered from tips on farms and the like, as it was the bottoms which used to wear out. The...

Greggers, you are talking ballcocks, stoppit now. There are a number of different finishes to repointed brick work, the finish will depend on the existing. what is important is to establish if in fact the brickwork needs repointing at all. If it does, the main problem is to get someone to...

Hi, Patsy, my new best friend, get a sparky in. If you pay them you don't have to sleep with them, (usually) ;-) BTW, I'm a bricky, worst luck. ;-(