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Hi shytalks< Hi from chessspy, are you keeping the faith?

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...

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...

Please ignore the phone number above. I cannot seem to get to change it. I am at [email protected]

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

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

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...

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...

How not to install a steel lintol over a very wide opening.

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.

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...

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...

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...

Little Fat Andy and the Front Door Key. Working on building sites in London and various places around in the south east of England was sometimes hard, sometimes cold, (in winter) and often rather boring. No wonder we the subcontract brickies and other trades occasionally set 'wind-ups' for...

Little Fat Andy and the concrete bicycle. Little Fat Andy was the site agent on several of the sites in London upon which I had the 'pleasure' to work. An agents job on site is to liaise between the management proper, client and architects etc. Andy also saw his role as including making life as...

Legless Paddy at R. Sewells the Builder. Paddy, or John, to give him his real name was a labourer I met whilst working a few weeks for a Hull building firm called R. Sewells. (I promise you this story is true, each and every word, I would not lie, you can look them up in the Hull phone book...

Hi, wibble, I'm a bit out of date with these things, having retired from the trade about 10 years ago, but I used to leave the mesh about 10mm back from the finished surfaces. spread bonding all over the exposed mesh, leave a day to dry (making sure the 'rough' is a few mm back from the final...

cheers Hotrod, same to you, I'm off to Paris in 't' morning early. see you all again in 't' new year. XXX Alan (chessspy)