Any half tidy trowel can back up face work with partial cavity fill and 100mm block, and he should also be able to lay block work with a full face joint to front and no snots on back. If he can not, then show him the hole in the hedge.
It is a complete load of rubbish all this about laying two course of block, fit fill, then go and lay 6 face, He is a bricklayer, not a grass hopper.
True on flanks, if it is not a windy day and on first lift we may crack 9 course of block work up first, partial fill then lift face, but on back and front where your frames are, we lift face first then jump in and back up. Partial fill is a pain and in our opinion is worth a another £2.00 metre on labour rate.
Your BCO is a tw*t and clearly does not know his job.. How any one manages to get DPC at wrong level, beggers belief, how ever inspection of DPC is a statutory inspection, and to the letter of the law, you should not cover the DPC until inspected, although most reasonable BCOs do not stick to this, as long as they can see the laps they are happy. This is as much BCO fault as the idiot who did it.
He was completely wrong telling you to put partial fill against face work. Did you record it in diary?
It is not BCO responsibility to tell you how to carry out a certain item. It is his responsibility to ensure that the finished item complies with building regs.
Ask him a question. If you are building up tight to another building or a boundary whereby you are denied access and you have to work overhand and crack face work up first, then you have to do partial fill and block work last. What will be his answer be to that?
Do exactly as Woody has told you, with just one further thing. Buy a long handled spatula, bend the end up and if bricklayer does get any snots or droppings on insulation already placed, run spatula along top edge to clean of and tell yer little Hitler what you have done.
When you have a BCO like this record in the diary everything said and names of any one who overheard conversation.
Just in case you go full fill will answer your other question as well.
oldun
It is a complete load of rubbish all this about laying two course of block, fit fill, then go and lay 6 face, He is a bricklayer, not a grass hopper.
True on flanks, if it is not a windy day and on first lift we may crack 9 course of block work up first, partial fill then lift face, but on back and front where your frames are, we lift face first then jump in and back up. Partial fill is a pain and in our opinion is worth a another £2.00 metre on labour rate.
Your BCO is a tw*t and clearly does not know his job.. How any one manages to get DPC at wrong level, beggers belief, how ever inspection of DPC is a statutory inspection, and to the letter of the law, you should not cover the DPC until inspected, although most reasonable BCOs do not stick to this, as long as they can see the laps they are happy. This is as much BCO fault as the idiot who did it.
He was completely wrong telling you to put partial fill against face work. Did you record it in diary?
It is not BCO responsibility to tell you how to carry out a certain item. It is his responsibility to ensure that the finished item complies with building regs.
Ask him a question. If you are building up tight to another building or a boundary whereby you are denied access and you have to work overhand and crack face work up first, then you have to do partial fill and block work last. What will be his answer be to that?
Do exactly as Woody has told you, with just one further thing. Buy a long handled spatula, bend the end up and if bricklayer does get any snots or droppings on insulation already placed, run spatula along top edge to clean of and tell yer little Hitler what you have done.
When you have a BCO like this record in the diary everything said and names of any one who overheard conversation.
Just in case you go full fill will answer your other question as well.
oldun
