Russell griffiths

the problem I find with my mig is gas bottles if you use it regularly it’s not a problem, but paying a yearly rental on a bottle you only use twice a year can feel like a waste of money.

Vandalism, or wind can bring a block wall down prop them with scaffolding boards if it’s going to get windy.

Toe board sits on top. I think. I bet you don’t need to go to the gym tonight. Heavy isn’t it.

Mig. If you take that course you may stand a chance of becoming a WELDING GOD.

I will have a measure up.

Anybody got a cheap source of gabion baskets, got a bit of a project on this winter, will need a load of them. Cheers russ.

No smaller than 1.5 tonne, any smaller and they just bounce off, my 1.5 tonne kubota impresses me every time I use it.

Tbh I don’t think it’s worth the bother.

Will be talking with them today ?

Yes that is what I’m after, just wondering who has done it.

How fit are you?? for £150 I would be running of to the hire shop for a digger for the day.

I love the house design by the way, I’m just not sure 440mm blocks will follow your 10m radius very well, have you thought of icf.

How are you going to get blocks to sit nicely in that radius. Would you not be better with a shorter block, brick so it follows the radius better, it will be awfully notchy otherwise and a major pain to fit your external insulation. Are you dead dead set on this method.

I wondered if anybody has had a gutters custom folded. Im struggling to find what I want without going to America or Australia and think I might have to have something folded up. Anybody. Or am I the only numpty that worries about this stuff. ??

That really is fairly shit on the shitometer.

https://www.labc.co.uk/news/how-get-it-right-notches-holes-solid-timber-joists

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You may find it will make them slippery.

I have said this so many times I’m getting a bit annoyed go out and play with some blocks spend a day on site chucking it about, cut some up you say you are going to diy it, so that means YOU will pick up every block, get it up two lifts of scaffolding you cannot make a choice on paper or one based on thinking you won’t be able to put a picture on the wall, what a load of shit. Go to three sites and then make your choice i did and and then I chose the most expensive one, not because I wanted to spend lots of money, but because I thought it was going to be easy to use, offered a reasonable insulation level, was strong, went up quick, didn’t need air sealing,etc etc do not choose a product because it is cheap, at the end of the day adding a parge coat to a whole house will cost loads be it in time or materials it’s an extra step you could avoid.

i Would rather they where too long than short, it is not uncommon to see beams poking into the cavity. If you have a dwarf wall in the centre you generally have them overlapping on the middle span, this gives you your cock up factor.

Definitely a trip hazard, but you won’t notice them under all the other piles of shit and trip hazards you have on top of them.

My friends family specialise in this and have done for two generations. You need to be looking at least 10-15 years down the line. Do not turn it into a nature reserve. Definitely no ponds. And 2-3 years from when you feel you are ready for an application chuck some pigs on it, they will destroy everything.

On the scaffold

Mine have done some serious twisting, like a bloody corkscrew some of them.

I hope you are not poking them in after you have laid the blocks ?? if you lay a bed down approx 1.5m to 2m then push the ties down into the bed, you basically don’t pick up a block unless you have picked up the ties its just a 3 stage process bed ties block. Keep a bucket of ties right next to you you will be tripping over it so much you will never forget them.