Onoff

You'd prefer a more traditional, thick round shaped door opener?

Right then 50 little cardboard pots from the Poundshop sat in the seed tray. How do I plant the beans? Half fill with compost,push the bean in then cover?

Because you'd recognise his back door?

Best he starts now! 😂

The dust produced is incredible and just as likely to pi$$ neighbours off when it covers their cars/exacerbates little Johnny's asthma etc. A water fed saw is great but you still have the coloured run off / resultant spoil to deal with. Luckily I have no near neighbours 😉

The ones with the round holes in are not actually engineering bricks. Just the bottom 4 courses are, the ones with the slotted holes: The round hole ones were basically these though a slightly different design with no small holes in like now: https://www.selcobw.com/65mm-tuscan-red-brick The Evo saw / diamond blade cut them like a knife through butter. I do have to cut some slips shortly, so lengthways which will be fun. This to dress around the control boxes. Clamps will very much be the order of the day!

It just keeps getting better! 👍

You want to curry favour with that one...

BDSM?

It's about a gay nightclub owner. How can I even compete? Don't you lot grow palm trees overnight down there? Hopefully planting in pots tomorrow. Pics to follow.

Hmmm...John Brown / Bob Dylan or two fit Pakistani American sisters? Well call me a dirty old man.....

There's a robin nesting in the lhs pillar as aforementioned. Never liked acid house. Quite into Krewella at the moment.

Halved my bricks using an Evolution Rage 3 chop saw with and Evolution 255mm diamond blade:

For the stubborn bits of mortar I might go with neat acid. Just gave another 1:1 dilute wash and rinse off. The fines in the mortar are coming through. I'll let it dry out over the Summer then give a coat of waterproofer. You can see how the washed face is "brighter" on the brick faces. @Marvin reckons it's a gate that says "f*** off!" 😂 Aim achieved then!

It's been a while since Mr Onoff has had afternoon crumpet...

I allowed the widely accepted, mm per year, screed drying time before I tiled. This just to be on the safe side.

Blame Peter!

Certainly makes a difference having somewhere decent to work...

He'll likely be repeating himself in another 5 years!

Brilliant film.

I used the egg crate type but the red Polypipe panels. They grip the 16mm pipe like sh!t to a blanket and didn't particularly lift at all. I did then lay A142 mesh over the whole lot which had a weighting effect of course. 100mm wet concrete over the top. No problems with de-coiling either, even with my homemade rig. Video: The jury's out on whether I'd use these panels again. There is a saving in concrete and it's super quick to lay the pipes. The resultant slab, though I'm sure strong enough, doesn't "ring" like a solid slab. I don't know, maybe having all those hollows in it is a good thing?

Agador Spartacus?

Cheek, you've had captives in that basement for longer!

Rolling forward to 2026...

It's all compressions on the panels I have here.