ETC Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 6 hours ago, pocster said: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder She’s an ugly dog . Initially I just foamed the gaps . But then a precise breeze decided to blow the foam down the lane - hence the cardboard … Foam? Madness….. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 38 minutes ago, ETC said: Foam? Madness….. I’ll cut it back tomorrow. It’s just to fill the gaps at the edges . Not madness ; brilliance ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 16 hours ago, pocster said: Squirted in @pocster's back ally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 It’s going from Bodge to worse 🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 Just now, markc said: It’s going from Bodge to worse 🤪 You have no faith ! Watch the ugly duckling turn into a beautiful swan … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) 6 minutes ago, pocster said: You have no faith ! Watch the ugly duckling turn into a beautiful swan … Morning Sir, that’s a good attitude to life Edited April 5, 2022 by markc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adsibob Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 01/04/2022 at 21:50, Faz said: Don't want to be cruel but you might be wanting to have another go at that wall to level it up I think the wall looks fine @pocster, keep going! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 10 hours ago, Adsibob said: I think the wall looks fine @pocster, keep going! You will ascend into heaven for such joyous believe . Or you’ll be laughed out of town if it fails . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 Goodnight gentlemen Good morning ladies … Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Wot I said 👍 Worst you'll have to do is pick foam out of the sides and do a little repointing. Leave the top rough as a key for the final mortar. I might even prime with SBR as you go whenyou lay them for added bite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 Just now, Onoff said: Wot I said 👍 Worst you'll have to do is pick foam out of the sides and do a little repointing. Leave the top rough as a key for the final mortar. I might even prime with SBR as you go whenyou lay them for added bite. I’ll leave it until Monday to fully cure . Take off the shuttering . Pick off foam . Knick any high bits out . Stick a level on it - won’t be perfect , but will easily do . @Onoff had faith ! 🤣😁👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 5 minutes ago, pocster said: I’ll leave it until Monday to fully cure . Take off the shuttering . Pick off foam . Knick any high bits out . Stick a level on it - won’t be perfect , but will easily do . @Onoff had faith ! 🤣😁👍 Just chuck the end ones in first then infill between against a string line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 42 minutes ago, Onoff said: Wot I said 👍 Worst you'll have to do is pick foam out of the sides and do a little repointing. Leave the top rough as a key for the final mortar. I might even prime with SBR as you go whenyou lay them for added bite. Sbr on coping underside ? . All on a thin bed of mortar . or add sbr to the mortar mix ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) It pissed down once I finished . It’s run . Hope it brushes off the stone work !! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Edited April 6, 2022 by pocster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 4 hours ago, pocster said: Sbr on coping underside ? . All on a thin bed of mortar . or add sbr to the mortar mix ? Feel free to carry on ignoring me 😁 But your best results will come from applying a SBR cement slurry to both surfaces before you bed them on. You would only have needed to apply it to the copings if you'd bedded them directly on top of the levelling fill. That's now a 'day joint'. Just get a rectangular icecream container and cover the bottom in SBR. Slowly add cement and stir in to make a porridge. If too thick/thin add more SBR/cement. You want to be able to apply with a stiff paintbrush - like one of those boxy 4" fence paint brushes. You can also add SBR to the bedding mix using the mixing instructions on the container. This will frostproof things by making the mortar less water permeable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 3 minutes ago, Radian said: Feel free to carry on ignoring me 😁 But your best results will come from applying a SBR cement slurry to both surfaces before you bed them on. You would only have needed to apply it to the copings if you'd bedded them directly on top of the levelling fill. That's now a 'day joint'. Just get a rectangular icecream container and cover the bottom in SBR. Slowly add cement and stir in to make a porridge. If too thick/thin add more SBR/cement. You want to be able to apply with a stiff paintbrush - like one of those boxy 4" fence paint brushes. You can also add SBR to the bedding mix using the mixing instructions on the container. This will frostproof things by making the mortar less water permeable. Didn’t ignore you - just forgot 😁 I only ignore @epsilonGreedy ; oh look ; he’s disappeared; strange that …. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 This might help: SBR_Bonding_Agent_2016.pdf I said do it as you go as SBR dries really quick if a thin layer. The slurry should stay "wet". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radian Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 1 hour ago, pocster said: Didn’t ignore you - just forgot T'was just my silly way of excusing repeating what I suggested earlier 🤪 Like @Onoff says SBR can make stuff go off a bit quick but as a slurry it stays workable for quite a while. Bedding mortar may go a bit quicker but at this time of year it shouldn't be an issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 2 hours ago, pocster said: I only ignore @epsilonGreedy ; oh look ; he’s disappeared; strange that And look how calm the place has been. He has liked a couple of my posts since the upgrade, I did not feel I needed to write a thank you note. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 10 hours ago, SteamyTea said: And look how calm the place has been. He has liked a couple of my posts since the upgrade, I did not feel I needed to write a thank you note. Bit like a busy road in the week . Lots of traffic and noise . Now the forum feels like the same road but on a Sunday . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 minute ago, pocster said: Now the forum feels like the same road but on a Sunday Ah, Sundays, when I am driving up to Bucks, via Devon, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire. Don't think Avon exists now, but I would go though there as well. I am slowly learning all the names of the Rivers I cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 There ! Certainly not level ( maybe 10mm deviation ) but a lot better . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 50 minutes ago, pocster said: There ! Certainly not level ( maybe 10mm deviation ) but a lot better . Is that your back alley on the right? Looks quite tight for getting anything up there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 9, 2022 Author Share Posted April 9, 2022 Just now, Onoff said: Is that your back alley on the right? Looks quite tight for getting anything up there. You dirty (expletive deleted)er 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocster Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 (edited) My smugness ended today . I got up properly to look at my cast concrete with a spirit level …. It wibbles and wobbles around . It’s not level . So I embedded frame packers in cement at the low levels so that my spirit level shows level between them .Now when I bed the copings ( I think these biggies are maybe 60kg each ) they will sink . So I will put packers on the wall and cement around them to the level . Assumption is coping will only drop so far until it hits packers and cement. Someone say this is a good idea please 😁👍 Edited April 10, 2022 by pocster F up 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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