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I never met my dad full stop, however after a bit of research I found out that his dad was a layer of bricks as am I to trade. However, sometimes you have to drop a couple of rungs of the ladder and do other trades ;-)

I find the best way for a chimney not to leak is,well dont have one.. however that is not always possible!! What I do ask is ,upstand or flat against chimney ( leadwork I mean)..??

I was a farmer before I was in the building game.. John Deere was to long though..

Not so good..

A lot of people think that if a tradesman fires (k-rend) into a sentence' well, they must know what they are talking about'. Nothing could be further from the truth! Fatarm hit nail on head, fresh canvas..

Ma transits having surgery so no pics of it but will this do? Bonus prize if anyone guesses what it is? (Before it became a stock car)..

Yeah, lookin like its time humans were wiped out. Wouldn't mind a few weeks (notice) got a few threads to tie off!!

It's ok Danny, it's out in the stix so nobody will be any the wiser!!!!! F*****g idiots only just got electricity etc, etc.. On a serious note, that job was ok'd. By , wait for it, yes BCA INSULATION's very own ( whatever he calls his job). Anyway, these c u n t s are creaming all this money...

Oh, and once it's roughcasted, they come back a few weeks later and fit the cills. . Company is called bca insulation..

Cuts means c u n t 's !

It's the same cuts that are doing this area, jobs look good from a distance but up close, naa! ! The insulation looks like it already has Base coat on with mesh attached, then once fixed they just mud joints, then fit beads, render and roughcast..

That's correct , but it's been okayed! ! If my camera had not died then you would be really shocked! The best bit, are you ready ? Are you sitting down? When they fixed the insulation on the fixings are to long, they are through the guys walls inside, even through his kitchen cupboards, on a...

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Nice job...

Got some nice pics to show, unfortunately, camera on phone died before I could get best ones, I'm sure you'll get the idea....am gonna get into this, 14000 pounds these ***** got for this, I would say 5 days work max and no more than 4 grand materials..

Nice, cheers Danny. Will take pics even if I make an arse of it!!

The only trouble with using smaller chips to make it seem flatter is you are more likely to see casting marks and from a distance it will look nasty, unless the guy doin it is on top of his game. Why not get someone to do a tyrolean but heavier?

Danny, was that onto new plasterboard?? Got a bag of this to try, off tomorrow so goin for it. Trouble is, it's onto an emulsioned wall so was gonna just do my usual , pva it tonight then before I start another coat of pva. Will that suffice d ya think? Maybe score wall for a bit of key first...

Joiners are c u n t s end of! I get on with most I work with but I Feckin hate them, the time I have not, to tell you why!!!

Are you on the k cider too? Good **** aye..:-)

Steady now, I've never scratched a wall like that!! I'm a brickie. Although sometimes I up my game and do a bit of plastering... :-

Hats off to you guys that plaster every day, yous must be on drugs or raving alcoholics!! Just done 3 (only three) days plastering over artex, usually my mate over boards it so no problem, but this job was an afterthought so no choice. Stipple on the ceiling and swirls on the walls. Looked at...

Slating (spanish) been doing it for last couple of weeks, mindnumbing stuff, slates are fecking awful too. West highland slate i dont mind though..2 more days then back to roughcasting..

Hi ryan, your attitude is 100% spot-on,think i spoke with you a few years ago, anyhow are these nela trowels pretty good, wouldnt mind one, where do i get them? Recently, i have started a new construction company up with a couple of fellow tradesmen, usually get our beads from sas etc, however...

Gonna be a long day..

Just as bad, went out at nights over a few weeks, against my religion (and the wife thought i was havin an affair). Anyway, finished the job, person text me next day delighted with job and how much do i owe, said how much, then got reply, yeah no problem can i give you £xxxx and ill give you...

Only joking, just trying to build up my posts..:-)

He's obviously found out your as rough as feck..

Cheers for reply dan, originally it was a chip off and re-roughcast, then they told me they have cotton wool in cavity so said i would break through and suck that out then re-roughcast. Then i was asked about these new systems with insulation then render so said i would give them a ballpark...

Could anyone give me an indication on cost per square metre of a system (materials) not application. Probably a roughcast finish. got a few people asking me about this now, never done it myself but im sure its pretty straight forward, however not my cup of tea anyways.. Would you need to...

Last time I take a radiator off to plaster a wall!!:-)

I find its great for wet dashing onto but for dry dash it skins up pretty quickly so your going like a mad man..

Got a job to do next week, it's a re-roughcast on a new build. The story is, it was a hpx base coat, then a dash receiver with a wet dash roughcast. However, the feckwits that done it after beading and hpx then proceeded to render the rest of building with dash receiver. Leave it for a week...

Owls, never got a chance to get pictures, however i passed job this morning and it was still the same as it has been for weeks. Then I passed it tonight and it's all dry dashed! Looks like they still have cills to put on?? Is that possible ( well, obviously it is cos it's done) but properly?

It's a timber frame, got to have them. Usually 6 metres apart and no more than 3 metres from a corner. Usually try and hide them behind down pipes but not always possible..

Like this Rigsby?

I'll try and get some tomorow..

Your the man, yes damaged was caused from leaking chimney. They took it down years ago and tiled over, but now have a stove fitted and I just patched up where it was leaking..

I patched a wee external corner in a bedroom this evening with multi, (filled in with bonding the other day). When I went to trowel it up, the smell of ammonia was wild. What caused that?

Don't know too much about this side of the game but it interests me, anyway, there's a job local to me that was started weeks ago, they stuck the insulation on ( can't see any fixings on boards) then they have just slapped a base coat on all joints( looks a mess in my opinion) then left it for...

Helped build Dennis wise's house near uxbridge, dave beasant stayed next door and he boiled the kettle for me one day..

Not that one but the first one..

Zombie, liked your post because you obviously care about your work. Find myself going home thinking, should have done this, did I do that, F*****g hate havin a conshens :-)..good stuff!!

Doused with black and red pepper so moisture never came in to it!..

Im a lazy c**t tonight. I put bread in toaster then chucked cheese on and slapped it in microwave fore 30 secs..

When you make toasted cheese, do you toast both sides then fire cheese on , or toast one side then fire cheese on untoasted side?life is tuff..

Just done a ceiling over artex, pva’d it then slapped it on, didn't fuckabout to much with it, couple of bits need attention but otherwise job is nice, didn't want to trowel anymore in case it started peeling..

Great stuff rigsby, however you should batch enough up first to do area your casting,not every bag has same in it ( I find) better wetter than drier or it goes on like grapes..sore on the skin though bud..

Havnae priced it yet flynny, waitin till she gets all the wood chip off, I'll scrape the art ex ceiling though. It's a good days shift, dormer in middle of room. It will be 250 +mats at least! some unknowns so hey ho..

Fotunately she's told me to come and have a look first, was hoping to just overboard it job done but there's old cornice she likes..