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martin clark said:
In what, brick, as (in old money) a 9" wall? brick-on-edge as a coping? That works out as about 18-20sq.m of facework, and that works out at about 1200 bricks (1sq.m of one leaf is 60 bricks+mortar*). To get bricks of any quality/interest you want to look at for any length of time, expect to pay £5-600/per thousand; and more than if you buy from a 'trade outlet' that sells to the public; sorry, this is not going to be a cheap exercise.

(not to say there aren't many just taking the pee right now on quotations! Even at that, your lad on the tools and sim cost in bricks - it's around half the quote you received...)

- oh, and make sure the bricks are F2,S2 rated, so they don't fall apart with weathering, frost etc.

*at 10mm beds and perps, the mortar is about 15% of the finished face area.
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we want to reuse the bricks we have, they are locally made.

no idea what the jargon you use means.
 
Three mile dog walk. Two Suduko (completed). Update via four newspapers on Putin’s latest nonsense then a Herbie Mann workout( still at it)
 
Big Tabs said:
ouch.

edit: phoned Daughter to see if she has any Steristrips (paper sutures) - she doesn’t :(
what use is a Nurse in the family if they don’t keep hospital stock at home.
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With a bit of decent sticking plaster and a pair of scissors, you..or maybe someone else who isn't bleeding out all over the floor..can make a fair representation of a 'butterfly' stitch and use that to pull the wound together.
 
Today I went down to the local place for a couple of tyres. The bloke recommended the same Lauffen's wot I have on the front. (a.k.a 'ditchfinders', to some on here..although the only ditchfinders I know are people who can't drive..) He's getting a couple in for tomorrow.

Plans for a sesh on the weights and an evening swim were overwhelmed by me having a genuine attack of 'not being arsed'...

Maybe tomorrow..
 
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Big Tabs said:
we want to reuse the bricks we have, they are locally made.

no idea what the jargon you use means.
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  • facework = finished visible area; what you look at. That means, for a garden wall - both sides.
  • I've assumed the wall is ' a full brick thick', if you see what I mean.
  • about 15% of the visible face of any brick wall is actually .. just the mortar! the colour, but mostly: how well the bricks are laid /the regularity of the work (do the vertical joints between bricks (- the 'perpends / perps/' line up, vertically etc?) - all make a huge difference to the perceived quality of the result. In a way that is 'uncanny valley' to the casual eye - when you glance at it, you can tell something isn't quite right - but might well struggle to describe why not, for a thing you are used to seeing in the background, everyday.
HTH.
 
My finest moment of construction wasn’t the complete re plumbing of our house, or even the complete tiling of its ground floor. No it was the laying of all the pavers from our parking space all the way past our neighbours house, around ours and completed in a rather nice pattern at the back door. I often think of this episode in my life and imagine some f@@king missile taking it out in a moment and having walk away with just a suitcase from all that made your life worthwhile.
 
MUTTY1 said:
No it was the laying of all the pavers from our parking space all the way past our neighbours house, around ours and completed in a rather nice pattern at the back door. I often think of this episode in my life..
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Me too... I was pretty physically able back then, despite a recent MI. I got half way through re-layng the lot round the back a couple of years ago when my knees gave up and I STILL find myself thinking.. 'Well, maybe I could just do one paver a day..."

It's an illness... Just 'get a man in'...o_O
 
Mullardman said:
Me too... I was pretty physically able back then, despite a recent MI. I got half way through re-layng the lot round the back a couple of years ago when my knees gave up and I STILL find myself thinking.. 'Well, maybe I could just do one paver a day..."

It's an illness... Just 'get a man in'...o_O
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Yer, I tried to fix a water leak recently.. spent an age getting round to hiring a specialist firm that took three hours to fix it for a grand. My water bill is much larger for my dithering. I have to except I’m ‘old people’:)
 
Big Tabs said:
ouch.


Just did one of the things in life that one should not do.

Cutting some onions,
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My sympathies - did something similar a while back with a very powerful soldering iron - why in Sod's Law did I not catch the fooking handle on the way down!!!
Took quite a while for the burnt fingers to heal ....
 
Mullardman said:
With a bit of decent sticking plaster and a pair of scissors, you..or maybe someone else who isn't bleeding out all over the floor..can make a fair representation of a 'butterfly' stitch and use that to pull the wound together.
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yer
I have pulled the wound together with careful plaster positioning.
later today I will clean and redress it. Daughter will pop over and gorp at the wound. She might even have a N.A. (non-adhesive) dressing for me.
fairly easy to make paper sutures with micropore dressing tape, so Daughter might enjoy doing that for me. Wound care is such fun. (no irony)
 
martin clark said:
  • facework = finished visible area; what you look at. That means, for a garden wall - both sides.
  • I've assumed the wall is ' a full brick thick', if you see what I mean.
  • about 15% of the visible face of any brick wall is actually .. just the mortar! the colour, but mostly: how well the bricks are laid /the regularity of the work (do the vertical joints between bricks (- the 'perpends / perps/' line up, vertically etc?) - all make a huge difference to the perceived quality of the result. In a way that is 'uncanny valley' to the casual eye - when you glance at it, you can tell something isn't quite right - but might well struggle to describe why not, for a thing you are used to seeing in the background, everyday.
HTH.
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thank you. That is useful information.
 
Finished my business in London and going home to work for the rest of the day. All new to me, always had a London office to work from previously. Will get to listen to some tunes which a bonus.

Cheers BB
 
sitting in on a demo of some software to help us manage the ethical clearance process.

on leave this afternoon - might starting fitting the new lock to the garage door. Off to a beer festival in St Albans this evening
 
Good deed for the day: rounding up a wandering dog whose collar had no ID, and walking it down to the local vets so it could have its chip read. The vet found contact details for the owners and has left a message. Hopefully they'll be reunited soon.
Edit: got a lovely thank you call from the owners this evening. Apparently their builder had left a door open and the little tyke had wandered off. He was about a quarter of a mile from home, and they were at work all day and didn’t know until they got the message from the vet.
 
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3 hours here before Craft and Cleavage

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Today I've mostly been ripping season 4 of Farscape to my media pc for viewing at my liesure on a later date. Bit of a slow old job though, it's 22 episodes on 10 DVDs. It'll be worth it though. One of the best sci-fi series ever made.
 
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