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Yesterday I chopped a huge pile of wood using a chop saw. Not sure reporting activities from the day before breaches the topic's rules.
What "man jobs" have you done today?
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Cleared the hallway of moving boxes and crap, so a gardener can go nuclear on our garden/fence/hedge monstrosity. It's a mix of conifers, tree trunks and that flexible plastic mesh they use to mark roadworks out. All grown together, with a sycamore and a leylandii as tall as the 2nd floor.
Going to have it all out and have a simple fence so we have low maintenance, for now. Really not gardening people just yet and house renovation takes priority.
Pics to come once there's progress, I suspect my man job will be paying the bill
Going to have it all out and have a simple fence so we have low maintenance, for now. Really not gardening people just yet and house renovation takes priority.
Pics to come once there's progress, I suspect my man job will be paying the bill
Ive noticed in this forum there is a lot of over engineering and over thinking goes into to a lot of the projects. I've put wooden decks/fences in that have lasted 20+ years and outbuildings that are 25+ years in use.
Ive been using SIP panels (Structural insulated panels) for workshops/garden rooms. Really quick construction on site. Get them precut as forming the rebates yourself gets messy with the insulation getting everywhere. Wrap it then clad it with what takes your fancy. The last one I did was clad in siberian larch which has started to silver nicely.
Ive been using SIP panels (Structural insulated panels) for workshops/garden rooms. Really quick construction on site. Get them precut as forming the rebates yourself gets messy with the insulation getting everywhere. Wrap it then clad it with what takes your fancy. The last one I did was clad in siberian larch which has started to silver nicely.
Man jobs i have done today
I picked up my debit card and ordered some Kandla grey sandstone slabs (900x600) and a jumbo bag of MOT type 1 and Sharp sand. £515 for all delivered
Booked 2 days off MOnday and Tuesday to continue with the work
I picked up my debit card and ordered some Kandla grey sandstone slabs (900x600) and a jumbo bag of MOT type 1 and Sharp sand. £515 for all delivered
Booked 2 days off MOnday and Tuesday to continue with the work
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Had a massive poo, more of a man jobbie really. Also got to change the fork oil on my street triple but ive not motivated enough yet.
Well, he was supposed to turn up today, we messaged at 8am today to arrange delivery of something later this week, I'm guessing this means he won't start until later this week? I say guessing because he hasn't turned up nor has he messaged to say when he will or won't. Comms have been slow in the past so it's not out of the norm but I was expecting him to be here today...Not very manly of me but I've got someone coming over to finish off some work I startedhopefully he does a semi-reasonable job, 'good' is probably too much to ask for these days isn't it?
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Where did you order your slabs from?
I need x5 kandla grey 900x600 to redo a small path between our driveway and front door, but am struggling to find somewhere fairly local than can deliver the above small quantity for a reasonable price.
Local place by me in Cardiff - Called "Brickability"
The quality of the slabs are really good and its a good professional quality place, lots of stock, they have a display area out the front (which can be seen on their website home page)
if you need a catalogue they have some there
Brickability | Brick Supplier & Stockist
Brickability is a market leading brick supplier that meets customer needs through both supply-to-order and our retail and trade depots.
brickabilitycardiff.co.uk
if you give them a call they may deliver to bristol,
I have had to pay £80 for delivery, their place is about 15 min drive from my house on the other side of cardiff, they are not far from Cardiff Bay area
The 900x 600 Kandla grey sandstone slabs i have gone for cost £14.99 ext vat and delivery
For 17 slabs i paid £401 which includes VAT and includes delivery.
They sell the slabs individually aswel so you dont have to buy a pack or full crate.
Do you own an estate car or 4x4 or a car with a larger boot size that seats can go down ? you maybe able to get 5 in the back of your car? Save yourself some delivery but you would have to drive over the bridge to Cardiff.
Thats from the display area, really not the best pics as it was my phone
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Local place by me in Cardiff - Called "Brickability"
The quality of the slabs are really good and its a good professional quality place, lots of stock, they have a display area out the front (which can be seen on their website home page)
if you need a catalogue they have some there
Brickability | Brick Supplier & Stockist
Brickability is a market leading brick supplier that meets customer needs through both supply-to-order and our retail and trade depots.
if you give them a call they may deliver to bristol,
I have had to pay £80 for delivery, their place is about 15 min drive from my house on the other side of cardiff, they are not far from Cardiff Bay area
The 900x 600 Kandla grey sandstone slabs i have gone for cost £14.99 ext vat and delivery
For 17 slabs i paid £401 which includes VAT and includes delivery.
They sell the slabs individually aswel so you dont have to buy a pack or full crate.
Do you own an estate car or 4x4 or a car with a larger boot size that seats can go down ? you maybe able to get 5 in the back of your car? Save yourself some delivery but you would have to drive over the bridge to Cardiff.
Thats from the display area, really not the best pics as it was my phone
Thanks for this info, that's very helpful. We can certainly drive over there, were in North Bristol and can be on the M4 in 5 mins.
I will make enquiries with them directly, but seeing as you've just bought some slabs from them, please can you confirm if the kandla grey 900x600 slabs you have bought are of uniform thickness and what the approximate thickness is?
I did a patio 2 years ago in kandla grey and they were "calibrated" to be uniform thickness of about 22mm.
I have a few left over and want to top them up with similar slabs for the path at the front of the house.
Thanks
That's the way. Start them young. I'm lucky if I can convince mine to do any form of Dad jobs.
"Hold this."
"Can you see it coming through?".
"Pull that".
"OK lift".
"Bit more".
"**** sake".
The language of Dad jobs.
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Cool. Im surprised you couldn't find anything local in Bristol that is a similar type of independent..
Mine are being delivered on Thursday. But according to the catalogue. For single size version it said each flag is 24mm thick obviously because they are not here yet I can't tell the consistency. Should be ok compared to other places
I didn't see the job lot when I went there I just seen the display areas.
The quality of them looked really good much better than places like wicks, bnq or local building merchants. Obviously this is what they specialise in as the core of the business so the quality is good.
The catalogues are printed and look very professional
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Thanks for that info, our slabs may well be 24mm, but in any case 2mm won't matter once they're bedded down.
Yes I've been struggling to find somewhere in Bristol that supplies single slabs, and was quoted £90 delivery from another supplier which I'm loathe to pay for £100 worth of goods.
Thanks again.
No worries.. yeh they are more than happy to sell singles
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I let my 6 year old loose with a ckaw hammer to break up a pallet (even got him to put some gogs on). He loved it, he couldn't get the hang of squaring up the nails to knock them out, but he enjoined pulling them out and braying (northern slang for hitting something) the **** out of the wood
. To the guy above, I'd be wary about 6 slabs in your boot, that's going to be quite a bit of weight, not sure if its too much.
lol! Reminds me, I did 6 council slabs in my wifes Seat Ibiza. The next day I went to use the car and the reversing camera was DISTINCTLY pointing in a different orientation lol. Kept my mouth shut
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Glad this was a one man job, however big it was
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Bathroom sink mixer tap had started to leak from round the handle. So replaced it with a new one. Fairly straightforward job.
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I let my 6 year old loose with a ckaw hammer to break up a pallet (even got him to put some gogs on). He loved it, he couldn't get the hang of squaring up the nails to knock them out, but he enjoined pulling them out and braying (northern slang for hitting something) the **** out of the wood
Yes I've been thinking about it, just spoke to the place who advised 5 slabs will be approx 100kg.
No way would I drive the car with the rear seats down with that in the back, because in the event of a crash it would get launched into us.
I've measured up the boot on the Mrs's Astra and it can comfortably accommodate the slabs without putting the seats down. 100kg is around the weight of 2 adults in the rear seats, so I think me and the Mrs up front, the back seats empty and 5 slabs in the boot will be ok.