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Bastard PO buried a bunch of smashed glass near the slab. Thought I’d got it all but sliced my finger open on a buried piece, straight through my new gloves. I’m urgent care for sutures but should be fine.
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Well that's annoying. Get well soon JB.
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Jul 29, 2021 17:09
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“Let’s them bastards try to steal me concrete slab now,” as the PO cackles into a throaty cough.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:16
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At least you did not lose entire fingat That's a bummer though  PO
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Jul 29, 2021 18:22
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Steri strips and a tetanus booster, gotta go easy on it for a week.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:33
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For fucks sake PO. Hope there's no lasting effects JB.
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Jul 29, 2021 23:02
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I'm starting to worry there's some ancient horror buried under there. Watch out for curses and suspicious people in old robes.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:28
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you ate my cat posted:I'm starting to worry there's some ancient horror buried under there. Watch out for curses and suspicious people in old robes. I was honestly starting to look for bones. Maybe I got too close.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:30
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Bought a cheap 4ft wrecker bar and was able to pull out the remaining edge pieces using some wood for a pivot with no further loss of fingers. Also works pretty well for pulling up the paving slabs so I'll likely keep doing that. 
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Jul 31, 2021 12:27
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Jaded Burnout posted:I was honestly starting to look for bones. Maybe I got too close.
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Jul 31, 2021 12:42
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Bones embedded in the concrete? 
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Jul 31, 2021 12:59
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do you own all the equipment you are using or did you borrow some of it? like this stuff
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Jul 31, 2021 15:00
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I own all of it. I'm fortunate to have money to spare.
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Jul 31, 2021 20:19
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I really like that RUB rack, did that come as a set?
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Rapulum_Dei posted:I really like that RUB rack, did that come as a set? It's modular. You buy each slot individually based on the boxes you want to put in, and then they clip together. You then buy a top piece for however wide your rack is and wheels for the bottom. It's easy and quick but not very rigid, Perhaps better for something half the height and/or lighter contents. As it is I have zip ties holding the columns together, and it's sat on a sheet of OSB with screwed on castors rather than the small ones it came with (which snapped). The curse of structural plastic. https://www.reallyusefulstorageboxes.co.uk/really-useful-storage-towers-c102x2076713?page=2 Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Aug 1, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2021 11:18
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TTerrible posted:Bones embedded in the concrete? Under the concrete. I like to think it might’ve been a rubbish put for his dog’s leftovers but… 🤷♂️
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Aug 1, 2021 12:52
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Today's goal, clear all this: Dug out and broken up.  Cleared.  I'll leave the small stuff either as drainage or the landscapers can use it. Skip is nearly full, but tomorrow's goal is to clear all remaining bricks, including a bunch that were used as a pad for the greenhouse.
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Today's goal was to clear what I thought was a brick pad under this area. Turns out it was only lined with brick, the main body of the pad is broken and mismatched pavers.  In theory this makes it easier to dig up, but I decided I was done with this anyway. I've done more than enough clearance to give me room to work and I've made good use of the skip, so I'm happy enough. I'll move the rest to the side and start on digging out the foundations shortly. The landscapers can do the rest, when it comes to it.  The underlay arrived, so I'll get started on some of the flooring soon. Still trying to get a quote out of my carpet guy for supply and fitting in the main bedroom.   Took the pallet from that and a couple of others I had lying around, laid them out as a staging area for construction materials, though now I look at it I may have to move it along, it might be overlapping the dig site a bit.  I'll get all that on order when I have a green light from the council.
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"Did you load this or was it the builders?", asked the skip guy, moving around chunks of concrete above signs clearly marked LEVEL LOADS ONLY. "We need them level loads so we can stack them, you see". "Yeah it was the builders", I lied cowardly, "I'll get them to do better next time, sorry".
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Aug 4, 2021 09:32
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The joist designer needed a drawing of the roof detail, so that's what I did this afternoon.
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Bought some cheap engineered oak flooring for the guest bedroom. Cost about £220 delivered for an 8sqm room.
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Spoke again with the joist manufacturer. Apparently a bunch of their bigger jobs have been pushed back due to the customers being unable to source bricks! So 5 weeks lead time has become 2 weeks. Just waiting on the council..
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Jaded Burnout posted:Spoke again with the joist manufacturer. Apparently a bunch of their bigger jobs have been pushed back due to the customers being unable to source bricks! So 5 weeks lead time has become 2 weeks. Just waiting on the council.. Too bad you threw all those dug up bricks away, sounds like there's a market for them!
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tangy yet delightful posted:Too bad you threw all those dug up bricks away, sounds like there's a market for them! 
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It's a good gag but I only got rid of a handful. The real prize would've been reselling the "reclaimed" bricks from when I tore the house apart.
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Aug 6, 2021 18:47
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Jaded Burnout posted:It's a good gag but I only got rid of a handful. The real prize would've been reselling the "reclaimed" bricks from when I tore the house apart. What kind of joists are you using that need manufacturing? Steel trusses or LVLs or those OSB things? At least for a minute here light steel trusses were cheaper than lumber joists.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:What kind of joists are you using that need manufacturing? Steel trusses or LVLs or those OSB things? At least for a minute here light steel trusses were cheaper than lumber joists. The particular ones I'm going for are called "easi-joists", which are normal slim timber joined by metal webs. Delivered they're going to be cheaper than the equivalent sawn timber would be, if I could get it, which I can't. 5m open span is right up at the limit for that size of sawn joist, but the engineered ones do an easy 22m if needed.
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I’d like to get some stuff done outside but it won’t stop loving raining.
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Aug 7, 2021 16:48
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Bathroom fan broke. Replaced it, slightly sloppily, but good enough.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I’d like to get some stuff done outside but it won’t stop loving raining. I'll trade you rain for heat and smoke.
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dragonshardz posted:I'll trade you rain for heat and smoke. I'll take the heat and also trade you wind, that should fix your smoke.
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Finally, a clear day. Prepped for digging.  Materials storage space moved.  Timber and junk moved out of the way of the soil dump.  Digging area cleared.  Tomorrow I can set up the laser level and start digging.
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Laser level screwed to the fence at a known height from datum (bottom of gravel board), depth stick with reflector set at laser height plus desired depth (330mm; 150mm clearance plus 150mm for 2x6 joists plus 30mm for flooring). Dig hole.  Check hole. (sorry about focus)  Continue dig hole.   I've also been talking to the joist manufacturers to get a final quote, we're nearly done with that. Also, the flooring for the guest bedroom arrived today. A day late, but, couriers. Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Aug 12, 2021 |
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You can finally earn your PhD!
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:You can finally earn your PhD! idgi
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Man that one must have the apprentices doubled over.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Man that one must have the apprentices doubled over. You have really wonderful looking black dirt-don't let the landscapers run off with it!
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It's even richer looking in person. Lovely stuff.
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