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    Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House

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    • bryaneidins70B
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      ^^^^ 😃 😃 😃 :D^^^^  😎

      'Fail we may…Sail we must'

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      • Matty123M
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        @neph93:

        @Matty123:

        What are you putting in the joints?

        Are we still talking about the paving? [emoji15]

        Reuben saves the day with some well placed humor!

        Maybe so. Maybe not

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        • GilesG
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          @Matty123:

          What are you putting in the joints?

          One part cement plus one part lime to six parts soft sand….(approx.....), but I want the jointing to be fairly close to the slab colour, so we will alter as necessary....

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • Matty123M
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            Right on. That’s cool.

            Maybe so. Maybe not

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            • GilesG
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              The acid test and something that Les and I were a little worried about.  Glad to report, not a slab moved….

              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              • GilesG
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                I've only got Les 2 days a week at the moment, so things are going slower than I like.  But today we started pointing the slabs and I am over the moon with the result….

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • mclaincauseyM
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                  Rightly so!

                  Think it, be it.

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                  • motojoboboM
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                    Pointing? I’ll have to look that up.

                    The journey is the objective.

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                    • GilesG
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                      http://www.pavingexpert.com/pointing.htm

                      http://www.pavingexpert.com/jointing03.htm

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      • GilesG
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                        I am an inveterate horder of stuff that may come in useful.  These 19th Century granite blocks have been lying around for years waiting for me to think of something to do with them.

                        Well, I have some ideas (helped by @Madame Buttonfly's dictat "I down want any piles of fucking shite lying around here when you've finished the extension"), first of them….

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        • Madame ButtonflyM
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                          Well, I have some ideas (helped by @Madame Buttonfly's dictat "I down want any piles of fucking shite lying around here when you've finished the extension"), first of them….

                          I'm sure I didn't use that nasty word…

                          I think I said fucking crap  😃

                          AKA Mrs G

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                          • GilesG
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                            And I found this piece of broken cast iron grille in the garden at the office…..re-purped FTW....

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            • S
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                              I'm sure I didn't use that nasty word…

                              I think I said fucking crap  😃

                              Ha!

                              I can only imagine what it feels like to actually use items of the unthrowawayable hoard (of shite) I’ve gathered.
                              One day…

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                              • GilesG
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                                The wood store was knocked up by Les yesterday and today.  Timber needs staining and the coping stones mucked in…..

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  That right there is the difference between framing in Norway and framing in the UK. Simple structure, but the span between those two 2x4 posts would necessitate a post in the middle in Norway. Because snow.

                                  «Stevie Heighway on the wing!
                                  We had dreams, and songs to sing…»

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                                  • GilesG
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                                    What's snow?

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    • GilesG
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                                      Courtyard/driveway effectively finished…..

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      • Matty123M
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                                        And I found this piece of broken cast iron grille in the garden at the office…..re-purped FTW....

                                        FTW is a favorite of mine. I picked it up from a crane operator/hells angel, who in the 80’s, would regularly paint that on the side of container ships in 10 foot white letters. Gateway terminal port in new haven CT. FTW indeed

                                        Maybe so. Maybe not

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          @Matty123 The other half re-purped FTW…..

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                            On Friday I had the building regs person come to check on what we have done and sign off the build as conforming to current building regulations.  I was a little worried because there are a couple of areas, I have ignored the regulations, basically to make the extension more in keeping with how the original house was built.

                                            G - "Hello, so what do you need to see/do?"
                                            Regs Person - "Oh just have a quick look"

                                            Pops her head into the kitchen, says "Wow".

                                            G - "So what now?"
                                            Regs Person - "I'll sign it off"

                                            She leaves.

                                            Les (who was higgering in the background in case we needed to explain stuff ) - "You jammy fucker"…..

                                            Kerboom.......

                                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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