Shout out to the wet trades!

[blue matt]

You don’t sound flash butt, although the way you’ve turned a thread about working in the heat to manage to give the actual dimensions of a pool you’re building does certainly make you read like one.

I’m sure that’s not the case,

You still on furlough?

it was only sticking poles into joints and then spreading out the liner, the point was it was hard work in this heat, which is why i mentioned it

Never really been on Furlough, stopped work at the 1st lockdown till BoJo said the construction trade should return, but worked since, still a fair bit of work down per week as some of my commercial work are having me less often, but its not a massive issue, Sure i'd like to get back to normal, but i can wait

[blue matt]

Use an auger. Fast effective and not expensive. And you don't dig up anything you really don't need to.
They're great unless you hit a plastic waste pipe. One I hit working in Southampton (Which shouldn't have been there) stopped the auger dead and threw me across a car park. My buddy on the other side flew off in the opposite direction.

Im using a Auger to dig " pile holes " to fill with Concrete to sit the mancave on, got to be easier than trenches, driving holes about 1/2 M deep and then just pouring 250mm trenches on top of them

[MacAdder]

Anyone else laying blocks, plastering, rendering, laying floors in this evil weather? Or on site, general building etc? Holy Shit, this weather has almost killed me, just unloading the tools is enough to finish me off Just to add balance, everyone working in this heat has my sympathy, we're just not used to it and move about too quickly, although i suppose that if you're in the office and they have air con, then it's not so bad.

Working from home has its drawbacks, Internet speed, claustrophobia, interruptions, same 4 walls... as well as the tedium of net meetings.

Feck all compared to you heroes out there!
I salute you all 👏

[Wash DC Blue]

Is Texas a drier heat? And if so, what's the difference? Sorry for the meteorological questions

I would think so, but that is an assumption.
Will check it out tomorrow.

[NYCBlue]

I would think so, but that is an assumption.
Will check it out tomorrow.

It gets humid down there. Houston is hot and humid as ****. West Texas not so much. I'll never forget the first time I came to the East Coast. I landed in Newark, went through customs, collected my bags, etc. and then walked outside. It was 9pm on an August night. I had never felt anything like it in my life. It was like someone dropped a warm, damp blanket on me. Today was relatively cool and dry compared to earlier in the week, but it was still 29 degrees and it's 26 now at 10:30pm.

[Jimmy the Jock]

I’m down to seven stone!!! Blockwork on an extension in Palace Road, laying overhand on the scaffold with next door’s conservatory directly underneath Horrible week but it’s up to wall plate, 3.5m ceiling height, like the Cistine Chapel mun

WOW, you have lost 12 stone Steve ?

[splott parker]

I hope that you're cleaning the snobs of muck off the conservatory!

The muck stays firmly on the bed and perps my dear, don’t overload either, mortar waste on the floor = £sd wasted

[splott parker]

WOW, you have lost 12 stone Steve ?

You know me so well James, saying that it’s fallen off me given that I haven’t had a session with you for a while

[splott parker]

Looking forward to leaving home now for another day of anguish lovely job ahead of me, dressing natural stone to a uniform width, Cool Hand Luke’s got nothing on me

[the other bob wilson]

Working from home has its drawbacks, Internet speed, claustrophobia, interruptions, same 4 walls... as well as the tedium of net meetings.

Feck all compared to you heroes out there!
I salute you all ��

I know how much of a waste of space I'd have been even thirty or forty years ago when I was much fitter than I am now doing the sort of work talked about in this thread, so I join in with your salute, but how about a word for people working in takeaways in this sort of weather? Back during that lovely spell we had in 2018, I went to my favourite chippy around here on a sweltering day and had to wait about ten minutes for a new lot of chips to be fried. By the time, they'd been done, I was genuinely feeling decidedly queasy because the air I was breathing in was not just warm, it was hot - it only took me a few minutes to feel so ill, yet the poor so and so's working there had to put up with that for hours on end.

[splott parker]

I know how much of a waste of space I'd have been even thirty or forty years ago when I was much fitter than I am now doing the sort of work talked about in this thread, so I join in with your salute, but how about a word for people working in takeaways in this sort of weather? Back during that lovely spell we had in 2018, I went to my favourite chippy around here on a sweltering day and had to wait about ten minutes for a new lot of chips to be fried. By the time, they'd been done, I was genuinely feeling decidedly queasy because the air I was breathing in was not just warm, it was hot - it only took me a few minutes to feel so ill, yet the poor so and so's working there had to put up with that for hours on end.

They never used to complain in Thayer’s on Wellfield Road

[Tuerto]

They never used to complain in Thayer’s on Wellfield Road

There's a Thayers shop in Bath, i only found our recently. Blue Matt will probably have a 3 page story on it

[MacAdder]

They never used to complain in Thayer’s on Wellfield Road

They did mid-January!

[dembethewarrior]

I've bee digging holes for fence posts.
Fecking hard,hot work for an amateur, though I'm sure I'm doing it right.
Just hate when you're almost deep enough - then hit a brick.

You using post hole diggers? Can't remember the spelling, shivolas (that's probably a million miles off the spelling ) used to use them on the railways for digging makes life much easier, but still not straightforward in this heat.

[dembethewarrior]

There's a Thayers shop in Bath, i only found our recently. Blue Matt will probably have a 3 page story on it

With loads of things written (like) this (randomly) and must have a mention of (Disney). 😉

[bobh]

You using post hole diggers? Can't remember the spelling, shivolas (that's probably a million miles off the spelling ) used to use them on the railways for digging makes life much easier, but still not straightforward in this heat.

I've got a Big heavy spike for breaking the earth and one of those big tweezer things to grab the loosened soil. Didn't realise it was called a shivola. Makes life easy - until you hit a brick, and there's quite a few in my garden.
I think the builders dumped a few buckets of topsoil over their rubbish when they finished the actual house.

[Optimistic Nick]

Good plasterers and bricklayers are basically a different species. For your common or garden human, plastering is essentially impossible. Anyone can sort-of do a shit job of bricklaying, but to do it accurately and fast.... Bonkers. I've spent over £30k on plastering in the last 6 years and I'm someone who will take on most jobs in the house so an area where I might have tried to save myself a stack of money. But plastering... ****ing hell not a chance. I'm more mystified by the work of a good plasterer than I am of the work of a spinal surgeon.

Shit plasterers can **** off tho. Had one have a tantrum and walk off the job (£15k of work!) when his plaster crazed. It was 35 degrees that day so I do have some sympathy, but if you don't know how to deal with the conditions just say! I wasn't in a rush to get it done.

[splott parker]

Good plasterers and bricklayers are basically a different species. For your common or garden human, plastering is essentially impossible. Anyone can sort-of do a shit job of bricklaying, but to do it accurately and fast.... Bonkers. I've spent over £30k on plastering in the last 6 years and I'm someone who will take on most jobs in the house so an area where I might have tried to save myself a stack of money. But plastering... ****ing hell not a chance. I'm more mystified by the work of a good plasterer than I am of the work of a spinal surgeon.

Shit plasterers can **** off tho. Had one have a tantrum and walk off the job (£15k of work!) when his plaster crazed. It was 35 degrees that day so I do have some sympathy, but if you don't know how to deal with the conditions just say! I wasn't in a rush to get it done.

Fair play I’ve been a bricklayer for 50 years this September, never been referred to as a different specie

[bobh]

I've done my own plastering, and I was proud of the result.
Never tried bricklaying tho.

[Tuerto]

I've done my own plastering, and I was proud of the result.
Never tried bricklaying tho.

Good effort mate. I do it for a living, and to be able to DIY it takes some skills. Well done

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Good effort mate. I do it for a living, and to be able to DIY it takes some skills. Well done

I went on one of those 5 day slap it on plastering courses about 20 years ago

All I could produce was a cow pat which ran down the wall

My apologies

I leave it to those who know

Multi skilled tradesmen do exist and if you know one grab him by the bollocks

[Tuerto]

I went on one of those 5 day slap it on plastering courses about 20 years ago

All I could produce was a cow pat which ran down the wall

My apologies

I leave it to those who know

Multi skilled tradesmen do exist and if you know one grab him by the bollocks

It's difficult to learn in 5 days. Plastering is a trade where you learn from your mistakes, there is so much that can't be taught. You literally have to **** things up before you improve, as mad as that sounds.

[LeningradCowboy]

It's difficult to learn in 5 days. Plastering is a trade where you learn from your mistakes, there is so much that can't be taught. You literally have to **** things up before you improve, as mad as that sounds.

That is how you learn to do anything unfamiliar!

[xsnaggle]

You always know a good plasterer when you watch him and he makes it look easy. It aint!!!
A friend of mine is a top plasterer and I recall one day he had just plastered a big long wall in a new Hardrock Cafe in Bristol. The client rep was visiting the site and said, "Oh no, that's no good. It'll have to be done again." We all stopped and looked at him in dis belief, it was perfect. The plasterer was furious and told him so.
The client said, "No, you don't understand. It's supposed to look uneven and cracked and tired, this looks far t0o good."
The plasterer had to admit he didn't know now to deliberately do it 'bad'!!

[Tuerto]

That is how you learn to do anything unfamiliar!

Not on some ****ers house you don't and that's the truth.