Air conditioned offices are a thing of the past for those of us home working. Glad I'm indoors though.
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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.
Air conditioned offices are a thing of the past for those of us home working. Glad I'm indoors though.
When I was with Darlington’s felt roofing, in weather like this we used to get on site by 6am and work through till it got too hot . (1970’s)
When I first got to America I worked as a Chipie/Roofers mate in the middle of summer.
It was ridiculously hot on the roofs.
Had the week off, looked after the Dog, sat in the lounge with the aircon on, as soon as i leave the lounge its bloody boiling
Yesterday had to build the new Pool ( its slightly better than last years inflatable one, its a above ground 15ft pool with a decent frame around it, sorry i sound flash for anyone here, its not really that flash though, here it is https://www.bestwaystore.co.uk/15-x4...-pool-set.html Big enough to swim in, its a nice 4ft deep ) that took some handling to put together in the heat, its filled now and lovely to relax in, got to get myself some loungers to float around on
Ive roofed buildings in the heat ( when you couldnt pick up the slates as they were too hot ) and the freezing cold ( when you could take off your gloves, lay the palm of your hand on the slate and the thing would stick to your warm hand and you could wave it around and it still wouldnt move )
Roofers have all the extremes
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
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.
Wet trades are wet trades cos they'd make a crap carpenter
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.