A lot of them 'types' think they can get away with it - my partner in my building company is my mum and you should see there faces when she fucking puts em in there place and tells THEM there job- Priceless.

i will be following this mate... one day i will be building my own garage, not someone elses!

 

[QUOTE=Matt Baxter;5588236]well Its been fucking mental here in the last few days,
I really wanted the Cossy kept here while the builders do the extension on the house but had nowhere to keep it out the way of them,

will let the pics do the talking for a min

little bro doing a bit!





So what did you pay for youre concrete ? Mines coming next weekend

 

I paid Ł1575 for mix on site for 14.2 m3 c30 mix from master concrete,
the 2nd driver was very helpful just a shame the first one wasn't lol
If you need a long shoot tell them it's no good coming out with out them!!

 

Nice work there

 

Get a move on Baxter!!

 

Cheers

Bollocks

Have ordered 700 10.5 nm dense blocks so thet will be here on tuesday as no fucker stocks them everybody thats seen the garage base says the its massively over engineered

 

Have u had the CARBON garage door made yet Matt

 

Matt... you building a fooking NCP car park or what?? i think your engineer was on LSD...

at least if we have a nuclear holocaust or a tsunami you will be sorted!

hurry up too...

Lennie

 

Would be cheaper mate think imin to it for about 3k already now
Thats it mate everybody and i mean every fucker has said the same sort of thing thinking I should have got a 2nd opinion as my mate that doing the block work isnt happy
although hes onabout doing it for 2 hours a night as hes here during the day doing the extention so shouldnt take too long once the block work is up it "should" fly up

 

lightweight blockwork flies up!! however 10.5nm blocks....

 

yeah ad that to that i will need to shift then round the back as the hiab is rear mounted on the Jewsons truck so cant off load round the back

 

ahhh no you never bought from jewsons! bigger ripoff than secs!!! lol

 

Well same here everybody has said i,ve gone over the top But at least the base is never going to move or crack

Standing joke is What you building twin towers : )

Well I filled my footing today 5.5 cubic meters

 

with those footings you could probably put a couple extra floors of workshop space on top

 

have you secretly won the lottery matt?

you seem to be spending more money that manchester city lately

 

best get a thread up matey

lol yeay you are prob right

If only mate, if I had I would be paying someone to build it all for me

 

Lol they came back with the best price by quite a few quid

and with the missus changing her mind and now wanting bi-folding doors in the extension I need to save as much as poss on the garage

 

Good work

 

i have a company at the moment that are quoting on my job for bifold doors atm.. want the details?

 

Cheers Lennie, but they have already been ordered last week its just the missus has only just told me

 

Did you get alloy or upvc.

Mark

 

No idea Mark will ask matey tomorrow I assume they will be upvc to match the rest of the house

 

I have upvc bifolds and my sister has alloy hers are better.

Mark

 

what Mark said. upvc are shit. the nes i have just had quoted are 3.6m wide by 2.5 high. 5k fitted. with blinds....

 

Best find out before its to late then

 

PVCU bi folds aren't shit, its all down to a) quality of the rollers/mechanisms used b) who's put them together and c) who fits them. But all things being equal ali is the better material to go for. But much more expensive!

OP, Nice garage build by the way!!!

 

fair point.

 

Well??

 

well what?

The block work should be started tomorrow/ next week with any luck

 

matt ,that engineer is taking the piss lol,the 10.5 newton block will oly be its strenght in compression which you certainly dont need .you do need concrete blocks but the stanard ones would have been more than capable .

ive worked on apartment blocks engineered by orav arups ,probably the biggest engineering company in the world ,and we built 6 stories of blockwork on 12inches of concrete and standard blocks

 

James, my mate is a hoddie and was telling me the same sort of thing, so once we have finished using him and its all signed off I am having it out with him

had 2 of the lads that are doing the extension do a bit of block work today for a bit of cash well Ł15ph each but they got a fair bit done







so at least its moving in the right direction now so thats me happy even if its costing me more than I wanted but it was always going to wasnt it

 

your brickies are doing a first rate job their matt ,

 

yeah i'm very happy well other than having to pay them lol
one of the guys is only 21 and is proper quick and is more than happy to help me learn so I can get a bit done myself, although i think i will keep to the outer skin tho
oh and im doing all the lifting and shifting getting the blocks moved on to the slab with the muck truck makes it a bit easier for me still got to move around 450 over the next few days

 

10 newton blocks are pretty heavy ,until you have to lay the 9 x9x18 inch ones matt,they are killers .usually used in liftshafts etc

 

i remember working in a builders yard years ago and we used to shift plenty of pallets of those 4 inch concrete blocks, but we only stocked 3 pallets of 9 inch blocks, and fuck me were they heavy

properly overkill for building anything other than anti tank bunkers

 

whats with the dig dag bar tight up to the block work?

 

I can only imagine

overkill never mate you will all be sorry when ww3 kicks off lol

dig dag bar never heard it called that before

Anyway its got to a have another skin built up and then the cavity filled with concrete

 

I assume that's to create a reinforced wall below ground level?

 

yep spot on

 

Got the brickie to do a day on saturday and then had a go at it today and got 30 blocks down in 2 hours so im happy with it so far







told the guy that I will be over boarding the blockwork with ply so not to worry to much about the finish but he still doing it like face work whereas mine well look at the pics lol







its still moving slower than I would like but at least it heading the right way now

this the extension we are having done not bad for 2 lads and 6 working days