The 'Today's Job' thread

[Giles]

Annoying job changing all drains on house with 1 Tennant and 2 air bnb guest in it! Go out stop using bloody toilets.

Splitting from combined to split system with soakaway in field. Drain survey condemned most of it, holes, displaced joints lost Ics etc

Cellar been filling up from big leak on soil stack and top water gulley was leaking as well

Sitestak just lift able with 3 ton but not confidently off the trailer

 

[Smiffy]

Is that just a spirit level slightly offset or can you adjust the falls??

 

[Furniss]

Annoying job changing all drains on house with 1 Tennant and 2 air bnb guest in it! Go out stop using bloody toilets.

Splitting from combined to split system with soakaway in field. Drain survey condemned most of it, holes, displaced joints lost Ics etc

Cellar been filling up from big leak on soil stack and top water gulley was leaking as well

Sitestak just lift able with 3 ton but not confidently off the trailer

Must be a fair lump your sitestack !
3t lifts mine pop and 1.7t lifts it kind of

 

[hiluxman]

Annoying job changing all drains on house with 1 Tennant and 2 air bnb guest in it! Go out stop using bloody toilets.

Splitting from combined to split system with soakaway in field. Drain survey condemned most of it, holes, displaced joints lost Ics etc

Cellar been filling up from big leak on soil stack and top water gulley was leaking as well

Sitestak just lift able with 3 ton but not confidently off the trailer

We returned to a new build yesterday where we had installed all the drainage, only to find the doesy landscapers had took a micro down the side of the house, not only smashing the Chambers and gullys to bits but also destroying his nice new windows and wedging it nicely against the building.

A service I'd of provided but no its cheaper to let landscapers loose on a hired in micro

 

[DaveDCB]

My next job is a similar one @Giles , except my customer said they’ll just go on holiday for a week out of the way

 

[Giles]

Is that just a spirit level slightly offset or can you adjust the falls??

Pipe level best thing I’ve bought for drainage but now sold out everywhere, has 4 stops 1:40, 1:60, 1:80, 1:100 put it on pipe with arrow with fall boom.

I did a big house 60m drains 16 Ics to get rd 3 sides I was only 5mm out on invert to tank when checked with total station

 

[Giles]

Must be a fair lump your sitestack !
3t lifts mine pop and 1.7t lifts it kind of

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3.6m long my 1.6m wide fair bit of steel in it, I was lifting long ways from back and kx71 done 5k hours so not her best at lifting

Think it’s about 500kg empty then we had pipe and about 100 collars

 

[Giles]

My next job is a similar one @Giles , except my customer said they’ll just go on holiday for a week out of the way

This gotta to be done by 28th year end so rush job

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Pipe level best thing I’ve bought for drainage but now sold out everywhere, has 4 stops 1:40, 1:60, 1:80, 1:100 put it on pipe with arrow with fall boom.

I did a big house 60m drains 16 Ics to get rd 3 sides I was only 5mm out on invert to tank when checked with total station

So simple, what a brilliant idea! Even builders would be able to work that out I reckon!

 

[Smiffy]

Pipe level best thing I’ve bought for drainage but now sold out everywhere, has 4 stops 1:40, 1:60, 1:80, 1:100 put it on pipe with arrow with fall boom.

I did a big house 60m drains 16 Ics to get rd 3 sides I was only 5mm out on invert to tank when checked with total station

That's neat I want one. Currently I have a set of levels with 3 lines each side of the bubble. Level min fall, max fall. But I don't know how accurate they are.
Or I set the invert of of both ends and then manually set the grade on the laser.
I actually really enjoy drainage but I find most people just want to lay to turn of a bubble and get really stroppy about doing it properly

 

[pettsy]

I calculated the fall over the length of my long spirit level and attached a block of wood cut to size on one end. Just got to keep bubble level then

 

[Furniss]

Pipe level best thing I’ve bought for drainage but now sold out everywhere, has 4 stops 1:40, 1:60, 1:80, 1:100 put it on pipe with arrow with fall boom.

I did a big house 60m drains 16 Ics to get rd 3 sides I was only 5mm out on invert to tank when checked with total station

How do you dig your trench though ? if you dig your trench to grade then an even bedding layer of gravel of say 2cm and only check at end with laser.

 

[diggerjones]

I calculated the fall over the length of my long spirit level and attached a block of wood cut to size on one end. Just got to keep bubble level then

That was my thinking (dragons den moment). Buy clip on blocks to say a 1200mm level, giving you the desired fall. I just do turn of bubble

 

[DaveDCB]

It’s a handy additional tool to have for sure, fool proof way of getting it right everytime.

I always seem to end up working between 2 points so figure the heights / falls out and punch it into the laser and just work to that.

 

[6feetdown]

So simple, what a brilliant idea! Even builders would be able to work that out I reckon!

Beats taping a block to your level

 

[6feetdown]

So simple, what a brilliant idea! Even builders would be able to work that out

Beats taping a block to your level

I Should have read the rest of the comments 1st!

 

[Giles]

How do you dig your trench though ? if you dig your trench to grade then an even bedding layer of gravel of say 2cm and only check at end with laser.

Dig trench by eye on slightly deeper side gravel then lift pipe in gravel to grade if not steep enough then unfortunately it’s shovel if can’t get back in.

have used laser before etc but then ppl get too concerned over mm etc this just works well and fast. Don’t use my pipe laser anymore unless on big run of big pipe

 

[Giles]

Dig trench by eye on slightly deeper side gravel then lift pipe in gravel to grade if not steep enough then unfortunately it’s shovel if can’t get back in.

have used laser before etc but then ppl get too concerned over mm etc this just works well and fast. Don’t use my pipe laser anymore unless on big run of big pipe

Done the block on the level before as well but seen lads have it wrong way Rd lol

Done duel grade etc but takes time etc if going rd building got to move laser etc this just works was only 50 quid can be left on site or in digger thrown in trench does top water as well just by moving it.

I’ll take Pepsi challenge with anyone 2 runs of pipe foul and top into an ic etc be 3x quicker with pipe level vs laser only comparable would be 2 levels with different blocks

 

[Giles]

I calculated the fall over the length of my long spirit level and attached a block of wood cut to size on one end. Just got to keep bubble level then

Same principle as this slide to 1 of 5 set positions then have it level and it’s at that fall

 

[V8Druid]

I calculated the fall over the length of my long spirit level and attached a block of wood cut to size on one end. Just got to keep bubble level then

exactly what I do on a metre level 8mm = 1:80 ... etc.