The 'Today's Job' thread

[Lancs Lad]

18c and spitting this morning at 7
Not actually complaining tbh but looks like a muggy one.

 

[V8Druid]

18c and spitting this morning at 7
Not actually complaining tbh but looks like a muggy one.

17C at 04.00 am - not a cloud in the sky - good cover of mist in the valley and car covered in HEAVY dew - 27C currently -- God knows what it's like in any of me boxes and in no hurry to find out

 

[groundworker]

30 deg here, feels like 35.

We are breaking up a patio by hand and carrying it through a terraced house to the truck.

Not sure new labourer will survive the day.

 

[Giles]

im sat in the shade dewalt fan on doing paper work, laborer in shade doing some jobs, we need to insulate roof but silver backed pir on silver alutrix vapor barrier on hottest day of year no thanks lol says its 28 currently

 

[Lancs Lad]

Picked up toabout 25c but muggy.
BBC at it again you'd think end of world was nigh. Noone ever been to Southern Italy in a heatwave before ? Was 48c on my car and the lads still out grafting on the roads.

 

[Giles]

Picked up toabout 25c but muggy.
BBC at it again you'd think end of world was nigh. Noone ever been to Southern Italy in a heatwave before ? Was 48c on my car and the lads still out grafting on the roads.

or our soldiers in Afghanistan regularly 50c for those lads out on patrol

 

[Furniss]

Hot here !

Fecking about in the commune - can't travel in the field in winter so managed to rough (as buggery) a ditch out in the driest going it's ever going to be, he wanted it a bit meandering round some old stumps - which saves me having to concentrate

 

[DaveDCB]

Was in corfu last week, every day it was 35, deffo feels hotter in the UK at them temps, our buildings aren’t made for it.. bricks soak up the heat and stay hot for days afterwards, over there as soon as the sun set everything was cool to the touch etc, aircon is setup and working etc.
glad I put aircon in our house when building it, best thing I’ve ever done, being a barn conversion upstairs is basically in the roof so it gets hot v quickly!!

 

[DaveDCB]

And todays job…

Finally started to tackle this drain, it takes all the ground water from the farmyard and houses etc about 3 acres of area and about 100 acre of land around it..
last fella was a real bodge!
I’ve had to shift over 2500ton of soil bund(which was surrounding the manhole and pipe run) to get down to it and work on fixing it up, manhole ripped out today and new base/pipe ordered to start piping it up tomorrow, will trace back about 25m of pipe which I know is knackard toward holding pond once MH is set.. hopefully that will be enough!

Thankfully the rings and lid are in good condition so can reuse them

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[DaveDCB]

 

[V8Druid]

or our soldiers in Afghanistan regularly 50c for those lads out on patrol

got up to 32C about four o'clock - in the shade - been some bit warm -
as said - we just aren't used to it and it's always in with a bang and gone again - no time to acclimatise plus always 'muggy' - not a dry heat

Picked up toabout 25c but muggy.
BBC at it again you'd think end of world was nigh. Noone ever been to Southern Italy in a heatwave before ? Was 48c on my car and the lads still out grafting on the roads.

 

[pettsy]

Dashboard said 29.5 when I sat and had some dinner with the air con on. Have considered having aircon in the bedrooms of new extension we’re about to start building but know nothing about it tbh!

 

[Lancs Lad]

Dashboard said 29.5 when I sat and had some dinner with the air con on. Have considered having aircon in the bedrooms of new extension we’re about to start building but know nothing about it tbh!

Incidentally just having another mitsi 2/2.5kw unit fitted at work. All in (I've just gotta sort 10a supply) was £2.2k plus vat.
If I was doing a new build I'd deffo install some in bedrooms etc.

Wife likes it hot though.🫣 She'd have 30c outside all year!

 

[Smiffy]

Sat watching the Americans practice spying.
It's taken off and landed 4 times now.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Sat watching the Americans practice spying.
It's taken off and landed 4 times now.

Where from ?

 

[Smiffy]

Where from ?

RAF fairford.
That my in-laws house is on end of the runway. The red runway beacon is in there garden. The plane has done 10 takeoffs in the last hour.

 

[Lancs Lad]

RAF fairford.
That my in-laws house is on end of the runway. The red runway beacon is in there garden. The plane has done 10 takeoffs in the last hour.

Blummin heck do they rent out for the tattoo?

 

[Smiffy]

Blummin heck do they rent out for the tattoo?

Theyve been offered 2k for the tattoo week, but turn it down.
I usually nab the residents tickets off them.
I keep offering to top the trees off so they can see the runway but get told no.

 

[Giles]

Incidentally just having another mitsi 2/2.5kw unit fitted at work. All in (I've just gotta sort 10a supply) was £2.2k plus vat.
If I was doing a new build I'd deffo install some in bedrooms etc.

Wife likes it hot though.🫣 She'd have 30c outside all year!

putting it in garden room and kitchen extension, think ill also bang one in dormer conversion as well for the cost of it while doing all the other work makes sense to sleep in piece and comfort.

im still walking rd with 18v dewalt fan on following me rd lol

 

[V8Druid]

putting it in garden room and kitchen extension, think ill also bang one in dormer conversion as well for the cost of it while doing all the other work makes sense to sleep in piece and comfort.

im still walking rd with 18v dewalt fan on following me rd lol

still got two 12" going, circulating the air in the house - doors wide open and the windows - proper glass thermometer outside on the wall says 23C and the c/heating thermo says 22.8C .. gonna be a warm night