The 'Today's Job' thread

[hiluxman]

I always found the cat machines would lock up and skid like they were on ice! Never really had that problem on the 3cx..

Yes, one other hill here you'd not dare touch the brakes going down...the only hill I'd had them lock up. Needless to say foot was straight off the pedal and just go with it.

 

[DaveDCB]

Yes, one other hill here you'd not dare touch the brakes going down...the only hill I'd had them lock up. Needless to say foot was straight off the pedal and just go with it.

I did afew weeks in Sheffield on the footpath job out of the Agg industries plant at tinsley, was a big steep hill back down to the plant, under a railway bridge… that was steep!!

 

[hiluxman]

I did afew weeks in Sheffield on the footpath job out of the Agg industries plant at tinsley, was a big steep hill back down to the plant, under a railway bridge… that was steep!!

Around 2014?

 

[DaveDCB]

Around 2014?

Sounds about right. All I know is I couldn’t be bothered with driving up and down the m1 everyday so pulled out of the job.. could have sat on it for years if I wanted!

 

[hiluxman]

Sounds about right. All I know is I couldn’t be bothered with driving up and down the m1 everyday so pulled out of the job.. could have sat on it for years if I wanted!

Yeah, I was on at the same time. Had a bloody good run out of them.

Boring work but you wasn't stressed and my parking spot of the time was only 10mins from home.

 

[6feetdown]

I did afew weeks in Sheffield on the footpath job out of the Agg industries plant at tinsley, was a big steep hill back down to the plant, under a railway bridge… that was steep!!

Agg industries i think 6 to 7% increase again Jan 1st from Keyline

 

[DaveDCB]

Yeah, I was on at the same time. Had a bloody good run out of them.

Boring work but you wasn't stressed and my parking spot of the time was only 10mins from home.

I was on with balls, think there was 5 of us on 3cx’s at same time.. I was doing 8 x 8w loads of footpath away in the day , wasn’t a steady days work that’s for sure!

 

[hiluxman]

I was on with balls, think there was 5 of us on 3cx’s at same time.. I was doing 8 x 8w loads of footpath away in the day , wasn’t a steady days work that’s for sure!

I was doing 5 or 6 drop crossing replacements a day. Had it off to a t, break out in the morning and load the afternoon. They first did each individually and I wasn't impressed at putting the breaker on 5 or 6 times.

One of jcballs lad was kicked off because of the damage he did loading 8 leggers...apparently he wasn't used to front bucket work.

 

[DaveDCB]

That wasn’t me

 

[DaveDCB]

Finally getting brickwork back up to wallplate after having to take some portions of it down to foundations and rebuild back up! One end of the barn to another was 100mm out(60mm low one end 40mm high another)!! So again more taken down and rebuild so we could pull one end up and push another down.. got it within 12mm over 21meters which isn’t the end of the world! Straightened it up on the last 3 courses to help with the roof, won’t be noticeable once guttering it on. Otherside to do next week and rake the gables up for steelwork hopefully by the end of next week

 

[pettsy]

Making a start inside our place on the original house part as the builder has finished the extension shell. It’ll all be fully replumbed/wired etc so figured I might as well do underfloor heating. Two loads of concrete subfloor out on the IW to a local contact who’s making a new yard, and about 6t of stone taken out!

 

[V8Druid]

Making a start inside our place on the original house part as the builder has finished the extension shell. It’ll all be fully replumbed/wired etc so figured I might as well do underfloor heating. Two loads of concrete subfloor out on the IW to a local contact who’s making a new yard, and about 6t of stone taken out!

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has yer missus seen what you've done to the living room yet

 

[pettsy]

has yer missus seen what you've done to the living room yet

Told her it all had to come up, don’t think she believe me until I was tracking the digger over sleepers to get it in the room

 

[Jimbo69]

I take it you’re keeping the curtains then

 

[pettsy]

I take it you’re keeping the curtains then

Look good with a bit of concrete splashed on em’

 

[Storrsy]

Making a start inside our place on the original house part as the builder has finished the extension shell. It’ll all be fully replumbed/wired etc so figured I might as well do underfloor heating. Two loads of concrete subfloor out on the IW to a local contact who’s making a new yard, and about 6t of stone taken out!

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Out of interest would electric UFH heating not be an option? Would have thought far less disturbance to have it installed. We had ours in the bathroom 10 years ago and it's been really good- was a bit dubious about it at first but most seemed to go for proper plumbed UFH so wondered why?

 

[Lancs Lad]

Out of interest would electric UFH heating not be an option? Would have thought far less disturbance to have it installed. We had ours in the bathroom 10 years ago and it's been really good- was a bit dubious about it at first but most seemed to go for proper plumbed UFH so wondered why?

Running cost in a nutshell. If you've got central heating albeit simplistically you swap 1 or two rads for a whole floor and you can run at a lower temp etc..
We've got both and the electric ain't cheap to run

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Out of interest would electric UFH heating not be an option? Would have thought far less disturbance to have it installed. We had ours in the bathroom 10 years ago and it's been really good- was a bit dubious about it at first but most seemed to go for proper plumbed UFH so wondered why?

Kero at 6p per unit and Electric at 24p.
Wet underfloor wins every time.
Most bathroom floors with electric are just for warming the tiles, not heating the whole room.
Also digging out enables the correct level of insulation to be installed.

 

[Storrsy]

Running cost in a nutshell. If you've got central heating albeit simplistically you swap 1 or two rads for a whole floor and you can run at a lower temp etc..
We've got both and the electric ain't cheap to run

Interesting. doing away with a rad is big bonus in itself if space is tight. So assumedly if you have the rad in the room you just run the UFH off the same pipework that would have supplied the rad?

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Interesting. doing away with a rad is big bonus in itself if space is tight. So assumedly if you have the rad in the room you just run the UFH off the same pipework that would have supplied the rad?

You can do that.. as room pack, but it’s inferior to a correctly zoned UFH install.
UFH saves about 15% of space in a house due to rads not restricting room design layouts. Enables lower temp systems which favour condensing boilers and heat pumps.