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#1 ·
Ok , so I started out with the Marshalltown dura soft hated them it makes my hand hurt , i used a plastic handle M-Town it was a lot better but a couple months ago i bought my first Rose ( love it ) with a leather handle . The leather feels kind of weird and looks like it is dry , How do you guys maintain your leather handles ? Also would you recommend a plastic handle Rose Trowel ?

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- my leather rose brand new

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- a plastic handle rose that caught my eye ( feels good too)
 
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#78 · (Edited)
No, "thanks for beautiful craftmanship, now please leave the area before the curfew,"

In my town, you can buy 1890s 25'x 100' or120' main street 2 and 3 story business/apartments for 100K$ or less, but they don't have any parking < 20.00$ per sq. ft.
most have full basements.

Why aren't you building your own home where land is cheap? Too many regs?
 
#80 ·
Land you can build on isn't cheap here. Some developers buy cheap land without building permission and bribe the Council Officials to grant them it.
Where I live the farmers used to build houses for their kids on their land without permission, but once you can prove you have lived in it for 4 years, they can't make you knock it down.
 
#82 · (Edited)
If I can get 2 or 3 masons to quit banging away unnecessarily, I'm a happy :censored:hole, and they'll go home every week with more $ and less hurt for the rest of their now longer careers...

Hate me all day, o-kay, hating knowledge is limiting you and your families future.:mad:, the more a fact conflicts with your current world view, the more important it is to find out if is true, and if you need to act.

I spent years and thousands of $ learning what I know, You don't want my facts and opinions, quit reading when you see my handle.
Someone says the sun rises in the West, I'll speak up...

I'm here to learn what I don't know, stuff my competition and contractors won't share out of selfishness, I share because no one here is my direct competion, it won't cost me a job, or cut my margins to exchange "secrets" with someone 500 miles away.
Sometimes even nail benders can teach me something. Not very often though... Why are aholes hated? life would be pretty nasty without them.
 
#83 ·
I change the way I lay brick depending on the brick, the weather, are the bricks wet, is the mud sandy ect.

A waterstruck brick you shouldnt be tapping regardless.

Different situations calls for different techniques.

But when all you do is slam to a line all day like a robot, then yeah the palm wiggle is better.

Try that doing tedious arch work.

Everything has its place, and being an old bastid you should know that :)
 
#86 ·
My customers pay me for what I already know, not what I'll learn on their building... I'll use that in the future.

Would you hire a Doctor that was learning while working on you?:confused1:

When you finish school, what do you want to do NJ?
 
#90 ·
Just a small joke, relax a little. :thumbsup:

But to answer your question, do you honestly think that the first day you walked on to a job site you knew everything you needed to know? You have learned on customers projects your whole life. What about new products? Do you refuse to use them so you are not learning on a customers building? Any trade is a life long learning experience.

I recently had surgery at a teaching hospital. So I guess I would :laughing::laughing:

When I finish "school" I will either be retired or dead.
 
#93 · (Edited)
NJ Brickie, I'm just jealous you're getting paid to "go to School".

I'd use your Doc AFTER shes practised on you...:blink:

Stuart45, 1. Nice job, but the indoor pool makes it into a HVAC nightmare, the General C/ PM will cheap out stainless, epoxy rebar etc... rust than crack city, may be a chlorine free pool ? UV light and salt water?

London is supposed have invented Party wall underpinning law (suits).... I hope this guy already bought the adjacent houses.
It'd probably be cheaper to move/ demo the old house if the city permits would allow it.
Crazy laws lead to crazy buildings, When will Brits revolt?

I've built a couple tiny gun bunkers, or various kinds of low profile vaults, most not on the prints. I never guarantee that they stay dry.
 
#95 ·
I liked the poor guy that had to pay a 825,000 pound "fee" ex post facto for his little tween houses tunnel.

The local land grant university town has been captured by Eco-socialists on the city council and in the building permit office, Permits are 4% of value and up, 700 pages zoning regs.....for 50,000 people living in the middle of a giant corn field.....Not a single city inspector was laid off when the building trades collapsed to 40% of peak, they just doubled remodeling permit costs. Big City, Little town, same parasites
 
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