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10-08-2009, 08:31 AM
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Where you from Stu? You almost sound english. Be the first time i heard anyone from US say Cafe or Pub lol
But talking of brick walls, there's a 4.5 mile long and about 8ft high brick wall that surrounds a manor house down the road from where i used to live in the UK. Would love to know how long that took to build.
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week and a half if stuart did it. 
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10-08-2009, 10:01 AM
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week and a half if stuart did it. |
Dam he's fast
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10-08-2009, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by BCConstruction
But talking of brick walls, there's a 4.5 mile long and about 8ft high brick wall that surrounds a manor house down the road from where i used to live in the UK. Would love to know how long that took to build.
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Was it in the West Country on the way to Longleat Safari Park? I remember that one well, I had to buy ten rolls of braided nylon and splice them together, and a box full of twigs. 
TBH I can't remember counting how many bricks I've laid, at the end of the day I just wanna clean and trowel and go home. I leave that to the foreman to count up and bitch at me for being too slow. On facework when you are building corners up to gauge, setting in the frames, fixing frame cramps and rubbing up to a decent standard I reckon most trowels would average about 600. You could easily double that on the inside work, especially on the 9 inch party walls.
I live in Somerset.
BTW if I was cutting the rubbers for that niche I would still be on it at Christmas, probably the 2010 one.
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10-08-2009, 10:20 PM
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Welcome stuart. Glad to see you made it from the DIY site. I'm sure there are quite a few here who will take interest in how you do things in England. 
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10-08-2009, 11:01 PM
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TBH I can't remember counting how many bricks I've laid, at the end of the day
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TBH we liked you better before TBH.
Welcome to the forum of true "ahem" professionals.
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10-09-2009, 05:30 AM
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Thanks for the welcome guys. I thought I'd cut my teeth on DIY forums giving advice on how much washing liquid to put in the mud before stepping up to the Major League.
how's it goin jomama, I didn't recognise you without the 45. Does it mean the same as mine, the number of bricks you can lay in 10 seconds
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10-29-2009, 08:55 PM
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You guys are funny. 750 bricks in 6 hours on rough in for fireplace, H/O's wife new nothing about how its done so i said it will look great after we paint it don't you think? Her reaction was priceless.
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11-04-2009, 06:08 PM
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I put in my personal best today. 1000 in 3.5 hours. Straight run.
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11-04-2009, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BCConstruction
Where you from Stu? You almost sound english. Be the first time i heard anyone from US say Cafe or Pub lol
But talking of brick walls, there's a 4.5 mile long and about 8ft high brick wall that surrounds a manor house down the road from where i used to live in the UK. Would love to know how long that took to build.
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2 days at Stu's rate! 
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11-04-2009, 06:18 PM
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I put in my personal best today. 1000 in 3.5 hours. Straight run.
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4 and half to 5 brick a minute. That is really moving. Was it all struck and polished?
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11-04-2009, 06:20 PM
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We are going to need pic's to verify the accuracy of you claim.
That's dropping them in pretty good for a cheese head.
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11-04-2009, 06:48 PM
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Ha dakzaag!!
I'll get some pics tomorrow. It was the side of a garage.
And no, the majority of it was not struck. We did that after lunch. It took another half hour.
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11-06-2009, 09:07 PM
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Alright, heres the pictures.
I did the right half of the wall. It was 960 brick in 3.5 hours. I did have some help for a little bit of it with mud spreading, but most of it I did myself.
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11-06-2009, 10:03 PM
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Nice work, what brick is that? Looks like Hansen Royal Oak, queen size maybe?
Put a window in that jail cell will ya.
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The maintenance schedule for brick
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11-06-2009, 10:27 PM
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Propheshunal
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Originally Posted by 6stringmason
Alright, heres the pictures.
I did the right half of the wall. It was 960 brick in 3.5 hours. I did have some help for a little bit of it with mud spreading, but most of it I did myself.
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I hate to be critical but all those lines run to one point....how can that be level?
Good work man....even brett favre couldn't do that.
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11-07-2009, 12:48 PM
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LOL! A gnats hair.
It is a queen size, not sure of the name though. I didnt order the materials and it wasnt my job. I was just helping a guy out. Its not the prettiest work I've done, but I would say its sellable and we really slammed 'em in.
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