Wip

[ozwinner]

What a thing of great beauty to see and behold some great brickwork is.
Straight off the trowel, no jiggery pokery, its as you see it freshly laid.

Al :D

[craigb]

Good old stretcher bond eh?

Nobody seems to do any of the fancier bonds nowadays.

Looks good btw.

[MajorPanic]

ENOUGH of your chest-beating!!

Get up here, I've a job for you.... NOW!! :roll:

[duckman]

Yeah, that's good Al, but can you brick up a letter box?:p

[ozwinner]

No fancy bonds any more, I sometimes wish there were as I like to lay the fancier bonds, but this house has an arch albeit rendered.

Al :U

[ozwinner]

Yeah, that's good Al, but can you brick up a letter box?:p

Funny you should say that, hmmm very peculiar in fact.:?

Stay tuned for further news.

Al :U

[Rossluck]

I was watching a team of brickies working up here a few months ago. A wall appeared in front of me in about ten minutes. They had a team of about 8 brickies and about four labourers (I say "about" because you couldn't count them because they were running around like ants).

Two of the brickies were just trowelling the mud on, and the others were laying the bricks. They'd go around a corner and continue elsewhere, and then someone would come back to quickly clean up the wall.

I've never seen anything like it.

[ozwinner]

I was watching a team of brickies working up here a few months ago. A wall appeared in front of me in about ten minutes. They had a team of about 8 brickies and about four labourers (I say "about" because you couldn't count them because they were running around like ants).

Two of the brickies were just trowelling the mud on, and the others were laying the bricks. They'd go around a corner and continue elsewhere, and then someone would come back to quickly clean up the wall.

I've never seen anything like it.

Obviously they had the teamwork down to a fine art.
I worked for a mob years ago and we would start and finish a single story house in a day. :p

Al :)

[Driver]

Good one, Al. :) Few things in life are as satisfying as looking at the results of your own work - especially when it's done well. :2tsup:

[Lignum]

Al, you need to post a pic of a normal wall so the unenlightened amongsed us can tell the difference:)

[womble]

What a thing of great beauty to see and behold some great brickwork is.
Straight off the trowel, no jiggery pokery, its as you see it freshly laid.

Al :D


wots brickwork??? :? is it like lego??? :D

[Wongo]

Clever Al, very clever.

[Christopha]

Thank God For Plasterers!

[ozwinner]

Thank God For Plasterers!

To hide your woodwork Stoppers?:laughing1:

Al :hapy:

[Bleedin Thumb]

Nice clean work Al, ever thought of moving to Sydney? Your talents are wasted down there.

[ozwinner]

Nice clean work Al, ever thought of moving to Sydney? Your talents are wasted down there.


Nah, never given it a thought..

Al :)

[Wongo]

I still think brick work is something I can never do. It is too hard to get them level and straight.

Don’t get too excited Al. I am not saying that you are cleverer then I am cos you are not.:D

[ozwinner]

I still think brick work is something I can never do. It is too hard to get them level and straight.

Don’t get too excited Al. I am not saying that you are cleverer then I am cos you are not.:D


Everybody has their own calling in life, mine is to build stuff for all eternity to see..

I have left a calling card on the planet...........Al was here..........:2tsup:

Al :U

[Groggy]

Everybody has their own calling in life, mine is to build stuff for all eternity to see..

I have left a calling card on the planet...........Al was here..........You should be called Ozymandias, not Ozwinner....

[scooter]

Could give the Mardi Gras a shot if you went north, Al, can see the Foil Float now... :p

[craigb]

You should be called Ozymandias, not Ozwinner....

Now that's the deepest post I've seen around here for a long time.

Well done you. :)

[Groggy]

Now that's the deepest post I've seen around here for a long time.

Well done you. :)Oops, busted. Shelley fan?

[echnidna]

There is an almost uncanny resemblance on the official ozymandias website

http://www.ozymandias.ch

[pawnhead]

Everybody has their own calling in life, mine is to build stuff for all eternity to see..

I have left a calling card on the planet...........Al was here..........:2tsup:

Al :UNot much demand for it nowadays, but can you build a fireplace that draws properly?
The definitive test of an experienced brickie from what I've heard.

[ozwinner]

Not much demand for it nowadays, but can you build a fireplace that draws properly?
The definitive test of an experienced brickie from what I've heard.

Easy..

Al :2tsup:

[Groggy]

Ozymandias is a poem by Shelley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias).

[echnidna]

Ozymandias is a poem by Shelley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias).

That explains Al's poeitic abilities :oo:

[ozwinner]

Just a follow on, the job was finished today at lunch time, it took longer than expected due to weather conditions. :doh:

Al :)

[Lignum]

Great to see an example of a trade at its best :2tsup:

[dadpad]

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"




nice oz, when ya gonna clean up.

[ozwinner]

nice oz, when ya gonna clean up.

I get paid to layem, not clean up.

Al :U

[pawnhead]

It would have looked nicer without that pig in the wall Al. Did someone steal your level? ;)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y266/holgerdanske/th_Untitled-Duplicated-01.jpg (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y266/holgerdanske/Untitled-Duplicated-01.jpg)

[ozwinner]

Its not a pig, its a lamb for Oz Day..

Al :q