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12th January 2007, 07:33 PM #1
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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.
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12th January 2007, 07:43 PM #2
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Good old stretcher bond eh?
Nobody seems to do any of the fancier bonds nowadays.
Looks good btw.
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12th January 2007, 07:43 PM #3
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ENOUGH of your chest-beating!!
Get up here, I've a job for you.... NOW!!
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12th January 2007, 07:49 PM #4
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Yeah, that's good Al, but can you brick up a letter box?
I wanted to become a brickie but my old man said "No son, learn a trade."
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12th January 2007, 07:50 PM #5
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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.
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12th January 2007, 07:53 PM #6
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Funny you should say that, hmmm very peculiar in fact.
Originally Posted by duckman
Yeah, that's good Al, but can you brick up a letter box?
Stay tuned for further news.
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12th January 2007, 08:42 PM #7
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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.
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12th January 2007, 08:45 PM #8
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Obviously they had the teamwork down to a fine art. Originally Posted by Rossluck
I worked for a mob years ago and we would start and finish a single story house in a day.
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12th January 2007, 08:56 PM #9
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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. 
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12th January 2007, 09:13 PM #10
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Al, you need to post a pic of a normal wall so the unenlightened amongsed us can tell the difference
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12th January 2007, 09:16 PM #11
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Originally Posted by 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
wots brickwork??? is it like lego???
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12th January 2007, 10:10 PM #12
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13th January 2007, 01:34 PM #13
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Thank God For Plasterers!
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13th January 2007, 04:35 PM #14
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To hide your woodwork Stoppers? Originally Posted by Christopha
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13th January 2007, 04:50 PM #15
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Nice clean work Al, ever thought of moving to Sydney? Your talents are wasted down there.
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