Grand designs - selecting the correct sized brush for the job

Anyone else wonder why that chap kept using a tiny little brush to paint/varnish large areas?

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Grunff
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aye, bigger brush would have been better

some food would have speeded the job up a bit, too

RT

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R Taylor

In message , Grunff writes

No, but I did wonder about fixing things to the walls......

Quite liked the house though

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chris French

In message , R Taylor writes

I did notice that he looked very haggard getting towards the end of the build compared to afterwards in the final interview.

Reply to
chris French

Typical French job creation scheme.

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G&M

I actually had a guy working for me on a renovation living on vegetables to save money and he too showed such a marked decline that I ended up screaming at him that "You can't do heavy building work on an office girl's diet." A few trips to the kebab house and he improved considerably.

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G&M

In message , G&M writes

Then he needed to learn how to eat properly.

I don't think it has got anything to do with him being veggie (, I suspect he was just stressed by the whole thing buy then.

Reply to
chris French

By the look of him, that was all he could lift.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

I would second that - I'm veggie, but I don't think anyone would describe me as a gaunt weakling...

Reply to
Grunff

Bristol-based timber framer by any chance ? 8-)

Reply to
Andy Dingley

Same here...

Gordon

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Gordon Henderson

I was wondering about that too...

...and another thing, I couldn't help noticing the external render seemed to be applied directly to the straw (OK, through that mesh stuff). Is that not asking for problems with damp etc.?

Andy

Reply to
Pecanfan

I'd have thought that rain hitting the walls would soak through the render, making the straw damp which'd eventually rot?

sPoNiX

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sPoNiX

"chris French" wrote | >I actually had a guy working for me on a renovation living on | >vegetables to save money and he too showed such a marked decline | Then he needed to learn how to eat properly. | I don't think it has got anything to do with him being veggie (, I | suspect he was just stressed by the whole thing buy then.

If he wasn't a 'proper' vegetarian and was just eating cheaply his diet was probably severely deficient in lots of things (like protein).

Owain

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Owain

In message , sPoNiX writes

I thought they had a waterproof membrane of some sort (looked like blue polythene sheet on the outside?

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chris French

In message , chris French writes

They have a website, this picture looks like it is what they might have done:

Also on the CH4 website :

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chris French

=lIke a thatched roof? Good for 50 years, except he bit under the cement render round the chimney, which does about 300..:-)

The render is realtively waterproof. In heavy rain it won';t lety more than moistness through, but over time breathes enough to keep the straw dry.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Does anybody know if that lime render spraying machine is hireable in the UK ? I know you can get plaster sprayers but lime render is so much heavier and abrasive I wouldn't have thought they were suitable.

Reply to
G&M

Yep. A good dose of meat protein fixed him up well.

Actually I'm surprised they got on well with the natives there. A friend whose wife was vegetarian got so ostracised by the local community in Provence that they sold their holiday home there.

Reply to
G&M

No - Greek. Bloody good worker too whilst he was healthy. But eventually decided to go back home as he couldn't face another UK winter :-(

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G&M

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