Queens Fish Bar 6:15 Sat Sep 22
Polished concrete floor
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Looking at this for the ground floor of my gaff.
Not had this done before, so looking for WHOer's input please.
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Queens Fish Bar
1:06 Tue Sep 25
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busheyhammer85 12:23 Sun Sep 23
cheers
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Westham67
4:50 Mon Sep 24
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When I was doing Ground Work I stayed in a caravan , some massive Welsh bloke and a jock the place smelt of beer an farts
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Westham67
4:47 Mon Sep 24
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I worked at Sizewell B we were cleaning the pipes Hydro lazing as they called it. fucking shithole town proper inbred hillbillies
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jfk
4:25 Mon Sep 24
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I've had dozens of desperate days on site.
One that stands out more than most was setting out groundbeams at Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffolk had a wind chill factor of minus twelve my Mrs had just given birth and couldn't get home,ended up tying to kip in big caravan type affair with a few pissed up Geordies who's idea of dinner was cold tinned mushroom soup.
It was fucking grim.
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jfk
4:22 Mon Sep 24
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I've had dozens of desperate days on site.
One that stands out more than most was setting out groundbeams at Sizewell nuclear power plant in Suffolk had a wind chill factor of minus twelve my Mrs had just given birth and couldn't get home,ended up tying to kip in big caravan type affair with a few pissed up Geordies who's idea of dinner was cold tinned mushroom soup.
It was fucking grim.
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jfk
3:51 Mon Sep 24
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67,haha not all glamour is it?As by the sounds of it you know only too well.
All the best mate.I"m off tomorrow taking my eldest to get enrolled in a QS degree course. He must be fucking mad.
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joe blob
3:50 Mon Sep 24
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Put newspaper on the floor. Doesn't look good but easily replaced and you can have a read when you have a break while laying it. You could as an alternative put sawdust on the bare boards, giving you a retro look.
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Westham67
3:38 Mon Sep 24
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I never had a trade I did Ground Work building Tarmac plants at 16 stock bay wall , basses and knocking over the top of piles with a jackhammer.
I remember sitting on a dumper next to the Thames freezing my nut as it was snowing
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jfk
3:30 Mon Sep 24
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67.no mate never really got involved with external work.
The hardest thing in what I do is getting paid on time(cash flow) it's a ficking nightmare.
Incidently I too was born in 67 had enough of yrhe building game now.
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Westham67
3:21 Mon Sep 24
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Just to see if you had done them before not a test just an inquiry
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jfk
3:17 Mon Sep 24
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67,you strike me as a decent skin but don't understand your relevance with cobble stones and polished concrete floors(I'd imigine the op is talking about internal work.
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Westham67
2:50 Mon Sep 24
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jfk ,Not taking the piss have you done cobble stones?
My brother had his own business and I worked for him we were replacing what the gas board removed while fitting new pipes and out side meters etc, on price work
Cobble stones were 60 quid a Metre and that was in 1992 not easy though every one is individual , set down on lean mix and bedded with a vibrating plate and then wet pointed
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jfk
2:33 Mon Sep 24
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I'm a subcontractor specialising in concrete frames.Organising power floated finished slabs is hard enough to get spot on. Polished concrete floors is not something I'd go near.
My advice would be spend time looking into proven specialists and be prepared to spend plenty to avoid a disaster.
Good luck.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
2:00 Mon Sep 24
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gph 1:54 Mon Sep 24
'I staple bubble wrap to the floor.'
Insulating and bursting the bubbles will be a good replacement game for when you finally master Pop-Up Pets.
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Westham67
1:58 Mon Sep 24
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Cheaper than carpet slippers
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gph
1:54 Mon Sep 24
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I staple bubble wrap to the floor.
Not pretty, but cheap and very comfortable.
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fraser
1:13 Sun Sep 23
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See a lot of this in Oz, looks fantastic when done properly. Seen more that aren't than are though.
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busheyhammer85
12:23 Sun Sep 23
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Powerfloating and Polished Concrete not the same thing.
Powerfloating can be achieved by most decent concrete companies.
Polished Concrete is a specialist trade and extremely expensive. Very popular at the moment.
Try E J Lazanby Ltd. They’re doing some for me.
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Westham67
12:00 Sun Sep 23
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What about a vibrating wacker plate or a trench wacker
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MonkeyVulgaris
11:52 Sun Sep 23
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How about a Czech floor using carpet tiles?
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Westham67
9:54 Sun Sep 23
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Speak to Hammer and Pickle he lives in Poland so he must know some Polish people
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