Sorting out someone else’s mess

[Stavross 15,622]

A lad me and my mate do a lot of academy school work for asked us to have a look at his back garden that other so called landscapers had had a go at, he said they give up when they couldn’t sort the drainage problem by digging down, no idea why they didn’t put land drain in and come up, that’s what we did

[Stavross 15,622]

Not to bad for someone who spent 25 years as a HGV mechanic and fancied a change 

[Stavross 15,622]

11 grand of fake grass to finish it off, it’s the biggest area I’ve done, it will be finished tomorrow, all this for his kids to kick a football around on

[Stavross 15,622]

Fake grass all down, glued and screwed, brush up and sand in the morning as long as it’s not raining, turns out the bloke doesn’t like it, he wanted more of a playing surface ( well he should of got the Astro turf people in ) but his wife loves it and says it’s not just about the little boy, it’s ideal for the little girl to play on as well and as we know the only opinion that matters in a house is the wife’s 

[breeze 1,307]

Nice job that mate  

[Stavross 15,622]

Job finished, sanded and brushed ( by hand 10m by 30m ) the bloke doesn’t like it, I think he was expecting a five a side football pitch, not fake grass, his missus and the kids love it so seen as that’s all that counts fu*k him, I think it looks really good 

[ollieollie 766]

Looking good mate

[ollieollie 766]

I’m a brickie, 20 yrs in and looking for a change. Fair play for making the jump 

[Stavross 15,622]

52 minutes ago, ollieollie said:

I’m a brickie, 20 yrs in and looking for a change. Fair play for making the jump 

I was more pushed than jumped, I was a HGV mechanic for 25 years and always worked 4 on 4 off so worked with my mate doing all sorts of groundwork on my days off ( drainage, foundations, patios, horse arena’s, anything outside) when the virus came they furloughed everyone apart from 4 of us and put us 4 on 5 days a week and knocked 10 hours pay off us, the buggers at home were being paid more than me, so I told the gaffer to fu*k off and started doing this full time, it’s been a bit up and down but I’m lucky, my missus is an accountant and has a really good job, my old gaffer has rang me 4 times since I rapped in in April 2020 asking if I’ll go back, so it’s nice to know I’ve got something to fall back on

[ollieollie 766]

3 hours ago, Stavross said:

I was more pushed than jumped, I was a HGV mechanic for 25 years and always worked 4 on 4 off so worked with my mate doing all sorts of groundwork on my days off ( drainage, foundations, patios, horse arena’s, anything outside) when the virus came they furloughed everyone apart from 4 of us and put us 4 on 5 days a week and knocked 10 hours pay off us, the buggers at home were being paid more than me, so I told the gaffer to fu*k off and started doing this full time, it’s been a bit up and down but I’m lucky, my missus is an accountant and has a really good job, my old gaffer has rang me 4 times since I rapped in in April 2020 asking if I’ll go back, so it’s nice to know I’ve got something to fall back on

Coincidently becoming a mechanic is(was) on the list. Im quite handy with motors so am considering doing evening classes at the local college in mechanics. Is it worth a go?

[Stavross 15,622]

7 hours ago, ollieollie said:

Coincidently becoming a mechanic is(was) on the list. Im quite handy with motors so am considering doing evening classes at the local college in mechanics. Is it worth a go?

I used to moan about it every day but I guess that’s because I did it for so long, my last job was 7 years at IVECO I was paid more than anyone else in the garage because all they could get was car mechanics and needed someone who knew about trucks, before that I was gaffer at a tanker/road haulage company where I specialised in chemical tankers ( that was a good job, before they were bought out) if you are thinking about it, I’d look at the HGV side, it pays a lot better than a car mechanic, a few of my mates still do it and they are all on 40+ a year and cars are to small, you can’t hit them hard enough with a big hammer

[Stavross 15,622]

3 hours ago, baker boy said:

How much did that little lot cost

Around 30 grand, there’s about 15 grand in the grass and the cushion matting, then there’s 120 tonne of type 1 stone, all the drainage gear, about 3 1/2 grand in the sleeper wall and fence, then there’s all the other bits, 40 bags of postcrete, half a tonne of paving sand, decking screws at 50 quid a box etc, it soon adds up 

[Daniel cain 45,420]

Nice job that stavfolks are spending a hell of a lot these days on the gardens...

[FLATTOP 4,455]

How often does that grass need cutting lovely tidy job mate

[Stavross 15,622]

17 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

Nice job that stavfolks are spending a hell of a lot these days on the gardens...

Cheers mate, since the virus came and people were stuck at home the type of work we were doing changed a lot and money that would be spent on holidays is now been spent on gardens, the amount of India sandstone I’ve put down in the last 12 months is nuts, I’ll be glad to start a ground source heat pump job tomorrow, back to what I’m good at, digging holes