Latest project started Monday to keep me busy

[solarman216]

Hi all, well Monday saw the start of my new project, have been given 8 weeks to fully re furbish and fit out a 200 seat restaurant, as project manager I still cannot keep my hands off the tools, the question is am I boring you? if you would like start to finish pics then let me know and I will post them as work progresses, Rick

[jims-terrano]

Where's the bloody photos and get on with it:thumbs

[terranosaurusdoug]

Get 'em posted up Rick, I'm certainly interested and there will be others, it's the sort of thing that goes down well on this forum:thumb2

[zippy656]

Come on! This thread needs pics!!!!!!

[terranosaurusdoug]

Come on! This thread needs pics!!!!!!

:lol:thumbs

[Jay666d]

Love a Project!

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[johnb5177]

Stop teasing, and get on with it......the obligatory piccies will be anticipated eagerly.......:thumb2.

[solarman216]

OK OK will post some tomorrow, all in now, Rick

[rustic]

OK OK will post some tomorrow, all in now, Rick

Well Rick, now I have met you, I feel as a close friend and buddy, I can say, like the others, just get on with it. lol.
Non of your projects have ever been boring.
I admire your enthusiasm strength and resourcefulness.

I, like others are looking forward to the before and after pics, but also those in between. Especially those that give you a challenge.

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Uncle Rustic

[Banshee]

Come on Rick you pillock!!!! What a silly question :lol :lol :lol

OF COURSE WE WANT PICS!!!!

I was pretty impressed with the last lot, was a smart transformation :thumb2

[macabethiel]

Not only have the pictures in the past been interesting but they also have given me insights about how things are done and ideas for when I doing some DIY !

[solarman216]

Shop gutted

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New waste going in for new Bar

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New waste for old wash area and new kitchen, the inspection cover on the left was concreted over, but I found it

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Looking from room to new kitchen

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Wash room as is but will be re-organised with floor levelled up and new welded floor covering

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New covers to replace old ill fitting, these are filled with reinforced concrete and finished with the same floor covering

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and another

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cover that was concreted before

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To be new Kitchen

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Back part of wash room with walk in fridge, opening to the rear left is a walk in freezer

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Freezer, this is coming out and new gents WC in its place with wall accross this opening

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Disabled WC, to the left is the back wall of the walk in freezer, a new door will be made here

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Bits for lecy to sort, nor too bad this time

[solarman216]

sorry this is crank your head job

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Old canopy and ducts to go

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Some old kit some new, till it is sorted this will be a storage area for now, to have a raised seating area with fancy railings around, several curves involved I am told

[solarman216]

Old fryer got to be out Fri/Mon ANY OFFERS CHEAP

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All the old floor boards to be over laid with 18mm ply all 25 8 * 4 sheets of it, hope to start that on Monday then we can start fabricating the bar, but that fryer has to go, well that is all for today, Rick

[zippy656]

Looking good Rick!!

[solarman216]

Spent the whole day dismantling that fryer, went off for the trailer and it pissed down, so forgot the idea today, and even if I wanted and I dont, could not do it tomorrow as road is shut Sat and Sun due to French market, so Monday will be a busy day, Rick

[Banshee]

Spent the whole day dismantling that fryer, went off for the trailer and it pissed down, so forgot the idea today, and even if I wanted and I dont, could not do it tomorrow as road is shut Sat and Sun due to French market, so Monday will be a busy day, Rick

You sell the fryer in the end Rick?

[solarman216]

No Zac, once I started to take it to bits discovered that all the bolts were "whitworth" so how old is that? whitworth and BSF came before UNF and UNC and we have been metric for years, no wonder when owner put it on Ebay for 0.99p it attracted no bids, but I now have lots of SS with some nice folds which I am sure will come in handy later, plus loads of SS scrap which at £450 a tonne is good,Rick

[Banshee]

No Zac, once I started to take it to bits discovered that all the bolts were "whitworth" so how old is that? whitworth and BSF came before UNF and UNC and we have been metric for years, no wonder when owner put it on Ebay for 0.99p it attracted no bids, but I now have lots of SS with some nice folds which I am sure will come in handy later, plus loads of SS scrap which at £450 a tonne is good,Rick

Fair play :thumbs

[Blocky10]

Loving the thread Rick :thumbs

[solarman216]

Not much to see today, spent my time moving all the scrap (two trailer loads) from the shop to the yard, so now we have a bit more room to move around, Kieth and his mate screeded the new kitchen floor, pics tomorrow,Rick

[Banshee]

Lovely trailer Rick!! That yours or you hire it?

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[solarman216]

Not mine, it belongs to Dave who rents a part of the yard for scaffold storage, no pics today as did another trailer load with the two canopies that were still fitted and some more ducting and hard core, prior to that removed the walk in freezer and transported it to a shop two streets away, had intended to reassemble it today but they needed time to empty the chest and upright freezers to make space, so came back and did the canopies while the trailer was available, yet more to the SS scrap pile, Rick

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Floor screed that went down Monday

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Old canopy removed, ceiling shot

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Uneven floor to be sorted including buried pipes

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Where freezer was, now going to be Gents WC

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Another view of buried pipes all coming out

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Screed on here, more than 25mm dif in floor levels but took it as high as I could without dismantling and removing walk in fridge as not an option, given that my deadline is 5th November opening date

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Pipes gone

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More screed

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And last one for today,hope you like, Rick

[macabethiel]

Great pictures !!

[solarman216]

Great pictures !!

More to come, MH cover filled, but have to hold my hand up and say I have goofed, I should have stopped the screed 2mm lower than the cover frame to allow for the covering, but all is not lost they can just cover straight over and knife over the frame/cover join

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Wall made good for S/S sheet to be applied on Saturday all round

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Batten at bottom to support S/S sheet, synthaproofed as below DPC

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The other two covers infilled

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Rear of shop boarded over

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Last for today, front of shop boarded, 25 sheets laid 4 more sheets needed to complete, plus timber for bar construction and stud walls, Rick

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This whole board area is going to be ceramic tilled by outside contractors but we have to be ready, the screed-ed areas will have welded floor covering, that has to be dry before they can lay, Rick

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Bar skelital structur front

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And side including rear stud wall through which all services come in from the ceiling, waste and power are already present on the front left hand side, that is all folks till Monday, oh and due to a cock up via phone instructions the framework is too deep by 100mm so my job Monday to sort while Dave is on another job elseware, I know his reaction to having to do things twice, whereas I will be fresh to it, and it will only take 2 to 3 hours, Rick

[Banshee]

Great work Rick :thumb2

[solarman216]

Just a few more pics, been a bit busy with other jobs and presenting motor for MOT but got some now.

This will be the raised seating area

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Bar taking shape

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Top end of raised area

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Would you believe two steels are up here and this end had a bearing of just 2 inches on a brick that itself was overhanging, these engineering bricks will sort it

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Kitchen floor blacked ready for final screed tomorrow and walls lined with S/S

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Bar side of rear wall

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Rear end of bar wall

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New stud to provide new gents WC and small office and screen WC doors from eating area, the disable WC for instance was straight on to food area, not allowed

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Curved shelving in bar

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New office doorway with new gents on the right past the disable WC

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Ladies on the right gents on the left

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Gents in what was the freezer room

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From inside new gents, more tomorrow folks, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Any chance of some close ups of the curve round the bar?:thumb2

[solarman216]

Will take some tomorrow if I remember, the bar or the shelving? I think it is going to be covered with zinc the same as the bar top, with folded joins! Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Will take some tomorrow if I remember, the bar or the shelving? I think it is going to be covered with zinc the same as the bar top, with folded joins! Rick

The bar, it looks neat, is it bent round in one piece?

[solarman216]

The bar, it looks neat, is it bent round in one piece?

Yes one piece of 6mm ply well whetted first, think Dave used 4mm ply for back shelves, the flat sections of the bar will be tiled, the curved section will be zinc, same as bar top, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Yes one piece of 6mm ply well whetted first, think Dave used 4mm ply for back shelves, the flat sections of the bar will be tiled, the curved section will be zinc, same as bar top, Rick

6mm :eek: bloody 'ell that is quite thick really, that's twice in one week I've been impressed now :lol

[Banshee]

That curved section is quality workmanship!!!!!

Awesome transformation Rick :naughty

[danielj]

Looking forward to seeing final product. Some tasty craftsmanship there.

[solarman216]

More progress today, this is Sarah mixing, boy does she know how to mix

[solarman216]

Screed done all 18 bags of it

[solarman216]

This turned out to be very interesting, not wanting the drips from the leaking roof on my new screed I pulled the ceiling down and fixed a temp off-cut of plasterboard to absorb the drips, but once exposed I stuck my hand in to see what sort of beam was in there as the box never looked straight, to my horror the box is empty, absolutely nothing to support the cavity wall above nor the ceiling/flat roof joists this side of the box, needless to say this will be ripped out and a beam inserted toot sweet next week, we have decided to renew the whole roof with a completely new structure approx 95 sq mtrs, more on that next week with pics of how it is now and you will see why we are going down this route

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Close up for Tdoug of the curved bar, Oh and it was 4mm ply not 6 never good remembering numbers

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Another shot

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Floor joists in raised area

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From the other end

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CCTV cabling going in, that is it for this week, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Thats quite a tight bend, all one piece too, I'm liking that :thumb2

Was the wood submerged for a period of time of sprayed or what Rick?

[solarman216]

Just laid it on the floor and brushed water over it both sides for a couple of hours, was a little impatient and should have given it another couple of hours and more water but time is at a premium here and if you look close there is the beginning of a crack about the middle, but as it is the backing for what I would call rough joined zinc it will not be a problem, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Looking forward to seeing the zinc, I can't picture it in my head.

[solarman216]

Got started on the new roof today, as you can see with so many junctions it is a nightmare to keep water tight, but the lads did well to get this far bearing in mind we did not get the timber till gone midday

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The wall on the left is sitting on the non existent beam boxing below

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Centre area

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And left hand side

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Bit more of the boxing of the non existent beam, some acrows up quick, more tomorrow, Rick

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Here you can see the concrete lintel on the left, nothing to the right! what idiots!

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This is going up to support that lot

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Roof at 11.38 hope to be fully boarded by 5pm and ready for first section fibre glass tomorrow

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Left side and whole roof will be covered with poly sheet so it is dry for tomorrow

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Ducting going in for new extract canopy over kitchen cooking area, more tomorrow, floor and wall tilers are starting tomorrow and two tonnes of tiles were delivered today, Rick

[Blocky10]

Love this thread Rick. Makes my fingers itch looking at the photos. Just want to get involved:lol
Half a concrete lintel. Crazy...

[solarman216]

At some point that lintel would have spanned an opening and a wall would have supported the right hand end, they just took the wall away and left this :doh , Rick

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Have to fit that steel tomorrow (Friday) as been told floor layers are starting Monday and our acrows are in the way, lads been busy roofing today, new roof now water tight, pics later

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Taking a break after installing new drain pipe for roof drainage, restricted work space and getting cramp

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New pipe run into existing combined drain system

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New roof gully trap and top of drain run

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Disable WC stripped ready for tiling, WC in place till last minute as only one with a light in it and water supply

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Office with cctv cables in coil

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New gents WC part tilled

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Almost complete fi glass and resin

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Left side complete first coat

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Right side same

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Recessed box gully to take roof water from main building side of parapet wall which is at a lower level than our new roof, more tomorrow, Rick

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Steel in place, when Dave was cutting it he complained the metal cutting disk I supplied was not very good, I took no notice, but when we got it up on one side and needed to slide over to rest on the other wall it bound and we could not move it, so I decided to drill it and insert a pin in order to get a lever on it, blunted two cobalt drills straight away and never did drill it right through, so turns out it is high tensile steel

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Floors ready for welded floor laying on Monday

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Wash room and storage

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Other end:D

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Corridor

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Dis-sable WC wall tilles

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One ladies WC of two, one wall tilled

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1st top coat on roof

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15 guys on site today, camera/security, lecy, beer guys, tillers, dave and his gang, Sarah and I, S/S installer and others, we were tripping over each other, more Monday, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Other end :roflol:

[solarman216]

Too much going on today plus forgot camera, so lots to see tomorrow, Rick

[Banshee]

Steel in place, when Dave was cutting it he complained the metal cutting disk I supplied was not very good, I took no notice, but when we got it up on one side and needed to slide over to rest on the other wall it bound and we could not move it, so I decided to drill it and insert a pin in order to get a lever on it, blunted two cobalt drills straight away and never did drill it right through, so turns out it is high tensile steel

How do you resharpen your bits Rick or do you bin them and buy more?

[solarman216]

How do you resharpen your bits Rick or do you bin them and buy more?

Usually HSS on a bench grinder or HSS and TC on a diamond whet stone by hand, Rick

[solarman216]

Canopy yet to be worked on

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Fitted rails to ceiling, with threaded rod drops, cut hole for outlet and fit ducting

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Filled old vent hole, cut new

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Front view

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1 st hood hung on bottom of rods so I have room to make the pipe connections, then bolt the two canopies together before jacking them up to position, ceiling hole does not line up as had to move it due to odd joist in the way, but no time to modify pipe before labour turned up to lift it in place

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Welded floor covering in wash room/storage/walk in fridge

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Interesting floor tiles! this is now going to be ladies/gents WC and baby changing

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Closer view, I need more scotch!

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Bar floor, now we can move some of the stuff in the main seating area so we have room to work

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Soft drinks and beer chillers

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Beer cellar, more tomorrow folks I am dun in today, Rick

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Looking forward to seeing the zinc, I can't picture it in my head.

Worktop with zinc on is due tomorrow, so you will see, Rick

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Shifted a lot of gear about today, bar top is on but cannot see it clearly as covered in protective film

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Close up

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Tiles to go either side of this corner covering

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Canopy up, just got to push 250 mm duct onto old roof, then convert to 450 mm across old roof then up through new roof to connect to existing 2 Kw fan, also need to run new gas supply 35 or 42 mm, decide which once I have all the details of all gas appliances, plus an electric gas valve that will only enable the gas once a negative pressure is seen in the duct indicating the fan is actively running, all for today, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

:thumb2 What did you do with the boiler flue on the roof?

[solarman216]

:thumb2 What did you do with the boiler flue on the roof?

Got a kit to extend it through the new roof, Rick

[rayf3262]

Canopy up, just got to push 250 mm duct onto old roof, then convert to 450 mm across old roof then up through new roof to connect to existing 2 Kw fan, also need to run new gas supply 35 or 42 mm, decide which once I have all the details of all gas appliances, plus an electric gas valve that will only enable the gas once a negative pressure is seen in the duct indicating the fan is actively running, all for today, Rick
This is the type of differential pressure switch we use at the University on extract and AHU's. One 6mm tube either side of of the fan.
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/9069503/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=UK-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_--_--_-&matchtype=&gclid=CjwKCAjwgvfOBRB7EiwAeP7ehlzM2tL6lH3CLYwD80Wf 2QntLvVyKhBsQMVYVXHvHfTVvwatR-6yyxoCL0UQAvD_BwE

[terranosaurusdoug]

Got a kit to extend it through the new roof, Rick

Lovely:D:thumb2

[solarman216]

Lovely:D:thumb2

Thought about leaving it as was and giving customers a dose of carbon monoxide but decided that it would be bad for the next project already in the pipeline, another smaller eating house restoration, Rick :rolleyes:

[solarman216]

Bought a 50 Mtr roll off pipe earlier in the week, unwrapped it today with the intention of running it through a narrow ceiling void, only to find it is 15 mm not 22, so that job was abandoned

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Started to clad a rear part of the dish wash/storage room so that it could be used for newly arrived crockery temporary storage

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Route for CH pipes to raised deck area, customer is keen to keep pipe visibility in customer area to the minimum, these will be behind the steel column and under floor with only rad tails showing, other rads on lower customer area 3 number will be decorative rads

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Bar front tiles

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Close up

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Floor tiles

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Disabled WC part tilled

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Ladies WC being tilled, all for now Rick

[solarman216]

This is the type of differential pressure switch we use at the University on extract and AHU's. One 6mm tube either side of of the fan.
http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/9069503/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=UK-PLA-DS3A-_-google-_--_--_-&matchtype=&gclid=CjwKCAjwgvfOBRB7EiwAeP7ehlzM2tL6lH3CLYwD80Wf 2QntLvVyKhBsQMVYVXHvHfTVvwatR-6yyxoCL0UQAvD_BwE

The controller I have been supplied with is simply a diff pressure sensor that detects lower pressure in the canopy side of the fan together with a current draw to the fan, yet to get a gas control valve till I know what size pipe I will be using, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Bought a 50 Mtr roll off pipe earlier in the week, unwrapped it today with the intention of running it through a narrow ceiling void, only to find it is 15 mm not 22, so that job was abandoned

Yeah blue for 15 and purple-ish for 22.

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Yeah blue for 15 and purple-ish for 22.

Thanks mate, do not buy enough to know that, but good that my pic shows that so can argue tomorrow against an invoice for 22mm, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Thanks mate, do not buy enough to know that, but good that my pic shows that so can argue tomorrow against an invoice for 22mm, Rick

Should be unmistakable to anyone who works in a merchants:doh

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Should be unmistakable to anyone who works in a merchants:doh

My local I am afraid are not the best but I get good terms so put up with it, I still have a 10k limit although mostly I only spend a couple of hundred, Rick

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The only bit of CH pipe seen on supply run to raised deck area apart from feeds to rads

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Rear shelving of bar etc

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Next WC stripped and to be tilled

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Corridor to wash area started white board so lecy could mount light switch

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From wash area to kitchen, getting a bit tight for space now, lots done this week but not too much for good pics, 3 weeks left, just done a recy on what is left to do! lecy can cope, Dave and his lads as well (lots to do but there are 4 of them) Data/security guy has it easy, I can cope with gas, domestic plumbing, air con for beer cellar, ducting for canopy and full heating plus sorting other trades problems, the grey area is the tilers, at their current rate of progress they stand no chance, in total we have over 5 tonnes of ceramic tiles to lay/apply so far they have not even completed one WC, words next week, :doh :doh , all this week Rick

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No pics today, just too much going on, just seen the WC basins and taps etc, cannot wait to be fitting those, started running gas pipe 42 mm from meter to ceiling void where it will be accessible, then drop down to 35 mm, if they add further gas appliances later then it will be easy to upgrade to 42 all the way but at this time have to look at cost, 42 pipe is not cheap, I was asked today about 1.5 inch black iron barrel, problem is it comes red oxide painted, no good at all, owner has found it on the net, need 100 x .900 mm pieces & 200 floor plates :eek::eek: this is for the balustrade around the raised seating area, tillers recon they have up to ten guys available, with less than 3 weeks left they may need them, hope to have some progress pics tomorrow, Rick

[Banshee]

No pics today, just too much going on, just seen the WC basins and taps etc, cannot wait to be fitting those, started running gas pipe 42 mm from meter to ceiling void where it will be accessible, then drop down to 35 mm, if they add further gas appliances later then it will be easy to upgrade to 42 all the way but at this time have to look at cost, 42 pipe is not cheap, I was asked today about 1.5 inch black iron barrel, problem is it comes red oxide painted, no good at all, owner has found it on the net, need 100 x .900 mm pieces & 200 floor plates :eek::eek: this is for the balustrade around the raised seating area, tillers recon they have up to ten guys available, with less than 3 weeks left they may need them, hope to have some progress pics tomorrow, Rick

Does the red oxide paint cause any issues when soldering it all together Rick?

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Does the red oxide paint cause any issues when soldering it all together Rick?

No nothing to do with that it is a visual issue, Rick

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OK not too much to see today, lots going on but most hidden, rads going in some existing some new, you can see the access hatch which will be fully tiled

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Got 3 of these, around £500

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New floor tiles to WC's the others were no longer available in our time frame as they were not in this months container, cannot say I am sorry as the others I found hard on the brain

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Disable WC

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More in corridor, other WC's part done but could not walk on those tiles yet

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Started on gas and water to kitchen, got to have these functioning by end of week cos they want to start practice cooking, more tomorrow, Rick

[Blocky10]

Nice Rick. Enjoying the read and looking at the pics :thumb2

[solarman216]

So much going on now, I am finding it hard to do any work myself, especially in the ceiling space putting together 35mm gas pipe, it take so long to cool down and the joists are barely strong enough so have to keep very still til it has set, and just as I get a joint up to temp I hear "Rick" being called, I do not like to be rude but sometimes have to be, this is new 42 mm feed from meter replacing the existing 22 mm, how the kitchen and fish fryer worked without problems I am not sure but the pipe run was only 5 Mtrs

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Raised floor ready to be tilled

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Gas in 42 to above ceiling then down to 35 for the 21 Mtr run to the kitchen, then drop to 28 wit 22 draw offs to each appliance if they add more appliances later then we have the option of upgrading without any shop disturbance, there is also 3 phase to the kitchen and these could go gas one day, at this stage it is all about planning ahead

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Bar rear shelves

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With lights

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Now this is interesting, one of the bed sit tenants commented today that they have no hot for 3 days, about the time I shut the gas, so started looking for a tee into our supply, as always assumed the bed sits had there own supply as they do water via a 50 mm main, well found a pretty decrepit 15 mm pipe that goes up 3 floors then across a 4 Mtr flat roof and it feeds 3 YES 3 combi boilers :doh :doh, so temp connected as tenants may be in till Xmas then we will be converting the whole lot

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Rough set out of bar kit, more tomorrow, Rick

[terranosaurusdoug]

Three combis off one 15mm pipe :roflol: thats got to be a record :lol

[Blocky10]

You can only imagine what other short cuts people have made in the past

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You can only imagine what other short cuts people have made in the past

The last guy did the place up two years ago, I have lost count of the rubbish jobs I have uncovered, suffice to say all the existing plumbing has been removed, I have never seen/found so much botched stuff and leaks galore, we had intended to keep some of it notably the toilets, but not now it is all being renewed, heating wise only the boiler is remaining (with mods) the over pressure discharge was a hose pipe laid in the boxing, had it discharged, boiling water would have gone over the disable WC!!!!!! I will take a pic of that tomorrow, as for the electrics, you would not believe, so yes we have had a lot more to sort than first expected, Rick

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All that you can see of my gas outlet work to the appliances, I went out for my camera and upon returning all had been pushed back to the wall as I had given the OK as done, the boys can move quick when you do not want them to but not so quick when you do :doh

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The other end, some appliances have no labels but as a guesstimate well over 100 Kw of power, just the two deep fat fryers are over 44 Kw

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Tiller been busy today

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From bar area

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Rad on wall, it is very heavy and the bricks very hard and brittle, so had problems getting a good fixing, SDS was no good as it just broke the bricks up and fixings would not hold, so used my old method of sharpening TC bit to a sharp edge (like a metal twist bit) and using an ordinary hammer drill, much more time consuming but got clean bored holes that held

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Last for today, lecy just put up this chandelier, will be working tomorrow as cannot afford to get behind, time is getting short now, Rick

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Did a couple of hours today in order to avoid problems on Monday morning as I am not an early starter, plumbed up this unit on wheels, they need to be able to move it in order to get access to the adjacent fryers for the weekly cleaning, so hot/cold and waste all on flexy pipes, plus electrics on Monday to supply the centre of kitchen fridges and freezers

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This is the hand basin I cut into this unit

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The plumbing in the units normal position

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The unit in its normal position, if it was fixed they would not have good access to the fryers, 2 tilers in today, but could not see what they had done! as opposed to the guy that did work in pic on post 187, that was his work in a day on his own, more Monday, Rick

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No pics today, forgot me camera, lots going on though, I managed a lot of plumbing although most of it hidden, two weeks to go, it is going to be hard work to pull it all together by the 5th, but will give it a go, but sometimes things are out of my control like the tilers, they need to be done by the end of the week, but and it is at the moment a big but, Rick

[Blocky10]

I like big buts :lol

Looking good Rick. Scotch o'clock:thumbs

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Oh yes scotch time, Rick

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Kitchen starting to look like one

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Canopy duct connected

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In the roof space, I wanted to put a 450 diam bend here but 9 x 2 existing timbers would not allow

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450 duct

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Inside view

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450 x 90 bend to go up through new roof tomorrow

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Entrance floor tiles

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Raised deck tiles, I start on the bar plumbing tomorrow while the lads continue with the ducting, lecy has installed multi colour changing led's to curved bar section, it is beginning to come together now, Rick

[Banshee]

I'm seeing the end results now Rick, I can picture how it's going to look.

I love the pictures you got of the last place when it was opening night and it was packed. :thumb2

[Lazy-Ferret]

Raised deck tiles, I start on the bar plumbing tomorrow while the lads continue with the ducting, lecy has installed multi colour changing led's to curved bar section, it is beginning to come together now, Rick

I like the totally "Random" way this is tiled... I can't do random, as I am too much of a perfectionist. I tried tiling a bathroom once with 3 different patterned tiles, and even though I thought I was being totally random with picking the tiles, when I stepped back and looked, they were still in a pattern, except one, and some how that really really annoyed me... Only I was not sure if it was the odd tile, or the fact I had failed at doing something I set my mind too....

[johnb5177]

'Random'...... is not an easy thing to achieve......when doing 1x1mtr surveys on habitat we would throw the quadrat over our shoulders.......we were told this was not actually random....that there was an element of structure to it......:nenau
Serious surveyors get a random number generator to produce numbers, that correlate with a grid of the whole area to be surveyed.......:doh
This is then classed as 'random'......seriously....?

[Lazy-Ferret]

'Random'...... is not an easy thing to achieve......when doing 1x1mtr surveys on habitat we would throw the quadrat over our shoulders.......we were told this was not actually random....that there was an element of structure to it......:nenau
Serious surveyors get a random number generator to produce numbers, that correlate with a grid of the whole area to be surveyed.......:doh
This is then classed as 'random'......seriously....?

:doh I wonder how random the number generator actually is?

Going back to the very old days of the first IBM Pc's, I worked at the university of Kent, and that era of computer, there was a software function to generate a random number, but it was in fact picked from a look up list, and if you set all the computers in the lab to run a program that assigned a random numbers to a colour and then display that colour for 10 seconds, and set all the computers running in the lab at the same time, they would all display the same colours. After a while they would get out of sync, but that was because some would run faster than others, even though they were all supposed to be identical. (what? we had a lot of time on our hands...:augie ):doh

[johnb5177]

Love it.....great constructive fun......:thumb2

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More floor tiles

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Bar beer pumps, hep pipe is to be routed via dropped edge of ceiling that houses hidden lights, and to drop down in the services cupboard, black door in previous pic, then one each of the vertical rads each side

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More pumps

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Bar floor covering removed as contractors did not glue it all over and it tore when moving sink units, bar plumbing going in would have been completed today but somebody "lost" a 3Mt length of 2 inch pipe, we use 2 inch as at the top end is the coffee machine and we have had experiences of these in the past, one week to go, but opening has it seems been put back, not because we will not be done, we will, but due to "it" problems with the tills and associated equipment, I guess he is going high tech, and the staff need time to test it all out including the cooking side of things before they open, more tomorrow, Rick

[macabethiel]

Love the pictures it must be a great feeling when you finish the job and the customer is pleased with the outcome. I admire you energy reminds me of when I was 20 years younger!

Must be stressful though when you have deadlines or a customer changes things as you go.

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I have a good method of dealing with stress, I have a bad memory so forget about it after a few mins, yes it is nice when it all comes together, which it is doing now, Rick

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This is the tile, 9 in one

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450 duct up through new roof

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Tiling coming on

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CH pipes up here out of the way, you can see this one as it is not connected yet and is springing up

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The other side, together with access hatch to other part of void

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Top bend to connect to pipe on right after wall knock out

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This will be connected to the sq pipe on the right

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The big boy fan

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Up to the roof, this was all existing, but under used as last people put two smaller fans and ducts on the original roof and causing issues with the council, numpties, they can be seen in earlier pics, I hope to complete the duct tomorrow so they can test cookers Monday

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The shop front awaiting new sign, more tomorrow, Rick

[macabethiel]

It has taken me at least 6 attempts at fixing my gates this last week and though I am not 100% certain the dodgy cable joint looks like the culprit now.

That said I am fully retired now so the length of time does not really matter and the full greasing of the mechanism and the added water drain is bound to help in the long term.

Will be great to see the final pictures when you have finished the job.

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Last bend on

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Got to cut Sq tube to line up

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Joined with a fill in piece

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Round to Sq the fill in piece was this end, sorry

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All done bar a few screws, as all batteries dead, due to some pillock un-plugging my chargers, all ready now for Monday once Lecy has connected the fan and gas control valve, we can then supply gas to appliances and test

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Overall view, does not look bad, the only reason I put the duct in the roof from the hood was to lessen the visual impact on the neighbours, and am pleased with the result, you can imagine how another 4.5 Mtrs of duct would have looked across that nice flat roof, next week is the last week when it should all come together, only got 4 WC' to fit, fin CH,8 plastic sheets to rear store wall, beer room chiller to install, boxing round pipes, fin bar area, etc, etc plus all the other trades to sort, more Monday, Rick

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The shop front awaiting new sign, more tomorrow, Rick

That motor looks like that “French Thingy” of Briggies, has he come down to lend a hand:thumbs

Looks a cracking job Rick :clap

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Nah no idea whose car that is, but might have bee one of the tilers, Rick

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Nothing today peeps, took Suza to vets early am for Spay, sadly she has not copped with it very well so are looking after her, Rick

[jims-terrano]

Hope Suza is back to her normal self soon. One of my dogs has been twice lately for vet treatment and has to go again. Not nice when they’re recovering from anethetic is it.

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Yes she is fine today, took the "Buster collar" off within half an hour of being home, she tried washing the wound about three times, each time I scolded her gently then immediately praised her up, she has not tried to wash it since and had a small meal this evening of raw sheep's heart, her favorite.

As for the job, lots gone on today but only took one pic before the batteries died.

This will be a wine rack protected by a pair of steel mesh sliding doors, these are going to be fabricated on site due to their size, will give you more tomorrow, Rick

[Lazy-Ferret]

Hugs to Suza... she is such a cutie.:kissy

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Hugs to Suza... she is such a cutie.:kissy

Given, thank's Clive, she is doing very well, and even Rusty is giving her respect, even at this early stage he can tell she is "different", Rick

[jims-terrano]

Good to hear the dogs recovering Rick. As we all know who own dogs the pick up on a hell of a lot including when we are ill. Back to it, an interesting project here Rick.

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Dish/glass wash area, the shelf on the right has been loose!! since the beginning, had to remove it to raise it and found it was fixed with 30mm screws:eek::doh

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Interesting basins/taps and base

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Soft drinks chiller

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Round the corner beer stuff, and the cellar chiller hung, but not connected yet

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Table for a sales terminal will be tiled top

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Another for terminal and coffee machine, a little more unexpected plumbing

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Balustrade started

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Wine rack

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As seen from entrance