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Thread: Brickwork Query
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8th August 2005, 10:51 PM #1
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Brickwork Query
Hi All,
I've got a 50's brick veneer in Melbourne with a God damn ugly A/C unit poking out the front. I'm gonna rip it out and replace the 20 or so bricks missing in the wall to neaten it up. What is the best mortar to get or what is the mixture to make for brickie stuff like this?Help ma boab, the bairns goat it awe wrang!
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8th August 2005, 11:29 PM #2
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You should probably as Al (Ozwinner). He's a brickworking queerie.
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9th August 2005, 07:57 PM #3
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Hi
6 sand 1 cement 1 lime with a dash of detergent to make it workable.
Thatll be $135.97 please.
Al
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9th August 2005, 10:31 PM #4
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can you buy it premixed, I'm lazy
Help ma boab, the bairns goat it awe wrang!
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9th August 2005, 11:03 PM #5
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Hi Al,
Originally Posted by ozwinner
Hi
6 sand 1 cement 1 lime with a dash of detergent to make it workable.
Thatll be $135.97 please.
Al
Is that the "quote for a quote" or is it a bill for a virtual job? If you can manage the latter - we need to talk, bro
Cheers!
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10th August 2005, 12:28 AM #6
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You can get premixed mortar but it's cr@p. Mixing it yourself is not much more work and you'll save yourself a lot of grief. Originally Posted by Hootsmon
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tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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10th August 2005, 01:47 AM #7
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Yep I agree, dash of detergent, keep it stiff.
That premix stuff really is the most frustrating **** happenin'.
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11th August 2005, 06:38 PM #8
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Its the account for the virtual work I thought about doing. Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon
Hi Al,
Is that the "quote for a quote" or is it a bill for a virtual job? If you can manage the latter - we need to talk, bro
Cheers!
Al
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