Right I have now bought the brickie tool, what to do next??

[JJonas]

I have a feeling that a bunch of edugeeks may not be the right people to ask for the answers.

 

Im with you on that one. Not knowing what a brickie tool was I went and googled it. It just not right I tell you theres not a light on it or anywhere to plug a Cat5 cable or USB. Its all too strange good luck with the building project im going back to my Linux box.

[ddcmp]

Im with you on that one. Not knowing what a brickie tool was I went and googled it. It just not right I tell you theres not a light on it or anywhere to plug a Cat5 cable or USB. Its all too strange good luck with the building project im going back to my Linux box.

 

lol lol lol

[powdarrmonkey]

I'm not going to carry on arguing because it's pointless. But I don't see how it helps drawing analogies about clearing drains and so on, they're totally different things. (If you really want an analogy: you wouldn't assume that because you can ride a bike, you can drive a car without tuition, would you? and if you could let the clutch in and go places, that doesn't make you safe.)

 

If you're really intent on doing this, then I genuinely hope it goes well and you'll have something to look at and be proud of. But it's such a big undertaking I'm surprised you're not approaching it with a little less abandon. I'm pretty sure there are some building firms nearby who'd swap you a day of your labour carrying bricks for a day on site with you getting you started. You can get a long way without money if you put your mind to it (you could even see if you can manage to pay out nothing on the whole project, if you wanted a challenge, a la River Cottage).

 

Somebody else clearly agrees that you're being ambitious, because they've repped me.

 

powdarrmonkey (with a proper manly arr, donchaknow, and who isn't going to post any further).

[ddcmp]

well duh, the whole point of me doing it apart from saving dosh is because i want a challenge, thats been the whole point of everything in my life...i have repped you as well as it seems repping makes you feel good il give you a thanks as well so you can sleep today adding to the various times you have been repped and thanked!

[powdarrmonkey]

.i have repped you as well as it seems repping makes you feel good il give you a thanks as well so you can sleep today adding to the various times you have been repped and thanked!

 

Please don't.

[ddcmp]

.......powdarrmonkey (with a proper manly arr, donchaknow, and who isn't going to post any further).

 

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[steveg]

I'd say provided its legal (i.e within planning / building regs) then go for it. Other than some diy skils i'd never done much building work before 3 years ago, when along with my dad and brother we thought we'd have a stab at building a 60 square meter extension.

 

We ended up hiring a brick layer to do some of the birck laying, mainly because we'd still be doing it now if we hadn't, but other than that we did the rest ourselves, and have been living it it for a year now. - It has all been signed off by the building inspector.

 

We learn't a hell of a lot from doing it, and overall it was good fun. It also saved a fortune compared with getting a professional in.

 

Best of luck with the project, just work through it one bit at a time and there's not a lot you can go wrong on really, provided you research it first.

 

Steve