Weekend is over.
Sleep sucks.
Life is good.
I will Copy and paste a single write up.
So apologies for duplicate pics, but you love pics…… Right??
Saturday I washed the van in preparation for Sundays breakfast meeting.
Cleanliness is next to godliness I hear.
Making a fire earlier in the day to burn a load of broken furniture wood (non recyclable) it became apparent that the crack in the structure was growing.
I possibly caused this a few years ago making a massive fire in the middle of winter.
I made the decision to smash this down after 13 years of service.
That will mean another job.
More money.
Buggerr.
Dinner was good.
https://youtu.be/d2glX9aZ3KQ?si=GbrW5mmeUFxd_Bzl
Sunday I headed out in the van.
Made a video of the day.
Met some nice people.
Had an offer to buy the van.
https://youtu.be/49Tf7UnY8Pk?si=2avF4Vy002_JP3Hh
All the cars at the meeting.
https://youtu.be/iCkqrX8dV2U?si=gn5LgDBs0sP82Nr8
Afterwards I headed out to Uncle Bob’s yard to see him and Uncle Peter (86 year old retired builder) about buying some “new” recycled, cleaned bricks.
I did a rough count of the face-bricks used above the preparation area.
I plan on leaving the concrete foundation and cabinets plus cast, reinforced floor of the chimney as it all seems intact.
Approximate count is around 500 bricks to replace what is there but I am going to change the design a bit or a lot.
Smashing down the rest of it, the rubble will be processed into another job.
More about this later.
Uncle Peter was busy pointing the brickwork of one of the barns where he had rebuilt the corner that was smashed by a truck, years ago.
So I dragged him away from his mortar and we spoke bricks.
He has about 800 cement style, pressed bricks on some pallets that could be for sale.
At 50p per brick it’s not as cheap as free, but finding something where the price, look and availability cross on a sweet spot it not that easy.
So I agreed to taking the 800 and fetching and transporting them myself for £400.00 unless he changes his mind.
The excess will be used on another job which is planned for the short term future.
Lastly…….
I looked at this again, not easy to access as it is stored, if you can call it that, in the rear of a massive, disused, damaged greenhouse with loads of junk in front of it.
Uncle Bob the Hoarder owns it.
Wants very strong money for it.
But I do like it.
Think re-body.
Eventually I left them and headed home.
Moved to green 206 CC down to the workshop as I have done nothing with it and getting the roof to open since weeks ago when I walked away to get on with more important things.
Parked the van and headed to Sallys place to use her broadband to upload my YouTube videos that I can’t do at home due to Sky and Openreach’s terrible service.
Have a great week.