 I'm going to grind the joints out so they're all uniform and try and make it look a bit better. This isn't going to be fun, but what can you do? We can't leave it like this because it's actually dangerous now. Good morning. It's our apprentice today. Hey Daisy, there's sunning your eyes. There you go. Is that better? There you go. Don't drop it. I'm glad she put it down. How do you help? Thank you. Hang on, get your high vis on. Wow. A green dress. I've never heard of that before. There we go. There you go. Oh, there's the beds. We need to get going so we can get started. Daisy's done to see Nanny now. She's gone for a walk. So there's been some interesting footage to edit from that. Yeah. So this is Sarah and Stuart's house. You may recognise the fence. Oh yeah, you recognise the fence. How long ago did we do that? Two years ago, isn't it? Because Daisy's nearly two. I think the garden's been done over a year. And as you can see, it was done badly. They paid a lot of money for this and it looked great. Obviously it always does. It looks great when it's first done, but I've never been happy with the way the joints are. Look at that. It's got to be six mil that. Down to next to nothing there. There's some over here. There is no joint. And where they have jointed it, the mix has been too weak. It's all just come up. There's stuff growing in it. That means it's too weak. So us being bricklayers, the only thing we can do is repoint it. I know you can use this fancy jointing compound, but we've never used that before. So we're just going to stick with traditional. And then Alex has just found this one. Let's pull it up, Joan. What have we done? What a surprise. So we're going to, I've seen on Instagram, a landscape, he's repaired a couple of these. That's all we can do is repair it. We can't redo it. Nope, we can't afford that. And Sir and Stuart can't afford it. So it's going to be repair as best we can, make it safe for little Daisy. There's one here, I think, as well. It's one of these little square ones. It's loose. But any loose ones we're going to take up. There you go. There's one. And then look at the joints. We're going to joint those so they're nice and even, so you're not tripping on them. We're going to grind the joints out so they're all uniform and try and make it look a bit better. Obviously, we can't make it look perfect because we're not good at this kind of thing. We just need to try and help. Yeah, you can see, you can see on the flags, the dotting dabs underneath. See the way it dries. So I think that is it, isn't it? I think the loose ones, we've seen on Instagram, you mix up SBR and cement and just basically stick them back down. And where the dotting dabs are, we'll fill that with more so it's solid. I'm just trying to make sense of it all. And we're going to use grit sand and cement four to one and make it quite dry and just ram it in tight. And we're going to go down at least 15, 20 mil to give it a good key. Yeah, there's another example of it. Look at the state of that. Instead of doing a proper cut round the manual, they just cut a piece, cut another thin piece, cut another piece, another piece. So basically, and oh yeah, they have one to see if they'll come back and fix it. But guess what? Nobody answers the phone. They don't exist anymore. And these were recommended, believe it or not. So I hope nobody else has used them. So let's just start making a mess. This isn't going to be fun, but what can you do? We can't leave it like this because it's actually dangerous now. So let's get these grinders out and get going. Right, I've had a little go at it. It's not fun. It's got to be dipping as well. The whole thing, the flags don't line up, which is made worse by no mortar being in the joints. You can see that one there. Let's bang. Once we've jointed it though, it's going to be a bit better. It's hard taking just a few mil off the flags. We've got to call the marks on the flag. It's still going to be better than it was. I've put the grinding blade just taking the joints out down as deep as I can. You see how it's now drying out nice and quick. Look how wet that is. That was the mortar between the flags. Look at the state of that. I don't think there's even any cement in that. I don't even need the grinders to get it out. That's a little disgrace. No one's the most growing it. It's always out. I hope that you get to see this video and I hope they're ensuing themselves. Really do. That's a lot of money they've ripseraged you off from. Obviously we're not charging for this because it's family and we just want to look after them and make sure it's safe for the baby. I think we're up to about four or five wobbly flags now. So we're just going to stick them back with SBR and cement and fill up more to round the dot and dab so it's full bed. It's going to take a lot longer than I thought. I thought we'd have this done today. We'd be lucky to get the grinding in today. We need to stop at one point and make sure we get it repointed today because it's going to rain tomorrow so we don't really want to rake it all out in the full joints full of water. We'll just have to do it in stages as and when we can. We're actually here today because we're quiet. We've had the last couple months we've had a lot of quiet spells. We've had as much time off as we had we've had to working so now the weather's picking up we're hoping to get busy again. So Alex will be back in a minute from his toilet break and then we'll crack on. I'm going to brush a bit of this crap up so we can see what we're doing and carry on. Good Friday morning. Enough right Fridays today because we're just round the corners at Surrey Stewart's again and wow this job took a lot longer than we thought as they do but this patio is awful. All this is done and dabbed all of it so as we're going along the popping there's loose ones anyway and as we grind out it's popping up as well. So the best we can do is just SBR them back down and fill in the joints as best we can. This whole thing needs ripping up and redoing but that's just not going to happen that's just not in the budget because they ourselves you put it down and they just won't even answer the phone they're not interested. They won't even come back to repoint it. We're using grit sand 4 to 1 and just packing it all back as best we can. Just stop everything wobbling and make it safe again. It's got a huge dip in it. It's not even close to flat. It's got all these weird cuts look around where they cut around the drains. A tiny cut weird little cut there weird little cut there and then this random piece there. So yeah this is what it looks like when your daughter's been ripped off by some landscape builders. Landscape gardeners who have now disappeared. I thought the only good thing was it's somewhere for Daisy to play. We had a lovely time yesterday because Daisy was out helping but she can't play today because we've got it back on the ground to get these joints something like breaking down and breaking the joints bigger as well just to try and get everything looking uniform. Let me just show you some examples of some of the joints as well. There you go 25 mil to absolutely nothing so why didn't they just push that flag that way 10 mil that would have been uniform joints. Again they're less than 10 mil. I mean I am no expert when it comes to flagging because we don't do it. We leave it to the people who know what they're doing or supposedly know what they're doing but we just do what Britley is doing repairing it and repointing it. So I wish I knew what the names were. I'd name check them so nobody else has to use them. Oh yeah these ones here you can see where the cross joints just stops because they've just put blocks down there and those flags overhang the blocks by about three inches so there's nothing underneath that far edge. Luckily it's against the fence. Oh yeah and they've just built up over the fence. This fence we did so if you notice there's a whole rail missing at the bottom. They've also brought the ground up against the fence as well. That should have had a gravel board on this side of the post so you can get down behind to paint it but as you see the grass is up against the post against the rails and the boards so they're just going to rot. So they don't look like what they're doing. Freaking useless. Right we're back at Sir and Stuart's house as you can see we've got quite a bit of it done not as much as we'd hoped but pretty much all that grinding is done. So we've got that uniform ish that's another loose one there. There's one loose one down there it's not too bad and the last one is this corner which needs a bit of grinding as well. The joints are same there so this one flag needs lifting and grinding. I'll show you underneath that when I take it up how bad it is. Then you can see the flags are up against the fence. Proper paw. That's a six foot fence that and that's high level with me and I'm only five foot seven eight. So plan today is while it's nice is get the rest of this garden sorted out so that you can plane it properly. It's currently fast asleep. Yeah Alex is going to carry on with the pointing I'm going to get these two flags sorted out and get the rest of the grinding done here. This is the last bit to do now. I actually killed the blade on the nine inch grinder probably about six months where it just disappeared but yeah as you can see this is another mess like the state of it. Look at that one as we make as we make Martin from we're going to say it's dog shit absolutely horrendous and they've walked away and took the money for this as I say so it's still paying for this. It's not even done two years it's an absolute disgrace. Look at this behind this gate. Just do any old shit in here. We're just coming through it. So we're going to get stuck in and hopefully get this all done today. Alex just done doing the radio pack up system we've been sent by Milwaukee which is fantastic. That's the tool chest. That's our new tool chest with all our tools in. Better get on soon because fix radio's on in a sec sorry fix radio's on and Clive Holland's on in a minute. Let's get it on. So while you do that I'll just talk a bit then so I'm sure you'll see it before and after before I do this outro or however it's going to work but that was the pits. Not the job I mean it well wasn't great but the the stage it was in. That took a long time that. Well it took three days. Yeah three full days this took or two days and three quarters but as you can see the sail looks a bit better now. You can actually actually see crush joints and there's actually mortaring them so that's always good. So now these are rocking in these either now so the the steady the filled up and they're not going to rock anymore so now and the joints are uniform so it just looks better. It looks better and it's safer for that for that baby running around. No tripping over the flags. 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