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29/09/2026

🧱 UP & DOWN TUESDAY… 😂🌧️☀️

Bit of an up and down one today.

We were debating whether to even start this morning. It was raining, everything was soaking wet and apparently there was plenty more rain on the horizon. 😂🌧️

Anyway… we decided to give it a go.

Wet, humid, bit of sunshine, even a rainbow thrown in there 😂🌈… but somehow we managed to get the day in.

Only downside was we ran out of face blocks, so we couldn’t quite get this one finished. 😩🧱

Probably back here Thursday to get it over the line.

Back down to Subiaco tomorrow. 👌

Definitely one of those days where you just take what you can get. 😂🧱👍

29/09/2026

🧱 NEW MUDBOARD STANDS… 👌

Made these up over the weekend ready for when we’re working off the scaffold. 🧱

Simple. Solid. Perfect height.

Should make life a little easier up there. 😂👌

What do you reckon… will they work or will they fall? 😂🤔👇

Will test them onsite soon. 👍🧱

29/09/2026

🧱 OLD DEWALT TOOLS… BACK FROM THE DEAD 😂🔋

Picked this little thing up online.

Basically it converts your old DeWalt tools so you can run them off the newer batteries. 👌

Adaptor clips into the old battery slot, new battery slides straight onto it… and apparently that’s it. 😂

I reckon there must be thousands of these old DeWalt tools sitting in sheds because the batteries have had it.

If this actually works properly, it’s a pretty cheap way of bringing them back to life. 😂👌

Anyone else tried one of these? 🤔👇

28/09/2026

🍦 WANT A FLAKE IN THAT? 😂😂

Nothing to see here… just a wheelbarrow full of vanilla soft serve. 🍦😂

That white mortar was looking a bit too creamy. 👌😂

Good mix, mate. 👌😂

Anyone want a Flake in that? 😂🍫🧱

28/09/2026

🧱 WORKING FROM AN OFFSET… 👌

Always work from the boundary.

This one’s pretty straightforward. The offset pin is 130mm from the boundary, and the set-out plan shows our blockwork needs to be 50mm off the boundary.

So it’s simply:

130mm − 50mm = 80mm.

Put the tape on 80mm at the offset pin, mark it, and that gives you the line you need to follow for the set-out. 👌

Nothing complicated — just make sure you know exactly what your offset is before you start. 😂🧱

I wonder how many people just flick off the scour marks on the slab. 😂🤔👇.

27/09/2026

🧱 SIMPLE PIER SET-OUT. 👌

Setting out a pier and I needed to transfer the line onto the footing.

2m level lined up where the pier needs to run, a few bricks to hold it solid so it doesn’t move, then simply mark the line onto the footing. 👌

It’s surprising how much this Stabila 2m level actually gets used. 😂🧱

Would you trust this method? 🤔👇

26/09/2026

🧱 PROBABLY THE MOST USED PROFILE CLAMP ONSITE… 👌

This has gotta be one of the most common profile clamps you’ll see brickies using. Simple, quick and does the job. 😂👍

This one’s made to clamp onto a standard brick, but when you’re using it somewhere it doesn’t quite fit, no dramas.

Little bit of timber to fill the void, tighten her up and away you go. 😂🧱👌

Sometimes you don’t need another clamp… you just need a bit of timber. 😂😂

26/09/2026

🧱 GOT YOU A PRESENT MATE… 😂🎁

Popped over to Sydney Tools just before smoko and grabbed a couple of new Bahco rakes. 👌

Walked back onto site and told Ryder I’d got him a present. 😂😂

I think he seemed pretty happy with it. 😂

And perfect timing too… because the new rake went straight to work. 😂😂🧱

Anybody else used these Bahco rakes? They seem pretty sturdy… let’s see how long they last on our jobs. 😂😂👍

26/09/2026

🧱 DOWNPIPES MILES OUT OF PLUMB… NO PROBLEM 😂👌

We could basically get the first course in around these downpipes… then we had a problem. 😂

They were that far out of plumb there was no chance we were getting the blockwork around them properly.

So… bit of plastic pipe tied around the downpipes, into a clamp, then slowly pulled the whole lot over until they were plumb. 👌😂

Now we can actually get the blocks around them and carry on.

Nothing fancy. Just another little onsite fix to keep the job moving. 😂🧱👍

Sometimes you’ve just gotta make something work. 😂

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