Doing your own pointing

[Bob Buzzard]

I noticed the other day that the pointing on my chimney stack needs doing. It doesn't look like too big a job. I've got a long enough ladder to get onto the roof so I was thinking of doing it myself. Has anyone else had experience of pointing? Can it be a DIY job or do I need to call someone proper like Dulwich Construction?

[KidKruger]

If it's a stack on your roof you can get away with it not quite perfect pointing, but do try and practice if you can, mix of cement is important and YouTube should have loads of instructive clips.

[Bob Buzzard]

Thank you for that advice - the mix of sand/cement - is that 'Roofers' mix' I need to make?

[????]

I use my jabby porky or sometimes, if especially animated, a pokey type stick

[Bob Buzzard]

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> I use my jabby porky or sometimes, if especially

> animated, a pokey type stick

No, I really do need to sort out the pointing on my chimney stack and need some advice.

[Saffron]

Phone a big company if you want to pay a bomb, or do it yourself and make a pig's ear of it.

It needs to be properly raked out, or the new mix won't hold properly. Also the mix needs to contain the correct ratio of waterproofer, or it won't be weatherproof. You need to do it soon, or it will be too cold and wet.

Why not get a local independent builder to do it? I can PM you details if you're keen. :)

[Saffron]

???? Wrote:

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> I use my jabby porky or sometimes, if especially

> animated, a pokey type stick

A tent pole or riding crop will also do in a pinch.

[Seabag]

Why not employ a 'man'

Y'know, one who shins up ladders an' the likes, whilst you direct and partonise him from the safety of the floor

"There's a good chap, don't know how you do it my man, left a bit but don't fall"

(coz my ruddy car is parked right uner where you'll land)

All the while you could roll your wonderfull stick on moustache into ever pointer waxy points and puff a massive cigar, whilst squinting on your monocle

Later you'd ride your elephant around the grounds whilst having a G&T

Wadda y'reckon Bob ?

Have I over egged it?

[Salsaboy]

*Ahem* Really?

???? Wrote:

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> I use my jabby porky or sometimes, if especially

> animated, a pokey type stick

[Saffron]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Why not employ a 'man'

>

> Y'know, one who shins up ladders an' the likes,

> whilst you direct and partonise him from the

> safety of the floor

>

> "There's a good chap, don't know how you do it my

> man, left a bit but don't fall"

> (coz my ruddy car is parked right uner where

> you'll land)

>

> All the while you could roll your wonderfull stick

> on moustache into ever pointer waxy points and

> puff a massive cigar, whilst squinting on your

> monocle

>

> Later you'd ride your elephant around the grounds

> whilst having a G&T

>

> Wadda y'reckon Bob ?

>

> Have I over egged it?

Surely the advent of laser eye surgery was the death knell of monocles? Or does one just keep a rose-tinted monocle about oneself these days, for reflection?

[Bob Buzzard]

Saffron Wrote:

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> Phone a big company if you want to pay a bomb, or

> do it yourself and make a pig's ear of it.

>

> It needs to be properly raked out, or the new mix

> won't hold properly. Also the mix needs to

> contain the correct ratio of waterproofer, or it

> won't be weatherproof. You need to do it soon, or

> it will be too cold and wet.

>

> Why not get a local independent builder to do it?

> I can PM you details if you're keen. :)

Thank you for your advice - I'll might get my long ladder out this weekend and pop up onto the roof and see how bad it is and then decide whether or not I need to a call a chap.

[Salsaboy]

Don't forget this:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/work-at-height/faqs.htm

[Seabag]

Think of Emu

Wassis name

Oh yeah, Rod hull