squaring off brick archways

[patty]

Davo scube nice job we have 2 arch ways over our verandah and have always thought about squaring them using a lintel you have given me some good ideas on how to approach it cheers!!

[davo_scuba]

Well i'm glad some off you liked it, as for "Looks like hes having fun there with his mask off" I must be looking at diffrent pictures !!. I think at keying in the bricks is the proper way for this to be done if you cut it's always going to look like that (eg crap and cheap)."Hell probably want a bin which will be $400" (for what 400 bucks for a 12 m2)last time i got a skip it was a few hundred (but we might be in diffrent parts of the country) - he might find a use for the removed bricks in the garden (bbq, letterbox or something).Even moving a i beam around would not be too much effort with the right help so don't think all the costs are necessary, "How much for the scaffold?" (what for just make up a few tressals)"How much for the Acrow props?" (what for rhs post with a trolly jack)"How much for the Quik cut to chop the bricks out?" "How much for the bricks that are no longer made?" ( that's why you need to count how many you might need before starting and then take them out with care)"How much for the delivery of sand?" (let the bricky sort that out and pay him for that side of things but a few bags of cement and sand etc 60 bucks pick it up in the car on the way home from work easy !)"The list is will be bigger than that". (that might be so but I must be looking at it from a money saving point of view rather than find every opportunity to charge for a bit more then add a bit of cream).I'm sorry that Autogenous thinks it's a crap job (maybe if you lived next door you could be one of those helpful neighbours and offer some good advice or even better help out for a few beers and snag or two. and btw the door might need a bit of maintenance but once the front porch is on with a tile (hip style roof ) it should be ok still sorcing cheep material for this one and it's been a few years but will get it done one day. just trying to work out how to get the plans draw up and what's going to be needed to pass through council.Everyone have a go it's no way hard and only take a few days. (and yes the brickie did a great job and had it done in 3 hours and only wanted $150 but i gave him 200 for a good job inc materials. (the pier would have looked a bit out of proportion(to small being just one brick wide) on the rh/s thats why we made it bigger.