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Saturday
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A hole is dug .....
Work got under way on the Saturday, although the Working Week proper did not officially start until the
Monday. One of the major jobs was to complete the reorganisation of the drainage that had been started last
year. It was necessary to raise some of the patio flagstones and link the foul pipe from the right hand side
cottages into the new one that was laid under the car park twelve months previously. This also provided an
opportunity to install electrical and water services to the camping area, using the old pipe as a conduit.
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there's a hole, there's a Lister .....
One thing that can always be guaranteed is that when a hole is dug at
the Club, John Lister will turn up. If the hole involves sewage,
he just turns up all the more quickly and this was no exception.
For this Working Week, the Club had purchased an air-driven depointing
tool and John soon put this to use to remove the grouting between some
paving slabs, enabling us to run some steel wire armoured cable for
the camping electrics into the main entrance porch.
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The paint crew gets warmed up .....
The Working Week benefitted from an army of smaller persons who spent the greater part of the week painting.
Gromit received an early telling off from a parent who was having trouble removing oil based pink primer from a very
messy offspring, so later activities were restricted to the use of acrylics and emulsions. A workforce comprising
a number of people of various sizes was very useful when it came to painting areas with more restricted access.
Work started with repainting the front bedroom in No.10.
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the way .....
As John was playing with the air tool, Andy Dobson had to attack the
pointing using traditional methods. Luckily, the tool soon became
available and this speeded up no end the process of removing the old
and soggy pointing. The cottage walls allow in considerable amounts
of water, although thankfully most of it goes down between the inner
and outer skins rather than into the premises.
A particularly bad area is the main porch which on a wet day used to
resemble Marble Showers, but thanks to work over the last three years
now only floods once or twice a year. The Working Week has a long
term project to refurbish all of the dodgy pointing on the building,
but it is a long and tedious task.
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Surveying the scene .....
Work continues to resurvey Ogof Ffynnon Ddu and the new print will require a greater area than was currently offered
by the board in the Long Common Room. Clark Friend and Andy Amatt started work on this by removing the old board
and reorganising the electrics before installing the new board.
The ageing and now yellow acetate sheet which had done a superb job hiding the last visible details of the fading
OFD survey now found a new lease of life as a floor covering to catch the painters' droppings.
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