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Patio Pointing Solution

I have posted on this forum before regarding my university project to design a pointing aid. I really appreciated all the replies and it has helped me a lot with the project.
I was wondering if anyone on the site could help me some more with further research. This would involve the following:
1. Contacting me with your address if you are going to be doing any pointing in the near future.
2. Receiving a package from myself, including some questions, a disposable camera and some instructions.
3. When you are pointing, taking a few snaps with the camera of issues or interesting occurrences that may occur, a before and after picture, that sort of thing.
4. Answering the few questions that I will have sent, at the end of the day.
5. Sending this all back to me in the self addressed envelope I will have included.

If you would be interested please reply to this forum or contact me directly:
euan.j.fraser@strath.ac.uk

The more people that can help me the better, I would be very grateful for any assistance.

Thanks,

Euan Fraser

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    What a great idea Euan
  • Thanks for the support guys. I've had a couple of e-mails already which is great.
  • Hi Euan, I live and work in Glasgow and if you'd like we can arrange a live trial for your product on a project we have coming up in a couple of weeks in Jackton near East Kilbride. This might provide you an opportunity to apply the product in full working practice and take some live feedback and notes from that. PM me if interested and we can make the arrangements. If not I'd still like apack to give the product a trial. Cheers, Nicky.
  • Nicky,

    Thanks for getting back to me. At the moment I do not actually have a working product, the research I was looking to carry out was on your current methods of working. However I have started to establish some concepts and making simple prototypes, so it could be that in a couple of weeks when your job comes around that I do have a testable product. If that was the case it would be brilliant to get your feedback on it.

    Euan
  • Hi Euan

    I have used a point master before and other pointing machiness on the market. I have to say that for a small domestic job you cant beat a pair of knee pads, a plasterers 10mill pointing trowl and a small length of your clients hose pipe. (I always mix a mixers worth of dry mix and store it in bags in the shade. I mix a buckets worth with water and use this up and then have a break.

    By using just wet mix and compressing the morter a strong and lasting finish is achieved. It can even be rained on within hours. IN the summer you can hose it down every hour or so. By letting the pointing not dry out to quickly it cures harder.

    The problem I found with the point master (espesially on rough edged slabs) is that the mix has to be quite sloppy to work. This can cause a mess on the stones. Also the inevitable voids under slabs can cause a problem.


    Sorry to be negative.l
  • Euan

    I'll help you, to save time all questions and photos could be relayed as attachments, with clarity being gain you can tell me exactly which shots of the pointing procedure you require

    Failing this you are more than welcome to come to Devon for the day and have a go, theres alot more to it than sand and cement. Weather / last weeks weather, temp, ratio, product

    Kerry
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