Thanks to Dave’s able skills, the work to repair the bollards has begun. The good news is that it only took about 2 hours to repair 15 damaged posts in the immediate plaza area. The bad news . . . upon inspection almost all of the remaining bollards in the Mercado are either loose or completely detached . . . about 65 altogether.
On the original install plain mortar was used, incorrectly, to attach the caps. Before the fix we chipped off as much as we could.
For the repair Dave used thin set, which has a kind of glue in it. Hopefully - fingers crossed - that will work. If it doesn't, we have some other ideas.
Dave did such a nice job, you can't tell a repair was made.
Over the course of the morning we had some onlookers. Initially, James was there to entertain, but later grabbed a dustpan to help Ross (not shown) cleanup all the broken mortar.
Among the rubberneckers - Dave's biggest fan - who stopped by to inspect and provide moral support . . .
On the original install plain mortar was used, incorrectly, to attach the caps. Before the fix we chipped off as much as we could.
For the repair Dave used thin set, which has a kind of glue in it. Hopefully - fingers crossed - that will work. If it doesn't, we have some other ideas.
Dave did such a nice job, you can't tell a repair was made.
Over the course of the morning we had some onlookers. Initially, James was there to entertain, but later grabbed a dustpan to help Ross (not shown) cleanup all the broken mortar.
Among the rubberneckers - Dave's biggest fan - who stopped by to inspect and provide moral support . . .
Well, thank you Dave and Gene and Ross....Wow. What a job. And there are still 65 MORE to repair? Jeez. That's 8-10 more hours of labor. There may be too much skill involved, but if not, there are other capable hands that could help if Dave could give a quick lesson. If we got organized we could have a repair work party early one morning and, as they say "git 'er done" What do you guys think? Feasible?
ReplyDeleteDAVE! DAVE! DAVE!!! A thousand thanks to Dave for his thorough and hard work.
ReplyDeleteDave, Gene, Ross & James, our bollards are standing taller!!! Gracias
ReplyDeleteJane - let's talk strategy on bollard repair at the upcoming meeting. It certainly would be great to get a team out there. Many hands make light work!
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