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Ja, new piece in today. Will do a water test tomorrow.
So the piece of glass is 6mm 900X350. I went to a local glass shop (who shall not be named) and they wanted R270 for the piece! Thats R850 per square. Went to builders and they charged me R142 (R455 per square)

 

So with builders glass I can put together a 3 foot tank for:
Glass: R511
Silicon: R48
Polystyrene: R40
Total: R600 for a 3 ft tank

 

Last time bought glass from builders ... they wanted me to buy 1/4 1/2 or full sheets ... is your builders still doing single cut sizes at full sheet % pricing?

Later Ferdie

 

Hi Ferdie
I've never experienced that with glass only with timber. Builders Strubens Valley and Malibongwe both sell glass per square meter. They usually pull an off-cut out the pile and trim it.

 

Shot thanks .. yeah it was Builders Strubens Valley that had me take a 1/2 sheet of 6mm not that I minded too much just had to make up some cut sizes at the point in time.

Will be interesting to see what they say when they do not have that off-cut.

Later Ferdie

 

I needed a beer after cutting the glass. It was like the "Death of A Thousand Cuts".
I cleaned the blood off the tank before taking the photo.

 

Well.. @Adrian Gatter, the first aid paid off..looks good!

 

Thank you Maria.
Stay tuned, tomorrow is Scaping Day!!

 

Scaping is the best part, plus it goes well with a few beers!

 

Thank you Nico, I shall be consuming ales. Tomorrow is also an anniversary of a traumatic event for my family so we will be cleansing Youth Day with happiness and creativity

 

Sorry to hear about the past traumatic event. Life can be tough at like that. However, enjoy the day and the scaping.

 

Ja, life can be youghy

 

show da pics man .. or are you a midnight scaper when all the adults are asleep ?

 

Whoops!

 

Getting there man, family takes priority.
I will say this: It is impossible to arrange rocks in a natural pattern when the OCD is strong

 

Haha true that!!


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The kids weren't so happy with supper: