Really useful site, I use it a lot to check out info
Name:
roger williamson E-Mail:
Comment:
1887
Monday April 23, 2007 - 09:13am
i have just happend onto your website what a great site all the imformation is clear and to the point well done i wish i had seen this site years ago when i think of all the slabs that i have laid and found them to rock and roll and had to relay them all oh my poor back !!!!
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allan E-Mail:
Town/City:
aberdeen, scotland
Via:
Google
Comment:
1886
Sunday April 22, 2007 - 10:18pm
thanks for the tips .excellent website. now knowing the content of the site i would have gladly paid for it.
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anup E-Mail:
Company:
IBP
Town/City:
DELHI, INDIA
Trade:
pETROL PUMP
Via:
Google
Comment:
1885
Saturday April 21, 2007 - 05:58pm
This is a great site i found for all my paving needs.
Came across your site by chance, the best thing to happen to me all week. What a welcome relief to have so many things put on one web site. It made my head stop spinning and gave me hope.Now all I have to do is put into practise what I have read. (Oh dear.)
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pat o'leary E-Mail:
Town/City:
Ireland
Comment:
1883
Friday April 20, 2007 - 07:55pm
Thanks for the info. Very generous of you to put up all this info, in such a clear and interesting way. 'Tar' very much........
Name:
Stuart Flowers
Town/City:
Leyland, Lancs UK
Trade:
Property refurbs.
Via:
Google
Comment:
1882
Thursday April 19, 2007 - 08:29pm
This is a brilliant site & very informative. Groundworks made easy! Thanks alot.
Name:
P BALLARD
Company:
PB BUILDING
Trade:
building
Comment:
1881
Thursday April 19, 2007 - 05:48pm
Fantastic site, full of the right information you require for your projects. Cracking Grommit
Great Site for both trade & diy. Informative & an intersesting read. Totally agree with the comment on Decking imprinted concrete paving....like...why ????
What a wonderful site, youdesrve all the recognition you are receiving. Great site keep it up
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Anne Parry
Town/City:
Sheffield, UK
Comment:
1878
Tuesday April 17, 2007 - 10:25am
Many thanks from a grateful amateur. I found your site googling "fan pattern". Brilliant! About 10 years ago I was given about old 50 setts of various sizes, most still with bitumen on them. Since then they've been a decorative part of the garden path to negotiate an awkward place. I've just bought some more to extend the 1/2 fan on a corner, hence the search, and was so pleased to find your site. This time, I'll lay them properly!
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Janet Curry E-Mail:
Town/City:
Witney, Oxon UK
Trade:
DIY'er
Via:
Google
Comment:
1877
Monday April 16, 2007 - 08:29pm
Tony, Thank you so much for putting together such a wonderful, informative and heart-wrenching (the 'obituary' and 'about us' bit) website. I can hardly believe I was able to find such a well informed site where information is freely given to help the likes of my husband and I. My husband is also a self employed skilled tradesman and like you and your father, works to the highest standards and is saddened when 'cowboys' give the industry a bad name. Finding a site like yours has restored our faith once again! Thank you so much. Janet
Name:
stephen mcgeachy E-Mail:
Company:
the cleaning master
Town/City:
bradford, yorkshire UK
Trade:
drive cleaning
Comment:
1876
Sunday April 15, 2007 - 07:30pm
marvelous web site
Name:
Jonathan Probets
Town/City:
Tiverton, Devon UK
Via:
Google
Comment:
1875
Friday April 13, 2007 - 01:10pm
What a great site - everything you need to check the quality of your work. Easy to use, well laid out, great diagrams and graphics. Perfect!!
Name:
Ray
Town/City:
Newport, IOW England
Via:
Google
Comment:
1874
Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 12:46pm
Thank you for the free advice, it was very helpful and very entertaining - I will certainly add this to my favourites
Name:
Soni
Company:
N/A
Town/City:
England
Trade:
Lift Industry
Via:
Alta Vista
Comment:
1873
Monday April 9, 2007 - 10:42am
I have just spent the last hour reading the introduction page explaining your family business and how it came about, about the loss of your dad, and also your own ill health. I found it very touching and shocking, especially the age at which you became ill, but also very interesting (don't mean that in a sick way), and i have NEVER bothered spending any time reading the introduction pages to a website before, as i tend to get board reading, so you must have done a ... good job capturing my interest for an hour! You are doing a cracking job Tony, and despite your disabilities and ill health, you have the knowledge to pass onto others and i'm sure every visitor to your forum is grateful for your hard work running this forum whereby providing them with much needed help and information for their own DIY projects. Don't give up mate, you are doing a fantastic job - keep it up PLEASE!
Name:
Rob E-Mail:
Town/City:
outhern England and Wales
Trade:
trade
Comment:
1872
Saturday April 7, 2007 - 04:37pm
Hi There, I should just like to say a few words on behalf of the manufacturers. For several years now I have been the trouble-shooter for two of the major block paving makers.When there have been serious efflorescence problems I have been called in after a proving delay of around 12 months to allow for maximum emergence. I treat extreme secondary staining to chamfers,etc with a small brush or spray atomiser,then wash the whole area with a mild HCl solution. The concentrations vary according to severity,weather conditions etc. My success rate is exceptionally high,and I have a catalogue of photo evidence.Those customers who are considering sealing their drives can do so with more confidence after a suitable delay,and chemical wash. It is also obviously good PR for the more enlightened manufacturers,and an interesting challenge for me. My area has stretched from Cornwall to Kent,and up as far as Derbyshire,so you will appreciate that the severest forms of staining are relatively rare.
Name:
John Francis
Town/City:
Woking, Surrey UK
Comment:
1871
Friday April 6, 2007 - 10:43am
Many thanks for a fabulously informative and helpful site.I had no knowledge of all this and your site has helped me check the quality of work and point out errors that my builder had made. He has been in the trade for 20+ years and successful but was still happy to do poor quality work and try to pull the wool over my eyes. There are still poor aspects of his work but it is not worth any further argument and I can now correct his errors with the knowledge I have gained from your site. Now have given up on finding somebody to pay and am doing the patio, soakaway and drive myself. I am even beginning to enjoy the manual labour, just!!
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Lee Sloan E-Mail:
Town/City:
Belvedere, Kent England
Comment:
1870
Wednesday April 4, 2007 - 03:40pm
Dear Tony - I have just read your Dad's Obituary and it made me cry - but as I said earlier I love your web site and think more women should read it!!!!
Name:
Dennis Leyhane E-Mail:
Town/City:
Ongar, Essex
Via:
Google
Comment:
1869
Wednesday April 4, 2007 - 12:15pm
Many thanks for the comprehensive information on damp proof courses. I moved into a new home only 5 months ago and we have rising damp in the conservatory. The dpc is only 1 brick high in places at the rear of the hpouse and the fall of the land is causing heavy rainwater and drainage to gather at the entry of the conservatory and seep through two air bricks. The information you have provided is much more comprehensive than anything I have on my local authority site or on the NHBC site. My housebuilder is trying to tell me that only 75mm below the dpc is necessary! Thanks again
