What a wonderful site! I was so daunted at tackling my garden and then I found this site thank you for clear and precise instructions that a total novice (like me) can understand!
Name:
tony Ireland
Company:
Retired
Town/City:
Birkenhead, Merseyside UK
Trade:
DIY
Comment:
2187
Wednesday May 6, 2009 - 10:18pm
Fantastic ! Now I know where I have been going wrong.. My first attempt at paving many years ago must have been a case of beginners luck. Recent efforts have been disappointing, but I now have the confidence to try again. Great to see such realistic paractical guidance, rather than sites that are just trying to sell something.
Name:
Don Lucey
Company:
Danish Refugee Council
Town/City:
Sudan
Trade:
Advisor
Via:
Alta Vista
Comment:
2186
Wednesday May 6, 2009 - 10:08am
Very useful adn easy to use website.
Name:
Barry
Town/City:
Bookham, Surrey UK
Trade:
retired
Comment:
2185
Tuesday May 5, 2009 - 03:07pm
what a brilliant site; packed with sensible information, clear and beautifully written. Thanks!
Name:
Paul Baker
Town/City:
Coventry, England
Comment:
2184
Tuesday May 5, 2009 - 09:50am
Enthusiastic DIY'er! Well worth finding the site and spending 40mins. learning how to do it properly before starting job. Will strongly recommend you to friends. Thanks!
Name:
Alexander Baum E-Mail:
Town/City:
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire United Kingdom
Comment:
2183
Monday May 4, 2009 - 03:59pm
Thanks for a brilliant site, really has been a great help.
Name:
roy jacobs E-Mail:
Via:
Google
Comment:
2182
Saturday May 2, 2009 - 09:37am
Excellent site, by far the best in its category. Top marks for the time and effort expended and advice freely given.
This is an excellent site and has beenm bvery useful to our technical staff. We have used your recommendations extensivekly in the telecoms industry and for a disabled access project we have been running with a major clearing Bank.
Name:
Stuart
Town/City:
Spain
Via:
Google
Comment:
2180
Monday April 27, 2009 - 04:35pm
What a top site! Love the humourous anecdotes.
Name:
gill forrester
Comment:
2179
Sunday April 26, 2009 - 02:10pm
I have just been reading the pages on cleaning stone flags, etc. Not only are they very informative but they are highly amusing! I will definately keep you in my 'favourites' for future reference and should I feel like a good read! Thanks for some Sunday-morning humour, Gill Forrester
Your site is an excellent resource which I have used myself both for private and work related queries. I often refer builders and private individuals to your site for clear and useful guidance. Thank you very much for the time you have taken to create and maintain this valuable reference material.
Name:
Stuart Allan
Comment:
2174
Tuesday April 21, 2009 - 08:42pm
Found this site answered all my drainage questions in one go. Highly Recommended and Thank you.
Name:
Trev E-Mail:
Town/City:
Albany, Australia Australia
Trade:
Brickpaver
Via:
Google
Comment:
2173
Saturday April 18, 2009 - 06:41pm
Nice to see how things are done over your side of the world. I've been a successful brickpaver for 20 years now. It's good Hard work no matter where you live, and a very satisfying job. To put a smile on a home owners face and knowing your work will be there for ever is a good feeling. If your good at what you do you will never be out of work. As setup and screeding is the most important part of paving it was interesting to see your section on screeding. For my screed bars, I call them plates, I use 2 strips of stainless 1.6m long x 100mm wide x .6mm thick. I use 80 x 40mm aluminium screeds of various sizes 3m, 2m, 1.2m to set up with to required hieghts and falls then place plates on ground and screed of them. no need to dig in your screed bars and then to fill in the holes left by them. plates are flexible and ideal for rolling over mounds etc. TIP. If your base looks good your pavers will look good, so spend the time on the prep work. I work on do it right and to last the first time, that is why I,m told I'm Albanys Best Brickpaver, which makes the hard work worth while. I guess you could call me a Pavingexpert, but I wouldn't, I'm just a dude doing what I do. Trev.
Name:
Jane Shorney E-Mail:
Company:
-
Trade:
-
Comment:
2172
Friday April 10, 2009 - 09:05pm
You must have worked for many, many weeks to develop such a well thought out, well linked and above all HELPFUL site. I can read it like a book! This is when the Internet is a blessing. Thank you very much.
Name:
Andy E-Mail:
Town/City:
Copthorne, West Sussex
Comment:
2171
Monday April 6, 2009 - 10:55pm
Plan and simply Thank you
Name:
Chris Green E-Mail:
Company:
Private
Town/City:
Stourbridge, West Midlands UK
Trade:
Project Manager (Surfacing)
Via:
Google
Comment:
2170
Thursday April 2, 2009 - 01:33pm
Interesting site and business history and indeed ethos. Sorry to read of the loss of your Father and of your accident and subsequent illness. One point I would add in relation to minimum falls for asphalt/macadam paving is that the minimum recommended falls are 2.5% on the crossfall and 0.8% on the long fall. Tar, by the way is the residual product of the former Town Gas industry and not naturally arising unlike Pitch and Lake Asphalt. Tar was a very carcinagenic material and therefore dangerous. Tar was replaced as a binder with bitumen during the 70s. Tar bound materials were a swine to lay because in the winter you could hardly get the stuff out of the lorry and in the summer it would take ages to 'cure' and required hours of back-rolling. It was all down to the EVT or viscosity. Not too sorry it went out of production! Regards, Chris Green
Name:
mick dunne
Town/City:
ilkley, w.yorks uk
Via:
Google
Comment:
2169
Friday March 27, 2009 - 11:32pm
hi, not a big project by some standards but it's got to be right. thank heavens for your site,it's a gold mine of plain speaking and excellent information.thanks loads. mike dunne
