Recent work

RAPressureWashing · Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:39 pm

sy76uk wrote:Fantastic job Roger. How long doesn't it take for black limestone to go grey like that?

It shouldn't go back to the complete Grey, but you do need to re-do the colour enhancing process yearly to keep it Black, the paving will be sealed but depending on weather IE sun/UV damage etc it can start to lighten up after around 10 months Black Limestone seems to be the worst for holding it's colour in my experience.

RAPressureWashing · Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:17 pm

Another Black Limestone patio, this one not in good shape, the before photo show how after 2-3 attempts to re-point the paving is how the paving company left the surface for our customer. The 2nd photo is the paving rid of all the cement that was left on the surface & ready for sealing. And the last photo is the surface colour enhanced & sealed. Not much I could do with the pointing as there is 2-3 different types used and really does look like it was bodged up just to get it finished. I did feel sorry for the home-owners, they are happy just to get the paving minus the pointing they had hoped for after I'd finished.

The removal of the cement stained paving ending up taking 2 days to get it to the steel grey finish I wanted, (I had to acid etch this one) so to get a blank unmarked canvas so I could start sealing.

sy76uk · Post: # 105744Post **sy76uk** Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:37 am

That looked a nightmare job to tackle.
Can't have been easy to get rid of the pointing stains.
Very good results.

RAPressureWashing · Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:43 pm

sy76uk wrote:That looked a nightmare job to tackle.
Can't have been easy to get rid of the pointing stains.
Very good results.

It was 2 days to clean/remove around 40 sq mts worth. It would normally take a day or under, but this one was a bit of a mess.

Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:38 am

Little Saturday job for us yesterday http://youtu.be/7nKhha2qIwU

Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:56 pm

nice work Giles
LLL

DNgroundworks · Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:17 pm

Rodger....do you ever re-point? or does the customer get the patios re-pointed that you clean?

DNgroundworks · Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:21 pm

Nice video giles!

New truck in the background?

RAPressureWashing · Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:17 pm

DNgroundworks wrote:Rodger....do you ever re-point? or does the customer get the patios re-pointed that you clean?

No I don't re-point my pointing skills ain't that good, I have people I can recommend to customers if they need, or some say they have their own people going to do the re-pointing.

Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:27 pm

had the truck about 2 years now

stripped and tidied up today

Â£1m regenerative thermal oxidiser going on it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_thermal_oxidizer

Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:54 am

its weird ,you never see a level on anything unless its spot on :;):
LLL

lemoncurd1702 · Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:26 am

lutonlagerlout wrote:its weird ,you never see a level on anything unless its spot on :;):
LLL

.... or there's meant to be a fall.

mickg · Post: # 106202Post **mickg** Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:26 am

ha ha I thought the same Tony

nice work though Giles

Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:57 pm

too right there was only one 1800mm flat bit on the entire slab took ages to find it

DempseyLiverpool · Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:05 pm

Top work Giles