Recent work

[sy76uk]

Block paving for me is the best earner with the least hassle.
I don't think it's the best value for the customer. CPB has got a 10 year life before it needs replacing.
A good natural stone drive is there till you get bored, or die.

[lutonlagerlout]

yes but when people have a choice ; kitchen or swanky drive,they generally go for the swanky kitchen and do the drive cheaply,not everyone of course or you guys wouldnt be so busy!
LLL

[sy76uk]

That's true. Especially for the people that are completely renovating.
By the time they get round to the gardens money's low.
I had one bloke show me the wet room in a bungalow he'd renovated for his elderly mother in law and he was boasting about the shower head head he spent a grand on only to start trying to knock me down when I told him the patio he wanted would cost him 3 grand :rock:

[lemoncurd1702]

Going back a few years a customer mentioned to me "when pricing the job, remember there's a recession on".
Just as I was finishing the job at the beginning of March he turns up in a brand new SLK.

I didn't take the recession into account, I knew I'd get the job anyway. I've done work for him before and since.
He's a tidy guy and gave me and the lads a nice bonus.
It just pissed me off that he said that and then turns up in a new Merc.

Someone said to me once "buyers are liars".

[sy76uk]

Every customer and his dog tried it on in recession time.
There are plenty of neglected gardens due to that recession that need attending to now it's over though

[rxbren]

And most people don't want to pay

[sy76uk]

Don't know if anyone's seen the finished pictures of the brick paving job i've just finished yet.
I posted them up in other paving.
http://ext.pavingexpert.com/cgi-bin....y112207

[Forestboy1978]

Don't know if anyone's seen the finished pictures of the brick paving job i've just finished yet.
I posted them up in other paving.
http://ext.pavingexpert.com/cgi-bin....y112207

Looks fantastic mate. By god doesn't that lawn need re turfing now though haha. It's like a stain on your masterpiece.

[Forestboy1978]

What do you think?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh....9a?dl=0

[Dave_L]

One or two jobs recently

Roundabout widening/adjustments at M5 J27 with Grasscrete GC2 with 393 reinforcement

[Dave_L]

Road resurfacing to an access roadway to shared properties



New build driveway and crossover surfacing work

[Dave_L]

Lots of sub-contract machine lay work locally



Vehicle crossover construction work, currently very busy with this work!

[GB_Groundworks]

the grasscrete negatives what they made out of polystyrene then melt them with petrol like you would with bolt boxes?

[Forestboy1978]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/co29227ervnv ... r7w3a?dl=0

[lutonlagerlout]

tidy work there Forest,what is your real name mate,seems odd calling you forrest all the time?
cheers LLL
tony