Hello All
Back in February of this year, Mother in Law had Tarmac laid over her existing concrete drive way.
The contractor made an error in calculating the ammount of tarmac required and consequently we have ended up with a drive five inches thick.
The job was done so badly, that we insisted he return to effect remedial works, in which he employed a professional to put right what was in effect a driveway that sloped to the left and right and undulated all the way down the drive.
It turns out that the original tarmac contractor was a joiner who did this as a sideline! The drive now looks flat but the biggest problem is that it is soft, we cannot put a chair on it and sit down as it sinks into the drive. the wheelie bins have created indents in the tarmac , as does the odd plant pot.
This is still occuring 6 months after it being laid.
Any suggestions would be gratly appreciated.
Soft tarmac
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Dave_L
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Rip it up and start again!
If the quarries restricted tarmac supply to professionals only, it would stamp out this very type of problem.
Must have been a very costly mis-calculation both for your Mother-in-Law and the bloke himself! I'd love to have watched him do the job, realising he'd over-ordered!!
If the quarries restricted tarmac supply to professionals only, it would stamp out this very type of problem.
Must have been a very costly mis-calculation both for your Mother-in-Law and the bloke himself! I'd love to have watched him do the job, realising he'd over-ordered!!
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lutonlagerlout
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thats why personal recommendation is always the best course for building works, you can also ask your local council for a list of approved contractors ( i am on luton's list) which should mean at least the work will be competent.
i am going to take some pictures of a drive i priced 2 years ago and lost out by £200,which i refused to drop,its now going to cost the bloke £600 to put right.
thats showbiz folks!
LLL
i am going to take some pictures of a drive i priced 2 years ago and lost out by £200,which i refused to drop,its now going to cost the bloke £600 to put right.
thats showbiz folks!
LLL
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LLL - did you get those pictures?
It's quite "gratifying" [is that the right word??] to see a job go wrong when somebody else has undercut you by that amount - we've seen it too. We always have a gawp at the tarmac surface that is ripping up at the property we lost out to by £300ish when we pass by!
It's quite "gratifying" [is that the right word??] to see a job go wrong when somebody else has undercut you by that amount - we've seen it too. We always have a gawp at the tarmac surface that is ripping up at the property we lost out to by £300ish when we pass by!
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Dave L
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bobhughes wrote:It's called schaddenfreude Dave
Haha Bob - I had to go and look that one up!!! :p
Schadenfreude
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–noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.
[Origin: 1890–95; < G, equiv. to Schaden harm + Freude joy]