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Dave_L
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Spent all week digging a service trench for a new build/barn conversion. Gas and Electric, 850mmm down, digging through some extremely tough and stony ground under the old main road into our local town.

On the home stretch now, but we have had some fun along the way.........in the form of a broken water pipe......there was just no way of avoiding it.....just glad we didn't knock off any of the ferrules on the 6" water main we seemed to follow up through our dig perfectly! If you wanted to follow the main, there would be no way of doing it, sodding typical!

And we got very wet on Monday with the general rain....

General excavation
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40mm HP Gas main laid in
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Gas main and power cable covered with limestone 'dust'
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And then topped up with layers of 6F2 (Type1) and whacked down leaving 110mm for tarmac layers
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This is how close we ended up to the 6" water main.....
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Stuarty
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Post: # 20233Post Stuarty

Heh very lucky you didnt howk up that main. Why does it seem, of every job ive taken a pic of, and seem to see on this site, theres usually someone standing about with a brush lol
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All done and reinstated now, that was hard work yesterday surfacing it up in the pouring rain. Didn't need much water in the roller!!
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Post: # 20359Post lutonlagerlout

someone has to hold the yard brush up stuarty!
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Hey! Our yard brush never leaves the yard!! :)
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Post: # 20363Post Dave_L

Stuarty wrote:theres usually someone standing about with a brush lol
We're a tidy working bunch, you know! Man with the brush is Glenn, ex-Wessex Water :)
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