Grating corrosion - Grating corrosion on block paved drive

[Andrea]

Well my letter did the trick in that the salesy chap came round. However exonerated himself saying he was waiting on me calling him... He might be busy but seems totally useless and doesn't understand customer service.

Anyway, took a while but just before christmas he delivered some new grating. I asked when someone was going to come round to fit it an he said he would get back to me...

Huh well that didn't happen, so I got the tape measure out and decided that I might get away with putting them in myself without having to cut any, not having an angle grinder to do so. And guess what with a little chipping away of residue concreate and banging they went in. Seem much better quality so lets wait and see.

Many thanks for your support and advice and a belated Happy New Year!

[lutonlagerlout]

another satisfied customer of the brew cabin
LLL
PS i bought the same drains as those a while back,they are £5 a metre cheaper than acos

[Dave_L]

Standard ACO A15 linear channels aren't much more than £5/m anyway!

[lutonlagerlout]

EEk!

we pay £15 per metre for acos and £10 for those yokes

where pray tell can you get acos (the proper resin and stainless steel ones mind) for £ 5 a metre?????

cheers LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

we get ours from burdens "the specialists" not sure they are that cheap though, the plastic 5 ton ones maybe 100mm

but the 150 ones are more and the sump boxes are like £50 for the 400mm or £70 for the 600mm if i remember correctly, anyone ever used the corners etc they are special order. better joint than a mitre with stihl saw etc.

[lutonlagerlout]

i only ever used 1 sump box and the old fella went garrity when he got the invoice,
i normally use a pea trap under a stihl cut hole now,it displeases my sense of aesthetics ,but £50 for a sump box is a joke
I have asked loads of times about corners etc but no one ever stocks them, so mitre it is
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

the big burdens depots generally carry them, i always use a sump box with the aco system stops the drain filling with crap,

done quiet a few fish shops now where we cut out existing concrete floor and install aco and sump round perimeter so they can hose off into them then clear out sump.

have to special order the the stainless steel grates, you think the sump boxes are expensive haha, £27 + vat per metre for just the grating haha

did the fish shops warehouse and gutting/filleting facility had to put 300 metres of aco in 250mm c35 slab. floor sawed the stuff then set about it with big bosch road breaker got about a metres cleared in a day.

cut a new door in one end got the 3cx inside the building with hammer on got it all out in a day. used 90 and T on that but again special order item.

i have in the past just cast my own swept corner with a 100mm fitting sliced apart to form the bottom of the channel then cast the sides in concrete and used the rails off the off cuts. was slow but looked nice in the finished white tiled shop.

[Tony McC]

We used a specialist grating in a cannery (where they pump lovely beer into tin cans) and from memory is was stainless steel and 116 quid per linear metre (58 quid per half-metre section). The plant was washed down with an aggressive chemical every 24 hours and so the flooring and the drainage channel had to be ultra-tough.

By the time the floor had been cut out under dust-sensitive conditions, the new channel installed, and then concrete repairs to the floor, it was costing close on 400 quid per linear metre.