New driveway - Looking for ideas

[cookiewales]

He is hoping to collect a few brownie points from what I've heard.

He mostly does commercial installations and therefore into the big stuff.

tidy work there caithness look top doller and that is proper type one being used what are they using for pointing patio :;): :;):

[47p2]

Hi cookie, they 're pointing the Caithness with Gftk vdw 800.

[cookiewales]

Hi cookie, they 're pointing the Caithness with Gftk vdw 800.

good choice will be a top job :;): :;):

[mickg]

nice job 47p2

[GB_Groundworks]

i like the cut of their jib

and a nice selection of plant albeit hired in, like the look of the mini jcb loadall

[Injured]

The cells are wrapped in visqueen, the ground is heavy clay. There is an outlet pipe at one end that feeds the water into the trees area in the garden. The cells act as a large storage tank, being able to handle flood rains if we have a downpour, then it slowly feeds out to the trees.

That's the theory and if it doesn't work Marshalls top drainage guy in Glasgow is to blame

Ok thanks for that.

Cant wait to see the job finished as already stated it does look top notch work.

Good choice for the pointing too.

[47p2]

Thanks for the encouraging comments guys. They started laying block today, I would have taken pictures but there is so much block lying on top of the block that a picture would have been wasted.

More updates tomorrow

[irishpaving]

Are ou putting anything around the edge of the raised patio area 47

[47p2]

Are ou putting anything around the edge of the raised patio area 47

Not sure yet irish, the height is about 1 metre from the ground and only me and 'The Boss' in the house now. We are putting decking at the french doors and it will require some sort of restraint.

I'm open to ideas about something round the patio, I don't want the usual cast concrete bollards so if anyone can advise on anything different I would like to hear.


I did see in the Marshalls book some rails which might add a bit of a modern touch.


it was the Ferrocast range



and also the Sineu Graff range

[Dave_L]

Looks expensive, but nice!!

[47p2]

Looks expensive, but nice!!

That was my thought. I'm waiting on a price ???

[47p2]

12" of type 1 was put in over the drainage tank and compacted down, 8" over the rest of the yard so things shouldn't move once we start using the driveway. On Tuesday the supervisor asked me what pattern I wanted for the blockwork, he suggested they lay the jumper blocks (the largest ones) randomly (easier for them) but I had other ideas because of the size of the area. I showed them what I wanted and they were horrified as they had never seen on done that pattern before and it took them a while to get into the swing of it.

Blockwork was started yesterday and things are starting to come together, all aqua in the rear yard are laid.
The lines have still to be tightened up and tomorrow the sand will go down on the first blocked area and it will be completed

[Dave_L]

Nice job, looks like a busy site!

[47p2]

Sometime it is busy Dave, other times I feel like giving them a kick up the a$$



Things are starting to take shape now. More Caithness went down on the patio area, the first lot of block has been whacked and sanded, aqua channel cover bolted on and another 20 tonnes of hardcore put down at the other end of the garage.

[Injured]

looking good I do like the way the jumper blocks break it up.