Hello again,
I have already asked a couple of questions, Thankyou for your superb support.
We are block paving the front of our house for car standing, a joint project with our next door neighbours. The houses adjoin so the paving will be continuous across the front of the 2. We intend to mark the middle boundary by patterning the blocks accordingly, but my question is, is it neccessary to concrete these in. We do not intend moving or taking them up again, but there will be new people eventually, and if they want to take their side up, there would need to be a retaining edge for the remaining one. We obviously cannot haunch, as this would interfere with the run of bricks, so if it is neccessary, how do you do it?
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It's not necessary to have the marker line concreted-in, but, as you've already noted, having a fixed edge of sorts would be useful just in case one or other resident decides at some future date to rip and redo.
The simplest answer is for the marker course to be laid on a bed of concrete but not haunched. If you intend having a straight marker line, similar to an edge course, this is not too much of a problem, but if you simply plan to insert an alternatively coloured block into the pattern at the point nearest the boundary line, then it becomes more problematic, and, to be honest, I wouldn't bother with the concrete: I'd just lay as normal and if it ever does come to a situation where one neighbour wants to change the arrangement, then the other will simply have to endure what will, after all, be relatively minor inconvenience for a day or so while a new edge is created.
The simplest answer is for the marker course to be laid on a bed of concrete but not haunched. If you intend having a straight marker line, similar to an edge course, this is not too much of a problem, but if you simply plan to insert an alternatively coloured block into the pattern at the point nearest the boundary line, then it becomes more problematic, and, to be honest, I wouldn't bother with the concrete: I'd just lay as normal and if it ever does come to a situation where one neighbour wants to change the arrangement, then the other will simply have to endure what will, after all, be relatively minor inconvenience for a day or so while a new edge is created.