Marshalls saxon mocha loosing colour - Colour washed out

[msh paving]

i just had a issue with stonemarket,emailed dave sarti 20 mins later sorted, email them again phone marshalls ,no one will help you for the fun of it pester them every day till its sorted MSH

[Dave Jessop]

Hi just seen this thread. Please send me a PM with the details. Can't promise a 20 min resolution but will get the info to the correct team within the business.

Many apologies

[peterwa]

Hi All, just thought it best to give you an update, we finally had a visit form a rep from Marshalls, (no correspondence though!!) anyway, he turned up with the contractor (8th November) and had a look, i was at work so didnt get to say my piece!
anyway, they are going to try to clean the surface with a mild acid as he reckons it will bring the colour back??

anyone got any ideas? will this work, or are they clutching at straws?
he did say that if this didnt work, they would discuss with us what happens next. ???

[Tony McC]

I have severe reservations regarding acid washing of coloured concrete products, especially the paler colours. Sometimes it works; sometimes it completely alters the colour.

Acid literally eats away a few microns from the surface of the paving, and the hope is that it will reveal a pristine surface beneath. It's the standard remedy whenever paving is affected by discolouration or staining, but I reckons its success rate must be around 35-40%, and then there's the problem of how 'success' is defined. What some claim is a satisfactory result, others would not accept in a million years: it's all down to perception.

In your position, I'd want a written method statement which outlines just what work will be undertaken, by whom, when, how long it will take, any H&S requirements, a definition of what constitutes success, and a proposal for what will be done should it not achieve the desired results. I may be overly cynical but too many years in this trade has left me achingly cynical about verbal promises when it comes to remedial work. I work on the principle that, if the company has faith in its proposals, they should have no qualms about putting it in writing.

[GB_Groundworks]

just of note i have mentioned this before

when i was in hospital with my burns a diyer came in who had bought some of the professional brick acid of a guy in the pub, think it was 15% hydrochloric acid

he had tried to clean some bricks using it neat with washing up gloves on, hed carried on even though it was stinging and eaten through his gloves, long and short of it he lost the skin off his hands and his heart almost stopped from the chemical poisoning

i have been guiltty in the past of not giving it its due respect, i always had proper chemical gloves and eye protection but was unaware it causes calcium deficiency that can stop your heart. im not scare mongering i was on the ward with this idiot for a week.

[Mikey_C]

i was on the ward with this idiot for a week.

are you referring to him as an idiot because he is diy'er who didn't use ppe, because he didn't give the acid due respect, because he was just that type of person who is an idiot or some other reason?

[GB_Groundworks]

well his hands were wrapped in special bags with cream in them to protect them from the air and infections and heal and he bit through the bags, didnt tell the nurses till the next day then shrugged his shoulders when they asked him why. i had the bag onone hand and it was horrible but you do what the nurses tell you if you want to heal.

and buying acid of someone in the pub as well, not cleverest idea in a generic tub. took them a while to figure out what it was so they could treat him he brought the container with him was just in a 2ltr pop bottle!

[lutonlagerlout]

and why exactly where you in hospital giles?

ahh i remember ,throwing an aerosol onto a bonfire

A and E is full of darwin award candidates 24/7

LLL :;):

[GB_Groundworks]

haha it wasnt a burning fire to my defence only bit of newspaper smoulder, hittingit with the axe is where i went wrong haha

and yeah but least i left my bandages on, i should come up with some excuse like i was after the nurses haha

gi :p

[rab1]

Giles please dont take this the wrong way but as Tony stated, you were also in the hospital for being an arse, we`ve all done stupid things on site before mate it`s just you got injured.

Wanted to say this last night but held back. ???

[rab1]

you hit a pressurised container on a "fire" with an axe............ what in gods name were you thinking ??? ??? ?

[GB_Groundworks]

if you see my orginal post on it i was the one saying i was a fool, hence why i can laugh about it as above.

but better to advice people that spilling brick acid is a little more serious than you might think, i was aware of the seriousness of my injuries.

(rab ive abused my powers as a mod and banned you from the entire internet)

lol haha ive been on sites since i could walk, getting the p@ss ripped out of you is character building



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[rab1]

I`d ban me to, how are the injuries looking now ?.

[GB_Groundworks]

a. it wasnt on fire, id lit some news papers theyd gone out

b. i didnt aim at it. i was chopping kindling and cut through the branch with my sharp axe and continued on its axisin one hand and hit the can its sprayed paint all over me then the proppelent spread out and reached the smouldering news papers and whooshed into a 2m fireball. the can was a good 6 foot from the newspaper that i though had gone out 20 mins or so earlier.



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[rab1]

things you do to pull a nurse