Block paving - Block paving

[haggistini]

any close ups of that huge drive giles and is that a monument in the back garden! and if your taking the photo whos flying the god dam plane ..aaaaahhhhhhh :0

[GB_Groundworks]

Yeah there on mynladt few weeks in pictures it's red Tarmac not block though. No it's just a little rickety the guy wanted against our advice. Our mate took them out his helicopter.

[henpecked]

Our mate took them out his helicopter.

Sheesh!
:O :O

[lutonlagerlout]

i have read this page no end and im still strugling to understand it

http://www.pavingexpert.com/setout05.htm

holy moly EEK!
better off getting a chipie to cut you an arch former out of ply
i really wish i had listened in design technology at school
LLL

[digerjones]

the first drive i block paved in 1987 we used scaffold poles for screed bars,roughly 60-75mm of sand
mind you it was 90 mm blocks in those days
cheers LLL

i still use scaffold bars for screeding off. i just cut the 4''x2'' screed bar to suit. i have done 4 drives on this estate and yes all 60mm eaton brindle with charcoal boarder.
think i asked the question before i did this drive, how to screed when you have different gradiants going in different directions. think we decided freehand was the only way.

[digerjones]

i hope you can't see my wireless
and yes lll more free hand curves. if you were doing radius like it says on the main site, wonder what difference going up a gradiant be to a curve, perhaps none.

[lutonlagerlout]

i thought the latest thinking is that 50mm+ of sand is way too much
I have been using 22 mm electrical conduit for 5 years now approx 25-35mm of sand finished

maybe its my bricklaying background, where we always use arch formers for arches,but i am not keen on freehand arcs or wiggles as i see them :;):

jeez some inset covers on that drive dylan

LLL

[digerjones]

i thought the latest thinking is that 50mm+ of sand is way too much
I have been using 22 mm electrical conduit for 5 years now approx 25-35mm of sand finished

maybe its my bricklaying background, where we always use arch formers for arches,but i am not keen on freehand arcs or wiggles as i see them :;):

jeez some inset covers on that drive dylan

LLL

i cut out my screeding timber to give me 30mm sand, there were 2 more inset covers on the top, 5 in total, some work there. the manholes were a right pain, they were concrete oblong rings, had to corbal them in to sit the trays on[the hole was bigger than the resessed manhole cover ], you can imagine the ones on the front were a right pain.