Granite setts

[specialbranch]

Looking for a bit of advice from you guys. I am starting a 200m2 reclaimed granite sett driveway next week We are fine with the laying of the setts have a program set out so should go smoothly and have three casuals in next week coursing them out and crating them up at our yard. We need to install some drainage to the front of the property there is currently a Galv topped aco drain but I wondered if there is anything abit more traditional out there? any ideas? also need to know the quickest and and neatest way to point them. My initial idea was to brush in a strongish 4:1 semi dry sceerd to within 2 inch of the surface (they are roughly 6/8inch deep) and then use a flowable product easipoint or similar to top them up, dont realy fancy using pitch. Any other tips to speed the job up would be greatly appreciated.

[lutonlagerlout]

cookie or setts are the men to advise you ,but i think easipoint would cost an arm and a leg
pitch is a fail
LLL

[specialbranch]

The cost isnt really an issue with this one I just need the best possible finish to the pointing and need to get it done as quickly as possible. The job is for the next door neighbour to our yard and will be a great job to show our clients. In the past I have just hand pointed with a good strong mortar but on this scale it would tie up too many men in our busiest period.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

what setts are they special

[DNgroundworks]

Why is pitch a fail tony? what about gftk vdw 800? been using it this week awesome stuff.

[Pablo]

acco and Clarkdrain do channels with cast iron grates that are inkeeping with stone paving. Cookie has installed some on that cheshire job he's on with haggi. They look like deep 252's from Clarkedrain. Your quickest pointing would be the like of Romex but it'll be super pricey for 200m. 3:1 slurry with a large squad mixing and spreading would be the cheapest and is easy if you've done it before and would only take a day.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

easipoint granatech is a very strong product ,but costly.belt cleaner is quickest way of cleaning setts mainly used on fine picked though etc

[specialbranch]

what setts are they special

They are mixed pink blue and white granite reclaimed from a street in Leeds. We have looked for miles around to find some really high quality setts with no luck then found some in the corner of a field half a mile from our yard. The farmer saved them from being chucked 20 years ago and just made himself a nice few grand!. All clean as a whistle with good faces. All roughly 8" x 4" on the face and 6" deep. Were not doing anything fancy with the laying pattern just some stone setts as a soldier course then coursed granite.

[ilovesettsonmondays]

smooth face or rough

[cookiewales]

clarke or aco do a cast iron top there good slurry pointing 4 to 1 give me a call will talk you through it

[specialbranch]

Finally got started this week, we have decided to try easipoints flowable sett point im laying alone with 2 labourers so its steady away but getting neater an quicker as i go along. getting through around 12m2 a day at the moment but my partner should be dropping onto it next week so should pick up.


70ton of setts dumped in our yard, got a couple of students coursing them out on the van, pressure washing then coursing out on the job which is next door.


we went for the aco channels with the ductile grate. the old block paving is being palleted and were going to use it in our yard this winter.


We're reusing the 100mm of mot type one from under the block paving then laying on 100mm of C25 semi dry.

[cookiewales]

nice setts and work where did you buy from :;):

[lutonlagerlout]

nice work special branch
LLL

[rab1]

as above, nice looking work.