a job after my own heart mark
acrows and genie lifts great bits of kit
strong boys a waste of space IME,I have used them but would rather needle a wall,with strong boys the acrows are too close to easily get the steels in position
hard work cutting those blues mark,if the gap is that tight we sometimes dry pack,you shutter 1 side then pack sharp sand/cement into the void ,used that technique for 2 months on the french embassy and its still standing
LLL
Them blues are not blues...they are slate fireplace surround 35mm thick,we had it proped on the in side joists with 2 acrows,
started with a acrow and strongboy,but took it out to slide steel in,as there is such a huge bit of steel in font and a solid wall with the joists proped taking load,20 mins and steel was in,
never saved bricks compo was to hard broke the bricks,new house is being built from arundall old chelsea yellow stock by ibstock (planners choice)
the new build is due to terrace being bombed in ww2..........
MSH
been doing disabled ramps the last 2 weeks
bit of a ballbreaker as they have to be hand dug ,and this one faces on to a dual carriageway so nothing can get close.
the bottom line is an 82 year old lady can probably see her days out at home rather than in a care prison
ramp has to be 1200 wide with minimum 100mm upstands,fall no more than 1:12 and a 1200 square rest area every 5m
a work around to the flush threshold problem,air bricks have been lifted and linear drains installed around perimeter
ready for railings
dug out the next one today and concreted 450 by 600 slabs as upstands
my back is rather warm,dont think i would like to lay council slabs all the time
cheers LLL :;):
only thing that maybe you could add, is a sett or paver detail around the paving,to kind of finish the edge
I dont like to see cuts to a free edge,although I have done it myself many times
what is the pointing? easipoint sandstone?
LLL
only thing that maybe you could add, is a sett or paver detail around the paving,to kind of finish the edge
I dont like to see cuts to a free edge,although I have done it myself many times
what is the pointing? easipoint sandstone?
LLL
You can't really see it in that photo but the fence and the shed are in really bad shape. The shed has a massive bulge in one half and it is sunk in the second half so it is like an S in the side. The fence is all over the place too. Went with a softer edge so the crappy shed and fence didn't take away from the patio.
At the back I put up the arch for customer and he is going to put up a couple of trellis. The panel is raised because it is going to hide 2 sheds up the back of the garden, the bottom of the panel is going to be hidden by some planters that customer is building.
I tried to stick to the bigger flags for the cuts at the free edge, laid all the edge pieces with SBR though.
Will post more later, got to load on gas bottles now.
carberry, i could see you didn't have any straight boundaries,or even right angles,but I hate to see shingle laid around flags or slabs
you have done some very tasty flag and block laying there ,with loads of cuts all done dead straight,
but then a border of shingle,that looks like a "french drain"
look like there is enough room round most of that for a single block paver detail ,100mm wide
cheers LLL
Yeah, Scottish term for dashing. The bits that I did first are a wee bit patchy, the bits that I did last look pretty good. You only notice it when you're up close though.
Getting coping and caps, just waiting on them being made. Customer has chosen some local guy to make some concrete ones up, I preferred Steve's suggestion of some nice yorkstone. I like the finish and what he has chosen is nice but it is overkill for the area. I don't think the coping will look right with the railing and that the caps are too big for the piers but it isn't my house.
The narrowest the border goes is about 150mm so there is enough room for a nice border, it may come later on next year. The fence in back garden and front garden are getting replaced, both by customer and he is going to build a double gate out of teak to go between patio and driveway.
At the back of the garden he is talking about some crazy paving next year to go between the sheds that he is going to build.
