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Post: # 77854Post Dave_L

lutonlagerlout wrote:resin acos for £6 quids???
pull the other one dave
£6.98+VAT for resin Aco A15 Raindrains, just checked what we paid last time.
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All internal drainage complete & tested, external drainage to first i/c complete.

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Heaved 75t of 803 in Friday pm, 48t on site Monday AM to complete. Compaction and then blinding, membrane, then ready for pump & 'crete Thursday.

Just got home from a morning on site digging in a 100mm perf pipe behind the wall, granular backfill and level ready for brickies.

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Weather has dried up now thank god, site was a right shitpit. But we had the best drying room anyone could wish for, the boilerhouse!

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Post: # 77858Post lutonlagerlout

if you pay that dave fair play
as a big civils firm you probably get preferential rates
i have never paid less than £10 even for the fake acos,and more like £13 for the aco branded ones
hagg the client wants tegula herringbone @45 deg which suits me fine, i did the reinstatement with 6 bags of hanson tarmac in a bag
got zero confidence in it but the client wanted it done
i spoke to ashphalt express in luton and they would sell me .5 tonne for £60 + £25 part load fee +£80
straight off the street nothing special required
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Believe it or not I buy at that rate through our local Buildbase Tone. Keyline albeit matched it with their Wavin (?) channels but I don't like those, they have a stupid nib that means you can't but them up to an existing pavement without a dog ugly gap, whereas the Aco ones you can.

I notice Aco have changed the design of the A15 galvanised grids too. Not quite as chunky/ugly as before. Shinier (lol) and thinner, better looking and just as strong.
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Nice tip cookie found plastic express they are cheap and do the job plastic types... But you have to cut the nib off the plastic lock first or it ruins you bed trying to lay them!
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P.s LLL you have installed 50 soak always on this thread alone stop digging you muck savage!!!
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Post: # 77869Post lutonlagerlout

probably about right plastics express are cheap on a lot of things but my bloke ivel building supplies beats them on some stuff
mickg converted me from resin to plastic drains and long term i feel they do look better
everything i do and think about doing,i think
what will this be like in 10 years?
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Post: # 77871Post haggistini

Mickg has a very good eye for detail and I agree . I borrowed some
black paint today off big site to paint the gully on my recent private driveway I'm sad but it's the little touches that count !!!
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Post: # 77893Post DNgroundworks

LLL, i when i need a tonne or so of bitmac i buy it through my buildbase account and rock up at the tarmac plant with my ifor williams trailer, a few layers of old carpets chucked over and pinned down, and all is good! I dont do much tarmac mind and im probably paying way more than i should but the "mac in a sack" stuff is absolute crap IMO.

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Post: # 77894Post mickg

so basically what your saying Dan is if you have a 75mm - 100mm strip by 4 metres wide you would buy a ton of tarmac when all you need is 2 tubs of instarmac at a cost of approx £40 what will be rock hard in a couple of days tops

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Up against a wall yes I'd say the tubbed stuff would be OK but for anything more than that use the proper stuff.
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Post: # 77903Post mickg

i did the reinstatement with 6 bags of hanson tarmac in a bag


only just seen this Luton

the tarmac in the bags off hanson is not made for the situation you have used it in and is only suitable for going round lamp posts or similar patching where no one will walk on it or be able to drive over it as it takes months to go hard, there is no literature saying this on the bags and I had to get it faxed over from hanson

I had to bite the bullet about 18 months ago and remove over 10 bags and replace with the stuff in the tubs as 3 weeks later it was still soft
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Post: # 77909Post lutonlagerlout

the client wanted summat done there and then
so needs must
wacked it over 8 times and still soft as shite
plant is shut on saturday but i did what i was asked
long term it needs to be done right but hey ho! lets see what happens
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Post: # 77912Post DNgroundworks

Mick, no im not saying that, all im saying is that you can go into a tarmac plant and get 1 tonne, ive actually bought .5 tonne before, just saying that they will deal with you but through your buildbase account....thats all.

Also said "when i need a tonne".....

The stuff you mention Mick is, as ive heard pretty good, the stuff in bags is shite....like i said

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Post: # 77916Post lutonlagerlout

my bad
the client wanted something in over the weekend
if it proves shite i will replace before the job is done
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