Recent work

[local patios and driveway]

Looks great injured, i notice you also install paving with darts.

[Injured]

Sometimes yes but it does depend on the job and what the customer wants. Well spotted. :rock:

[rimexboy]

Love the circle looks great, also I love the way Indian sandstone transforms when it's wet,

I've got it at home and when dry its great but when it's wet and Rainey out it really does bring the colours out...

[bodgeitandscarper]

I have to say that I don't like the random coursed on large jobs, those long straight lines and random flags don't seem to gel well together. Made even worse with the pointing colour!

Very tidy job though 1st class!

What the feck do I know, I'm just a glorified housewife! I haven't laid a slab for over a year

[bodgeitandscarper]

Is there somewhere incan look at britstands for free online?

Is there eckers like!

The standards are relatively expensive, around 120 quid apiece for the 12 parts of 7533, but half price if, like me, you are a member of the BS Institute. The money pays for the development work and updating but most of the technical committees work for nothing more than a desire to contribute to the knowledge base.

7533 is widely regarded as one of the finest pavement construction methodologies in the world and is used by many other countries as their national reference.

I often get students and chancers asking me to make copies of various standards for them, but not only is it a breach of copyright, it undermines the work that BSI tries to do. Most contractors do not need all 12 (soon to be 13) parts. Part 3 for block paving and part 4 for flags are usually enough.

As a student doing a HNC I was allowed access to the BSI website and could download any specification! Still have all the ones I needed for the course not much use now!

[GB_Groundworks]

on a funny one at mo

more NHS work at stepping hill hospital in stockport

new temporay ward for 1 year, this is the fire escape! it doesnt escape anywhere!

working to a spec, need to be done by tomorrow evening as MRI artic arriving and will go were we are working

ok, so the block work isnt ours, some other subbie, yes we burried two drains, i strongly advised against it but site manager, hospital guy just had us mark them on a plan

we had to wait for them to finish the block, 32 tons of mot in, 2 tons pea gravel, 7 tons grit sand

i laid 52x 600x600 today from 1pm till 5.30 when it went dark, good old trusty maul. got to finish fencing and flagging tomorrow do all the cuts,

excuse my new fish eye on my big camera






perfect job for the avant wishing we had it already











just before i left tonight busy day

[seanandruby]

i know you'll say ''don't be stupid.'' but musk ask the question .......is that a single skin retaining wall? I know daft question, of cours it is'nt, is it ??? :;):

[lutonlagerlout]

is that unbound sand for the laying course giles?
I know its old school but i always like a lick of cement in mine
good going though 52 sqaures
bet you wish you was on £20 a metre
LLL

[rimexboy]

It's a single skin I think as the NHS are trying to save money, that's a proper days collar, so has that all got to be removed in a year or so???

[Tony McC]

I have to say that I don't like the random coursed on large jobs, those long straight lines and random flags don't seem to gel well together.

It's more correctly known as transverse (or longitudinal) broken bond, depending on which way the courses are running.

[GB_Groundworks]

It's block laid flat behind then the last course is single skin, I've already knocked a few off just stepping off had to re bed them, I told the sunny to do it all laid flat.

Site agent must be 20 if that he hasn't got a clue he's got winkle pickers on!

Yeah it is tony, as per spec. Do you lay block paving on cbm? It's retained at all sides

The far side near the building is single skin but it's not both sides attacking as a bounce back for the gourneys.

Like I say it's a fire escape that doesn't go anywhere!



Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1359718207

[GB_Groundworks]

It's a single skin I think as the NHS are trying to save money, that's a proper days collar, so has that all got to be removed in a year or so???

Yeah, told them ill remove it for twice what we put it in for

[lutonlagerlout]

block paving is a flexible pavement,slabs are rigid giles
but i know scores of men that would never lay a council grey on anything but sand
they arent going to move are they?
nice tidy work anyway
LLL

[GB_Groundworks]

i just followed what it says on the main page....

all done and dusted another mamoth day

start on monday on a 540m2 concrete slab, full hit excavate, prep, pour 250mm to come out then 200mm stone back in,

im getting the stone for £8 a ton delivered as its 4 miles from the main cemex quarry and having 300 tons

[henpecked]

Whoa! Fish eye lens
If it was specified, its not you job to question (just charge accordingly for the correct job)
:p