Recent work

[lutonlagerlout]

looks like you nailes it giles
well done
LLL

[dig dug dan]

job finished today. gravel spread, site left tidy.

[Dave_L]

You just know where all that gravel is going to end up.............

[dig dug dan]

Indeed , you would have thought highways would have said they cannot do it, but they are fine. Just waiting for them to do the crossover now.

[lutonlagerlout]

does that gate open on to a metre drop?
love the wall, but copings?
its a vast improvement on what they had but sometimes you wish the client would dig that little bit deeper for the extra touches
still very nice work Dan
LLL

[dig dug dan]

yes that gate does indeed drop onto a metre. they wanted it for "future" use.
The wall. Well spotted. originally i was going to finish with brick on edge. Customer wanted to plant lavender in the hollow concrete blocks, so we just brought the last course of brick work up to hide the block work.
never seen this done before, but if thats what they want.
We made sure the concrete came to just under the bottom of the top block.
Will go back when its planted to see what it looks like

[GB_Groundworks]

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[GB_Groundworks]

nice bit of close board, made a big difference, clients biggest problem on jobs

whats the bit of old concrete by the bt post?

couldnt you have filled the bit on high way side of the pin kerbs with some asphalt? be it repair mac or slipped a patching crew a tenner

i know its not your work but is the lower front wall your fence is on leaning towards the road? looks that way.



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[TheRockConcreting]

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The two lads finishing the slab have made a huge school boy error, as many others do, they only ran the power trowels in one direction on the floor, you need to crisscross the direction to get the best flat finish. Sorry but omg, so simple.

[dig dug dan]

whats the bit of old concrete by the bt post?

couldnt you have filled the bit on high way side of the pin kerbs with some asphalt? be it repair mac or slipped a patching crew a tenner

i know its not your work but is the lower front wall your fence is on leaning towards the road? looks that way.

well spotted giles. Highways ahve insisted some sort of barrier remain to protect the pole (£20,000 to move it!), and we were going to do a brick wall there. Customer decided to leave this in place, and wants us to render it! We told him its leaning (the fence is bolted to it, its upright) but he doesn't seem to mind.
there is a concrete post from the old chainlink at the other end of it.
As for the tarmac, its being ripped up for the crossover next week, so no point in wasting time and money on a patch!

[GB_Groundworks]

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The two lads finishing the slab have made a huge school boy error, as many others do, they only ran the power trowels in one direction on the floor, you need to crisscross the direction to get the best flat finish. Sorry but omg, so simple.

I took my camera down when I left at 8pm they left at 5am

But for 30 year specialist concrete finishers I wasn't impressed I've powerfloated a few slabs with hand ones and got close to their finish.

There were still dips and the odd boot depression!!

They were from Birmingham came as part of the concrete package, but and it's a big but the project manager is very pleased with it.

And senior management are even more pleased got me pricing another £25k of work

Noted though rock for next time

[Dave_L]

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The two lads finishing the slab have made a huge school boy error, as many others do, they only ran the power trowels in one direction on the floor, you need to crisscross the direction to get the best flat finish. Sorry but omg, so simple.

Same applies to a large-area bitmac surface too.

[msh paving]

what happened to the mesh? MSH

[GB_Groundworks]

They put it in as they go 60 big sheets 2.4x4.8 not the smaller merchant ones, with 50mm plastic feet on

[msh paving]

Ahh time lapse was to fast to see it being done MSH