Recent work

[mickg]

looks superb cookie, what is it being pointed with ?

[London Stone Paving]

Awesome stuff Cookie. You should get a knighthood

[cookiewales]

It's being pointed with 6/1 sharp sand cement batched in buckets so no change to mix . It's made very wet to flow into joints then sweegie into joints . Then the pergo belt cleaner comes into play . I have bought 100 litres Eco chem cleaner £250 inc vat to etch the pointing to take the new look away it will in a few months look like over 100 years old . I have in the past used hydercloric acid 32 percent proof but is not user friendly or client friendly will have time lapse up for the pointing :p

[rimexboy]

Cookie that's just amazing work, it looks fantastic cant wait for the time lapse but please please do a video of the pergo...

[Bob_A]

It's being pointed with 6/1 sharp sand cement batched in buckets so no change to mix . It's made very wet to flow into joints then sweegie into joints . Then the pergo belt cleaner comes into play . I have bought 100 litres Eco chem cleaner £250 inc vat to etch the pointing to take the new look away it will in a few months look like over 100 years old . I have in the past used hydercloric acid 32 percent proof but is not user friendly or client friendly will have time lapse up for the pointing :p

Truly superb work.


Have you stopped pointing with the resins and Is the way you're going to do pointing from now on?

[cookiewales]

Been pointing this way for thirty years plus but to use resin would be 20k plus and would still need to top setts to within 25 mm of the top

[London Stone Paving]

You beat me to the question there Bob. I'm assuming that the sand and cement is much cheaper to do and the investment of the belt cleaner means the residue can be easily removed ?

Tell me I'm right Cookie ?

[cookiewales]

You beat me to the question there Bob. I'm assuming that the sand and cement is much cheaper to do and the investment of the belt cleaner means the residue can be easily removed ?

Tell me I'm right Cookie ?

You are right on paving resin wins hands down on setts slurry wins unless the client has buckets of money resin is by far the quicker but I have had 20 ton diggers with steel tracks on setts with no problem on slurry will have the time lapse camera up for it

[lutonlagerlout]

new job started this week
before



DDD's crusher @work


footings in blockwork monday


LLL

[msh paving]

^^^What's going on... i spy a mini digger...

MSH

[rimexboy]

^^^What's going on... i spy a mini digger...

MSH

It must just be for show tony loves digging

[lutonlagerlout]

if i can use them i do, access was 1400mm so 1 tonne digger and dumper worked fine
LLL

[bodgeitandscarper]

Whats the plan LLL? Do you have a design we can look at?

[lutonlagerlout]

we were going to do a 9 inch wall to match the house
but after seeing london stone's display the client wants cladding to match the flags ,also mason finished copings in matching stone
its a good sized lump of a patio and we are hoping to infill where needed with our home grown crushed
got a chimney to point tomorrow then onto the 9 inch conkers monday :;):
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

this weekends work



long way up



raked out



easipoint historic lime mortar



finished



the client and his gardener did this patio +no comment


cheers LLL