Recent work

[dig dug dan]

back at the driveway.

Wall up saturday. Note special end brick. £38!



Steps built saturday also



Screeding and laying today. Special thanks to Mickg for his link to the screed rails. 8 brought. tools for life





hopefully a drier day tomorrow!

[Dave_L]

New connection (100mm)to public combined sewer (225mm) using saddle connection under Section 50 licence today, together with dropped kerb vehicular crossover to new property. A good days work I'd say.

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[lutonlagerlout]

not telling my granny how to suck eggs dan ,but havent you made life a little hard for yourselves not getting all the sand in first?
it would be pedantic of me to mention SUDS legislation :;):
we did the linear drainage today on the drive we are on and we got everything connected haunched pipe in soakaway ,happy days
then i looked and saw that my 2 accomplices hadnt knocked the whole out of the bottom of the drain before concreting it in place above the pipe
....................
the boggle minds,they blamed each other as is usually the case
LLL

[msh paving]

Im with our LLL on this screed your way out-lay your way in,there must be a good reason why you not got sand in first..
why did you not screed it up and down with the fall ?
just a question Dan MSH

[dig dug dan]

well, what i have not shown you is the steepness of the crossover in which to get vehicles. If i attempt to reverse up with my truck empty, my tow bar grinds out. With it being so steep, we could only get a 7.5tonner up, which carried 2.4m, which tipped up the top and we fed from it.
We would love to have screeded it all in one go, then lay, but the customers and their offspring are in and out all the time, so we have to avoid too mcuh prepped msurface for them to walk on.
on the question of suds, the local council is not only not enforcing the regulations, but twhen challenged they say things like, "it appears to drain to a flowerbed" or " we poured a bottle of water on it and it drained away". I gave the customer the option, told him the extra cost, and he delcined, and i dont blame him.
I would have only lost the job to another guy who also would not have put in a drain.

[Dave_L]

I'm the same; I always try to sell the merits of drainage solutions but many people knowingly just want the surfacing done. By quoting the drainage works separately on the same quote I get a good chance of securing the work.

[Kuts]

I do the same with suds, I haven't had one customer this year who said to do it.

[lutonlagerlout]

probably why i dont get many drives :;):
I think theres only us and one other around here that put it in
we have the same issues with the 3 kids thinking our work area is a play ground,gawd luv 'em
LLL

[lutonlagerlout]

drive we are doing (amongst other jobs)

tegula kerb


drainage to comply with SUDS


workaround so as not to block the airbricks or compromise the DPC


all haunched now
more pics tomorrow

LLL

[Dave_L]

I was forced to look at this howler for the best part of the morning...........how the spelling nazi in me never got out I'll never know. Still, at least they were using wa®ter supression with their saws

[dig dug dan]

What drainage channels are those. I buy off flea bay. A guy based in radlett, works out at £6 a length

[lutonlagerlout]

plastic express do them but in this case I got them off ivel building supplies
around £6.50 each
i like the wavy line and TBH am converted from the old resin acos
at least these have a proper connection for underground pipe
cheers LLL

[dig dug dan]

Yes, and they don't shatter if you sneeze on them

[Dave_L]

Can't beat resin acos, plastic ones aren't good alongside 160 deg bitmac/sma

[lutonlagerlout]

after an all too brief holiday,stoned up ready to go!!

LLL