Recent work

[Tony McC]

We worked in all sorts of places back when I was contracting: prisons, nuclear sites, MoD sites, even a US air base, but the strictest security we ever encountered (and this was in the mid 1980s) was at a Fibre Optic cable factory in Deeside (the Welsh one, not the one in Scotland).

How *anything* ever got done at that place is a mystery. Just to go for a mid-morning dump involved a dozen forms to be filled, signed and counter-signed. It's not easy to get a faultless signature when you're touching cloth!

[lutonlagerlout]

i worked at the french embassy in kensington palace gardens in the early 90s
pricess diana was next door,sultan of brunei over the road

the whole firm had to be checked for irish relations,anything closer than grandad and you were off the job
good craic though
LLL

[RAPressureWashing]

I do a job for Bill Gates once a year, have a uniformed security guard with me all the time, he has to stand in the bathroom, (as I'm working on a decked balcony) until I finish, same again when back there sanding & oiling.

[London Stone Paving]

Nice job Tony. Looking really good. Are the clients happy with it?
I bet you must have pointed it in no time with the weather point. What are the gaps by the way 6-8mm?

[lutonlagerlout]

10mm used a tape and lines so defo 10mm
i think 6 mm is too small
took me around 2 1/2 hours with weatherpoint but i like to push it hard into the joint
cheers LLL

[London Stone Paving]

10mm used a tape and lines so defo 10mm
i think 6 mm is too small
took me around 2 1/2 hours with weatherpoint but i like to push it hard into the joint
cheers LLL

We have always reccomended joints of 6-8mm, but that's based upon using a gun pointed product. I hear some people advocating 5mm but it doesnt give any allowance for the +/- 2mm dimensional tolerance of the stone.

2 1/2 hours. Cant argue with that

[lutonlagerlout]

in my experience your sawn stuff is pretty much bang on steve
we put the drains in and started exactly 5490mm away
which gives 9 flags plus a 10mm joint
not 1 flag varied in size,
got a few rivens coming up and TBH the sawn spoils you
LLL

[Carberry]

Looks good Tony, the few times I've used sawn paving I've found Steve's stuff to be better calibrated than Marshall's.

Most security I have had to deal with was working for noble foods, their factory had something like 1 million chickens. Spent a day filling out forms and doing inductions, cameras on you at all times when working, not allowed any cameras on site and get suspicious if you have your phone out. Got reported to their health and safety because I was carrying a 25kg bag of cement on my own

[Tony McC]

We have always reccomended joints of 6-8mm

There's a minimum width below which mortars are incapable of supporting their own mass: they become too fragile.

6mm would be right at the very limit of what I'd ever accept for a mortar joint (excepting specialist narrow joint cement or resin mortars) and I typically set a minimum wisdth of 9mm, based on a 9-12mm tolerance range.

We were always taght to use the tip of the little finger as a portable joint width guide - it's always with you and is a pretty good indicator of a reasonable joint.

[GB_Groundworks]

one of the big projects weve got on at mo

slope stabilisation, new drains, re profile slope, pile foundation and ring beam, demolish half built swimming pool build a through arch garage and paved parking area, new fencing, new drive, large gabion retaining wall to top and bottom of the slope, rock drilling, lots of cool stuff

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157641822277524/

[KLS]

You Wouldn't want to be sliding down that bank in a hurry! Looks like one hell of a job!

[Dave_L]

Now the weather seems to have turned a corner, we're cracking on with things - some clients have been patiently waiting since October last year, just before the weather turned sour here in Somerset

218m2 full-construction driveway at a new build property on Exmoor - 6mm SMA



All surface water to large soakaway via Aco drains, CBP detail to edging around driveway perimeter

[Kuts]

Nice finish on that Dave, how many lads on the rake? iv got a 220m2 drive in SMA to do and its gonna be a pita to do without a joint.
What pen do you use?

[mickg]

very nice finsh Dave

[Tony McC]

Nice walling, too!