Recent work

[Nigel Walker]

I have had various run-ins with highways about this issue.

They want to charge £40 for a temp permit for storage of building materials on the road.
But, you are allowed a reasonable amount of time to move materials off the road that have been put there.

What is 'reasonable'. This is a very arguable point in these matters.
If there is only 1 person moving 10 ton of sand with a shovel and barrow, a reasonable amount of time would be 1 or 2 days. But if you have a digger and dumper and 2 men, then half an hour is a reasonable time.

What we do is organize for the delivery of blocks to come at 9am, just as we have finished screeding the drive, then we start laying right away. By midday, most of the blocks if not all of them will have been laid, then we move the remaining blocks by Probst cart and put on the drive we have laid.
Thus we have removed the materials from the road in what I would call a 'reasonable' time.
We put out road signs, cones, barriers etc etc.

If it is a large drive, then we organise the deliveries to come so that the 2nd or 3rd drops can be off loaded directly onto the blocks we have just laid.

If it is a large job and the only way is for storing materials on the road that are gonna be there overnight or for a few days, then we apply for a permit, but for only 6 packs of blocks for half a day - no chance !!

What does annoy me is the half empty bulk bag of sand still outside someones house on the road that has been there for 3 months !!

[msh paving]

^^^^ you got it Dan, ive never had a path or highway permit, blocks delivered the day we lay if they still there bad luck, never had a issue in 20 years. usually put a barrier up and the odd cone. maybe thats Norfolk higways problem MSH

[Carberry]

First neighbour that complains about blocks on the road gets them through their window :laugh:

[dig dug dan]

First neighbour that complains about blocks on the road gets them through their window :laugh:

i find a gallon of used engine oil "spilt" on their drive in the dead of night does the trick :p

[lutonlagerlout]

norfolk may be lenient but hertfordshire council are bang on it
we have had calls at night to get a skip moved straight away because someone complained
skip boss was not happy
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[mike builder/landscaper]

It's grim darn sarf with all these rules and regs, never heard of a materials licence before. Hope I haven't spoken to soon.

[lutonlagerlout]

its 1 big building site round here and neighbours get the hump
the road in harpenden we are working in has 15 lots of builders currently at play out of maybe 120 houses
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[lutonlagerlout]

finished the drive today


customer well happy gave us an easter egg each and a very nice cash drink
i told the lads that if we finished today I would pay them for tomorrow so the pair of them will be legless now
:;):
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[dig dug dan]

Cracking job as ever tony. Its nice to snatch a job from the travellers and foreign counterparts

[Edgar]

Like it, Tony. That's the kind of thing we have. But our bungalow is greyish so there isn't the colour contrast your customer has chosen. Nice step too although I'd have chosen a darker colour for the kerbs to make the step edges stand out. Edgar

[Nigel Walker]

Nice job Tony. Like the steps.
What's happening with the gap under the door

[KLS]

Looks great Tony.

[lutonlagerlout]

cheers fellas
put 4 blue staff plinths in to finish the step

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[RAPressureWashing]

LLL

All those oil stains go from your drive?

[lutonlagerlout]

they did mate but the missus has replaced them already

I am not that anal about them really,in an ideal world it wouldnt happen but c'est la vie!
LLL