surely .44m2 short?
4.4 would be way out
if you had realised you could have put a band of bricks in or CBP
TBH I always order 5% over on any flags just for cuts and bad ones
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I've railed against this in the past. I can't see how it is legal to sell paving packs on the basis of how big an area it *might* cover if laid with joints of a certain width. If we allow this, what's to stop some clown selling a 20m² pack with just half a dozen flags and then claiming that you need 3m wide joints?sy76uk wrote:I brought a crate that say's it covers 15.25m2 of stone but I didn't read the fine print that says it includes a 20mm mortar joint so the laying pattern I set out is 4.4m2 short.
An extreme example, admittedly, but for me, it's WRONG to sell fresh air, which is what is done when you are sold paving that doesn't actually exist.
If the packaging was to say, f'rinstance..."15m² pack will cover approximately 15.6m² when laid with typical 10mm joints"....then that's fine, but all too often, I have clients who have ended-up short of paving because of this bit of blatant and cynical mis-selling.
If I buy a pint of milk and then find that it's only ¾pint but will make a pint when topped up with water, would that be legal? Would it buggery!
How come Trading Standards haven't clamped down on this?
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it was a bit of a piss take because I ended up 2 300x600's short and couldn't pick them up because it was Sunday. I had a bit of a trek monday morning to get them then I spent a few hours cutting round the manhole lid in the morning.
In hindsight, I should have used the pack quantity to work out what I had to begin with to avoid the problem.
In hindsight, I should have used the pack quantity to work out what I had to begin with to avoid the problem.