New driveway - Looking for ideas

[47p2]

He loves to lick out yoghurt pots and foil oven trays

[lutonlagerlout]

almost makes me want to go back to scotland <rose tinted views>

oops then i remembered ,my family are from greenock :O

I like your style mick and that cutting in round the rodding eye is awesome
i take it you had to cut multiple times with the saw to achieve that tight curve?

you have to remember 47p2that mick is a joiner by trade, and they work to 1mm tolerance

when i was at college, anything to do with brick work etc was 10mm over 3 m and in situ was the way it was down around round covers
cheers LLL

[mickg]

thank you luton

mark the shape on the block with chalk or whatever you use then lots of cuts 10 - 15mm apart just up to the line, clean it up with the edge of the diamond blade very gently

[cookiewales]

thank you luton

mark the shape on the block with chalk or whatever you use then lots of cuts 10 - 15mm apart just up to the line, clean it up with the edge of the diamond blade very gently

can vouch for that mickg is very keen on cuts even i had to redo some :;): :;):

[47p2]

We're almost at the gate now but the drainage work stopped the block work going any further. At the other side of the gate the drainage and pipework is now completed, and tomorrow they will rip out the remainder of the concrete and put the hardcore down ready for block laying on Monday morning.

[47p2]

Things were moving on at a faster pace today with the big driveway blocked out past the gates and the aqua channel fitted.
There is still enough space at the front to have an excavator, the forklift/dump truck and the roller inside the gates

The front path has been ripped in preperation for the kerbs to be laid


The side path has been ripped out and the drainage pipe fitted ready for the aqua channel to be installed in front of the small garage


The small driveway has started to be lifted. This has to have a new water pipe from the mains to the house fitted as the original lead pipe still feeds our taps.
It will be my job to fit this pipe once the guys have the channel dug out.
Speaking with a neighbour he told me that the council replaced all lead pipes 20 years ago for free, but as luck would have it the lazy sods that stayed in this house never had the work done.

[47p2]

Today was the day.

The day that my vehicles went back into the garage. The big driveway was finished around lunch time and my mate and I brought the cars over from the airport along with the newly painted trailer


Caithness stone is being laid between the house and small garage


Big driveway before


and after


Before


and after
We now have a 'bottom' step which I never knew existed. It had been covered in concrete



Small driveway has been started and should be completed tomorrow



Sat outside this evening and cracked open a bottle of red, poured a glass and lit a Cohiba.
I know we aren't finished but it just felt the right thing to do today....Cheers

[msh paving]

Just need doggy paws in the screeded sand now............. MSH

[47p2]

The dog won't be near it tonight msh, but I bet it's covered in fox prints by the morning

[lutonlagerlout]

not taking the mick like 47p2 but if rovers are so good how come you got 2 smirks sitting dans le garage?
i have had 3 rovers,2 metros and a montego 2-0 efi
the metros went on and on but the montego was a pig of a car
16 previous owners should have told me all i needed to know :;):

BTW i see they have screeded the sand and yet there is no retaining edge for the blocks??
do they haunch the kerbs in afterwards?
cheers
LLL

[msh paving]

The dog won't be near it tonight msh, but I bet it's covered in fox prints by the morning

Shoot the fox.....-ucking thing had 4 off my chickens last week,

[47p2]

The smirks are working cars, not my choice but I have to use what the punter wants and that's MB

The kerbs will go in tomorrow morning, I would think they've done it this way to get the correct height ???

We have way too many foxes here, they tease the dog from the other side of the hedges, some day he'll go through the hedge and get them

[mickg]

on the main driveway were they have installed kerbs did they remove the sand laying course and replace with a concrete mix to bed the kerbs onto then to place concrete behind the kerbs to hold them in place

or have they put the kerbs on top of the sand laying course and put concrete behind them ?

[47p2]

The concrete mix was done on top of the compacted hardcore

[47p2]

Bad news Guys & Gals


Not sure how to say this...........but the thread is coming to an end very soon

I came home tonight to find the Caithness completed....well as complete as it can be until we get more stone.
It was always going to be a gamble as to exactly how much Caithness we required and as the steps were using stone at a rate of knots we couldn't tell until near the end if we had enough. We started with 80sqm and I have ordered another 10sqm to do the steps at the end of the front path and a small path at the trees, also I have also ordered more Caithness for the front door steps, this has to be cut thinner to fit under the door and the time will be around 10-14 days before we receive it. I in my ignorance spoke with my supplier today to ask if the workmen could collect the 10sqm only to find out the stone is still in Caithness.....


The front path is completed except for the steps


and these steps


The small driveway looks to be completed too



There are a couple of snagging jobs to be done which I suspect will be completed tomorrow, grouting of the Caithness, there are slabs to be laid behind the big garage and a general tidy up.

There may be an update tomorrow, but if not it could be about 10-14 days