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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:30 pm
by Tony McC
Why do these jobs always come in *just* before a BH weekend, when there's no chance of driving around the various yards of the Ribble Valley and West Yorkshire, trying to convince your beloved that it's just a scenic ride out and you had no idea there were so many reclamation yards in the area?

Think I might have some sussed. The client has sent a couple of photies of what they want to match. I reckon I can match the setts but I've no frickin' chance of finding anyone crap enough to lay them in the same style - I've stopped drinking in saloons!

Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:49 pm
by haggistini
30 ton of these from that "tower of london" available down here tony but at £160 a ton they must really "have to have them"!!!
massive ammount of wear, almost perfectly flat and about 4/5 m2 a sack

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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:58 pm
by lutonlagerlout
apart from the fact they are old and worn i struggle to see the attraction in setts
maybe its from coming from the dirty south,where we never see any :;):
LLL

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 8:48 am
by mickavalon
We needed about 50 Smooth Staff's blue 10"x5" Pavers a while back, shopped about and ended up at a Re-claim yard I try not too use often cos of his prices. He asked for £1.50 a block, and I managed to knock him down to £1.30 cash cos we were desperate. When my guy went with the pick up to get them, the yard guy was loading them literally out the back of another builders van and onto ours. The other guy had turned up to sell about 200 he'd got hold of. My guy managed to have a sly word with the other builder, found out he was getting £50 cash for the lot, gave him £60 and loaded the lot. needless to say we're not welcome there anymore, Ha Ha!!:D

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 9:27 am
by Carberry
lutonlagerlout wrote:apart from the fact they are old and worn i struggle to see the attraction in setts
maybe its from coming from the dirty south,where we never see any :;):
LLL
They're all over the roads in Edinburgh and do my nut in, always all over the place and crap to drive on when I'm not in the navara.

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:43 am
by London Stone Paving
They are very popular in European cities. when laid properly they look the nuts in my opinion