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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:02 pm
by mickg
thank you for your kind words Tony, I feel honoured as the previous 2 years you did not comment ???
there are 16 slips in the driveway to keep the bond in the same laying pattern, doing inbound would totally ruin the laying pattern and result in straight lines running through 2 courses which I never do plus changing the aesthetics of the driveway which is why I decided to cut the driveway in this way and has nothing to do with Marshalls
the small cuts are tapped down into a sand and cement bed on top of the concrete and the surplus bed smoothed over to hold them in place with a 10mm finger trowel before being jointed with weatherpoint 365
If I thought for one minute the integrity of the paving was compromised by laying this way it would be changed
why is it OK for this Guilloche pattern setts to be laid with very small slips but my driveway not ?
setts and cubes
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:05 pm
by mickg
Thank you John
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:07 pm
by mickg
cheers haggi
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:15 pm
by Tony McC
mickg wrote:the previous 2 years you did not comment ???
To be fair, I've not been fully active in the Brew Cabin for 18 months or so due to, well let's just call them 'changes in my personal life' which have placed significant demands on my free time.
If I didn't comment, it wasn't done consciously. I also have to be careful because I act as a judge for some awards schemes so I don't want to put myself in a position where someone not given a prize gets the hump and starts whingeing about me praising some projects and not others. I know that you've not entered the two award bashes that are fast approaching, so I'm hopefully not compromised.
And the difference between blocks and setts/cubes? I'd have thought it was obvious - one is flexible construction and one is rigid.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:27 pm
by Tony McC
I should add that my comments regarding slips and darts refers to block paving jobs in general, not Mick's job in particular, and likewise with the comments about the scheme sponsors turning a blind eye to non-compliant cutting-in.
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:33 pm
by mickg
no problem I understand
>>>one is flexible construction and one is rigid.
but that's my point, all of the fairstone driveway setts are bedded on 100mm minimum concrete (each block individually bedded down into the concrete) which is rigid and totally different to a block paving flexible construction where the slips are as we know are unacceptable
ADDED
you posted as I was typing 
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:22 pm
by ambient
congratulations ,nice work as always mick
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:48 pm
by mickg
Thanks Tony
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:20 pm
by rab1
nice work mick and belated congratulations on winning.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:30 am
by mickg
cheers rab
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:40 am
by Tony McC
mickg wrote:all of the fairstone driveway setts are bedded on 100mm minimum concrete
I wasn't commenting on that job in particular, but on the use of slips and darts on conventional block paved drives in general. I thought I'd made that clear but reading back I can see how it could be confused and interpreted as a comment on the work in the photo.
That's not the case - my remarks were simply a response to the point raised by Dan about the use of darts and slips in general.
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:48 am
by mickg
no problem Tony, I had thought the confusion could of arisen because I posted in the block paving forum, in hind site I should of posted in "other paving" forum instead
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:01 pm
by Tony McC
Well I'm not shifting it now - it can stay in this forum. No real harm!
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:41 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I think that mick's fairstone drive is effectively a sett construction
slips and darts is a minefield
aesthetically they look better than inboard cutting,but i feel that most failures come from subbase failure ,or too much sand
i saw lads in luton just after xmas and they were laying tegs with the jumper blocks
lovely pattern but as they got close to the road they were screeding 75mm of sand
matter of time before that fails
also the pikey drives done in september down my road have started to ripple
they paid cheap and got what they paid for now
LLL
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 1:08 pm
by rimexboy
lutonlagerlout wrote:well done mick
maybe arsenal can lend you their trophy cabinet?
do they do nationwide awards as well or is it always regional?
nice one
LLL
hey dont be nasty im a gooner and not a happy one of that...
good work very well done to you ....