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Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 9:47 am
by Tony McC
We worked in all sorts of places back when I was contracting: prisons, nuclear sites, MoD sites, even a US air base, but the strictest security we ever encountered (and this was in the mid 1980s) was at a Fibre Optic cable factory in Deeside (the Welsh one, not the one in Scotland).
How *anything* ever got done at that place is a mystery. Just to go for a mid-morning dump involved a dozen forms to be filled, signed and counter-signed. It's not easy to get a faultless signature when you're touching cloth!
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:41 am
by lutonlagerlout
i worked at the french embassy in kensington palace gardens in the early 90s
pricess diana was next door,sultan of brunei over the road
the whole firm had to be checked for irish relations,anything closer than grandad and you were off the job
good craic though
LLL
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:21 pm
by RAPressureWashing
I do a job for Bill Gates once a year, have a uniformed security guard with me all the time, he has to stand in the bathroom, (as I'm working on a decked balcony) until I finish, same again when back there sanding & oiling.
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:58 pm
by London Stone Paving
Nice job Tony. Looking really good. Are the clients happy with it?
I bet you must have pointed it in no time with the weather point. What are the gaps by the way 6-8mm?
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:54 am
by lutonlagerlout
10mm used a tape and lines so defo 10mm
i think 6 mm is too small
took me around 2 1/2 hours with weatherpoint but i like to push it hard into the joint
cheers LLL 
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:22 pm
by London Stone Paving
lutonlagerlout wrote:10mm used a tape and lines so defo 10mm
i think 6 mm is too small
took me around 2 1/2 hours with weatherpoint but i like to push it hard into the joint
cheers LLL
We have always reccomended joints of 6-8mm, but that's based upon using a gun pointed product. I hear some people advocating 5mm but it doesnt give any allowance for the +/- 2mm dimensional tolerance of the stone.
2 1/2 hours. Cant argue with that
Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:41 pm
by lutonlagerlout
in my experience your sawn stuff is pretty much bang on steve
we put the drains in and started exactly 5490mm away
which gives 9 flags plus a 10mm joint
not 1 flag varied in size,
got a few rivens coming up and TBH the sawn spoils you
LLL
Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 7:53 pm
by Carberry
Looks good Tony, the few times I've used sawn paving I've found Steve's stuff to be better calibrated than Marshall's.
Most security I have had to deal with was working for noble foods, their factory had something like 1 million chickens. Spent a day filling out forms and doing inductions, cameras on you at all times when working, not allowed any cameras on site and get suspicious if you have your phone out. Got reported to their health and safety because I was carrying a 25kg bag of cement on my own
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:58 am
by Tony McC
London Stone Paving wrote:We have always reccomended joints of 6-8mm
There's a minimum width below which mortars are incapable of supporting their own mass: they become too fragile.
6mm would be right at the very limit of what I'd ever accept for a mortar joint (excepting specialist narrow joint cement or resin mortars) and I typically set a minimum wisdth of 9mm, based on a 9-12mm tolerance range.
We were always taght to use the tip of the little finger as a portable joint width guide - it's always with you and is a pretty good indicator of a reasonable joint.
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:58 pm
by GB_Groundworks
one of the big projects weve got on at mo
slope stabilisation, new drains, re profile slope, pile foundation and ring beam, demolish half built swimming pool build a through arch garage and paved parking area, new fencing, new drive, large gabion retaining wall to top and bottom of the slope, rock drilling, lots of cool stuff
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberprop/sets/72157641822277524/
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:16 pm
by KLS
You Wouldn't want to be sliding down that bank in a hurry! Looks like one hell of a job!
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 9:49 am
by Dave_L
Now the weather seems to have turned a corner, we're cracking on with things - some clients have been patiently waiting since October last year, just before the weather turned sour here in Somerset
218m2 full-construction driveway at a new build property on Exmoor - 6mm SMA
All surface water to large soakaway via Aco drains, CBP detail to edging around driveway perimeter
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:05 am
by Kuts
Nice finish on that Dave, how many lads on the rake? iv got a 220m2 drive in SMA to do and its gonna be a pita to do without a joint.
What pen do you use?
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 11:45 am
by mickg
very nice finsh Dave
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:34 pm
by Tony McC
Nice walling, too!