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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:50 pm
by lutonlagerlout
did a budget drive extension this week and a soakaway
havent got the heart to take a picture of the drive
why folk in 700k houses wont spend 7-8 k on a drive is beyond me?
LLL
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 10:23 pm
by Carberry
lutonlagerlout wrote:havent got the heart to take a picture of the drive
why folk in 700k houses wont spend 7-8 k on a drive is beyond me?
LLL
Haha. I have a job like that coming up, they want to buy some budget slabs from B & Q when they come on offer rather than have me supply and lay even a cheap sandstone that will look nice.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:07 am
by mickg
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:04 am
by cookiewales
first class mickg is that a basalt resin for pointing random coursed for paving looks great 
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:58 pm
by GB_Groundworks
looks good mick, did you do the conservatory as well?
is it just me or do the angled bricks look a different colour and texture on the conservatory base?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:59 pm
by dig dug dan
mick, how do you stop the sweepy in stuff gumming up the manhole edges and key?
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 6:25 pm
by mickg
cheers Cookie, the patio is jointed with grey weatherpoint 365
thank you Giles, the conservatory base and frames were already there Giles we removed the old block paving patio and constructed a new patio using sawn paving
with lots of love care and attention Dan 
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 7:46 pm
by GB_Groundworks
dont talk to me about gummed up man holes 
just finishing up big internal refit came to lift the manhole lids (big 600x600x150 deep) despite me telling the floor fitters to mask off the lid edges theyd managed to stick them down with self levelling compound, what you need on the 2nd to last day when everything is being cleaned and tidied up. took me 4 hours to get one up grinding rd it, levering the key with 2inch bar bending and my 20st on the other end, hads to rip the vinyl flooring off and eventually just stuck the big road breaker in the middle of the inset cover and let it have it with the 35kg breaker. did the trick but had to re concrete the inset covers
i was less than polite to the floor fitter who wouldnt believe me that we couldnt get them up
there was 10mm of self levelling compound rd the base of the cover and some had gone into the drain run so cleaned them up and greased them up and they are ok now
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:01 pm
by dig dug dan
should have made the floor guy lift them ???
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Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:09 pm
by GB_Groundworks
in an ideal world maybe but a. he wasnt there and it needed doing and b. he's a floor layer i doubt he'd have the skill or intuition to have got them up
he got to repair them at his cost and likely loose a good client (i've thrown £13k of flooring his way so far this year)
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:12 pm
by KLS
dig dug dan wrote:he hasnt done me a favour at all. He dropped the skip on the driveway where it was supposed to go. I am not charging him anything, he has offered to pay for a panel and post. I am installing both FOC.
The customer came out and asked if he was insured!
I have known the guy for 20 odd years, so its not an issue
I guess that was Rodger then. Lol. First knock iv known him to have if it was him.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:19 pm
by dig dug dan
Spot on kieran! Where would we be without roger the skip
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:22 pm
by r896neo
Lovely job mick! out of interest why the white pebbles? Just an aesthetic choice?
Yes those doglegs look like a totally different brick!
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:42 pm
by mickg
yeah purely aesthetics
we are very limited in the choice of pebbles these days and I actually called at 3 different merchants and 4 B&Q's looking for something to match, non of the chippings or pebbles with a hint of red or buff would of looked right with the argent light border so the best choice was the white cobbles
believe it or not the bricks match very well, I had just washed all the walls and patio with a hose pipe so the bottom 2 rows of the blue brick are still wet hence why they look like they are darker in colour
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:40 am
by lutonlagerlout
excellent work mick
does that patio fall towards the house?
and is that what the pebbles are for?
loving the argent border a fantastic idea that i pinched off you ages ago and it always looks good
LLL
