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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:48 am
by mickavalon
Few cross joints there mate!! wouldn't be showing them off to much, joints are a bit wide too.:rock:
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 7:39 am
by lutonlagerlout
its a fair job carberry but as mick said ideally you shouldn't have 4 corners touching :;):
might be an idea to invest in a slightly better camera,you can get half decent digital ones now for around £60
ps how many size flags did you use there?
looks like 5 or 6 sizes?
cheers LLL
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 7:41 am
by lutonlagerlout
pps with the "cobbles" or 20mm shingle as we colloquially call them round these parts what was your technique for laying them?
its a nice effect and i have done it with 50-75 mm cobbles but never with stuff that small?
cheers LLL 
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:26 am
by Carberry
Used the camera on my phone, it is starting to get a bit battered now after a few months of abuse on jobs. I do have a nicer that i keep on forgetting to take.
The joints balance out over the whole area, it's not the nicest sandstone to work with, had to go with the cheap stuff to fit in with budget. It is 5 sizes.
The corners meeting up happen twice at the top edge, it was a little laziness on my part as I didn't plan the layout before laying them and it meant i didn't have to do any cuts along that edge or the opposite edge.
I don't like how the cobbles fit in with the deisgn of the garden but I was happy with the finish. The customer has a massive house and he has too many themes happening. Along that path you have crazy paving and now cobbles which leads down to a footpath that is scotch pebbles edged with charcoal woburn rumbled blocks which leads to the driveway made of charcoal woburn rumbled. Around the back there is crazy paving concrete slabs with lumps of sandstone forming a border. ]
I dug out the ground, put a couple of inches of hardcore down then a 5:1 wet mix of building sand. Just like brick laying, when you get the mix just right the cobbles go in no bother, too wet and they float, too dry and they heave because you have to use too much force to get them in and you don't get a good seal. Floated a small section at a time. The spray bottle was there for if the mix got a little too dry (it was hot) and for any repairs (labourer stood on the corner 
). There was no real pattern, just plonked them down, customer didnt want to pay for any fancy designs. After each section tapped them down to level with a small sheet of plywood, roughly 500x500, that I stuck a handle on. They are 20-30mm scotch pebble, ended up being 10m2, there is another similar size section and 1 smaller one.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:30 am
by Carberry
Here are the photos of the driveway. Hard to see in the small photos but the driveway has sloping concrete between the blocks and the street, I said it would have looked better with some edging and blocks coming down 2 courses further but customer thought concrete would look better ???
Before:
After 1:
After 2:
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 11:51 am
by Suggers
I'm still not getting the photos....?? 
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 5:16 pm
by Pablo
Carberry wrote:footpath that is scotch pebbles
Are they some kind of stone infused with whisky or are you just trying to offend an entire nation. We prefer Scots or Scottish thank you very much.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:43 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Or from the ppl who make post it notes haha
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:10 pm
by Tommy
3M???? :p
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:04 am
by Suggers
ha ha - never realised the Scots were so sensitive - :p
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 2:10 am
by Suggers
Of course, now with the overtly smiling self-satisfied Salmon - Scotland is gonna leave us.....?
I feel it's a shame - when I want to pull europe together, to tell the USA to move over, we now get the scots for more breakj-up ?
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 12:23 pm
by Pablo
Salmond. The Scots are much more pro europe than the rest of the Uk and if they get independance will go down the same road as the Irish which worked very well for them minus the traincrash last year. If you want a closer Europe it's your own counrtymen you need to convince because the Scots are all for it and chomping at the bit. A referendum will probably result in a yes vote but it's not as simple as that and still very unlikely that any separation will happen regardless of whether the majority want it to. As for the USA we've nothing to fear from them they're in the same death throes that our empire was in last century it's south and east Asia we have to worry about.
Posted: Sun May 08, 2011 8:33 pm
by rab1
The vast majority of us voted SNP as Labour are now worse the the Tories, at least with them we know we were going to be fxcked. most Scots believe in the union in the central belt but up north forget it, they would dump the union in a blink of the eye.
Perth upwards are always SNP strongholds and no surprises there but the central belt was labour until now, in a general election Labour will win in central belt but the labour Party will take a long time to be forgiven for new Labour.
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:14 pm
by GB_Groundworks
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:20 pm
by GB_Groundworks
). There was no real pattern, just plonked them down, customer didnt want to pay for any fancy designs. After each section tapped them down to level with a small sheet of plywood, roughly 500x500, that I stuck a handle on. They are 20-30mm scotch pebble, ended up being 10m2, there is another similar size section and 1 smaller one.
