Sounds like you've been lucky Mick. Your strength is in the quality of your workmanship and how well thought out your jobs are.
I'm trying to go down the same route now. I wish I had of done it 10-15 years ago. Believe it or not it was down to laziness more than anything else. The money was good back then, all price work and no running around quoting jobs up or the hassle of running a business.
The down side was how much we'd have to lay in a day to earn the good money.
A 1000m2 road in 80's was a postage stamp to us.
30,000m2 was the biggest job I ever did and 90ish% of all the paving I have ever laid has been 80mm thick.
As we all know it's 80's on roads, car parks ect and 60's on driveways and footpaths.
All we did during the 80's right up to the early 00's was massive industrial estates, retail parks, schools hospitals ect.
I was a slave to the blocks for years, very monotonous but at least now it only takes a day once the jobs prepped to lay a driveway
Start of a new project on the western edge of Swansea.
There'd be a cracking view over the bay if it weren't for those trees.
The plan. Subject to change no doubt.
I went from wondering how I was going to get rid of all the soil to will I have enough for fill and back to where are we going to lose it all.
Beautiful soil though, never had a dig this deep of pure topsoil.
stepped meaning battered so it won't collapse. being lose it could go quite easy. your spoil is to close to the dig putting a hefty lateral force on the side of trench, potential for serious harm, or death to someone working there.
maybe I am seeing it wrong but that *trench* only looks about 900mm at the high point
risk assessment very low risk of collapse and difficult for a man to be trapped if that happened
AFAIK trenchs over 1200 deeps need shoring or battering
of course as always, I am ready to be corrected
looks a decent job to get your teeth into LC and show off your skills
btw did you do the drawing?
if so Bravo!
LLL
I get it Sean and will keep it in mind for future works.
As LLL says it isn't that high from the ground level, finished height of the wall will be around a metre, appreciate its a bit deeper than that to bott of trench.
Yeah nice size project tony, Simon gunna be there sometime. Lost my brickie to a higher payer so may have to do much of it myself or see if my ex brickie will do a couple of weekends.
Yes did drawing and still trying to improve my cad skills. Helps a lot with setting out and measuring areas etc.
I prefer doing the bigger projects Mark. I've spent the last 3 weeks doing little jobs for people and the time and money spent running around to get the stuff hardly makes it worth your while.
Come on down Cookie, I'll put you up and buy the beer.
Yeah I know what you mean Simon, I think a mix is best though. A couple of small ones in between. After a while you get sick of going to the same place. It's a 50 to 60 minute drive for a 30 mile journey and traffic lights 100m apart, you know the ones that change to red as yours go green
You would be wrong Luton. 1200 is only a guide. A one sided dig is just as bad as a double sided one. My main concern was the added height and lateral forces with the spoil.
3 of the little jobs should have been nice.
1 was for my next door neighbour, the second for a bloke over the road and the third for a mate that lives less than 5 minutes away.
The first job was an aco channel.
It took me half a day to find a sodding p trap. I ended up getting one from b&q of all places.
One of the TP's I went in didn't even know what one was so it took 2 days to do 2 aco channels.
Second one was a footpath down the side of a house.
We got the same textured slabs for the footpath as we used on his patio but the new ones were a different shade.
Spent the next morning trying to explain that on paper they were the same colour and had to get a slab that was the colour he thought his patio was to prove it wasn't.
Job 3 went from a simple re pointing job to ripping up the front and back garden and starting again.
I'm busy and couldn't really fit it. They clients only had a weekend to pick all there materials and needed a lot of help.
Job 4 is one we squeezed in while we were waiting for job 3's materials.
You saw it on Facebook. We did a footpath in some Sahara sandstone and some turf. The job was in the middle of nowhere and took 2 days with all the running around.
The problems I'm having with the Marshalls sandstone is for job 3.
Is also for job 5 which is now at least a week late and job 6 which I was hoping to have done by now.
I've heard some firms won't take on jobs unless they have a minimum value of 5k.
I'm starting to understand why, lol.
loading from the bottom area and then dragging from the top.
