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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:39 pm
by RAPressureWashing
sy76uk wrote:Fantastic job Roger. How long doesn't it take for black limestone to go grey like that?
It shouldn't go back to the complete Grey, but you do need to re-do the colour enhancing process yearly to keep it Black, the paving will be sealed but depending on weather IE sun/UV damage etc it can start to lighten up after around 10 months Black Limestone seems to be the worst for holding it's colour in my experience.
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 9:17 pm
by RAPressureWashing
Another Black Limestone patio, this one not in good shape, the before photo show how after 2-3 attempts to re-point the paving is how the paving company left the surface for our customer. The 2nd photo is the paving rid of all the cement that was left on the surface & ready for sealing. And the last photo is the surface colour enhanced & sealed. Not much I could do with the pointing as there is 2-3 different types used and really does look like it was bodged up just to get it finished. I did feel sorry for the home-owners, they are happy just to get the paving minus the pointing they had hoped for after I'd finished.
The removal of the cement stained paving ending up taking 2 days to get it to the steel grey finish I wanted, (I had to acid etch this one) so to get a blank unmarked canvas so I could start sealing.
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:37 am
by sy76uk
That looked a nightmare job to tackle.
Can't have been easy to get rid of the pointing stains.
Very good results.
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:43 pm
by RAPressureWashing
sy76uk wrote:That looked a nightmare job to tackle.
Can't have been easy to get rid of the pointing stains.
Very good results.
It was 2 days to clean/remove around 40 sq mts worth. It would normally take a day or under, but this one was a bit of a mess.
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:38 am
by GB_Groundworks
Little Saturday job for us yesterday http://youtu.be/7nKhha2qIwU
Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2015 3:56 pm
by lutonlagerlout
nice work Giles
LLL
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:17 pm
by DNgroundworks
Rodger....do you ever re-point? or does the customer get the patios re-pointed that you clean?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:21 pm
by DNgroundworks
Nice video giles!
New truck in the background?
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:17 pm
by RAPressureWashing
DNgroundworks wrote:Rodger....do you ever re-point? or does the customer get the patios re-pointed that you clean?
No I don't re-point my pointing skills ain't that good, I have people I can recommend to customers if they need, or some say they have their own people going to do the re-pointing.
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:54 am
by lutonlagerlout
its weird ,you never see a level on anything unless its spot on :;):
LLL
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:26 am
by lemoncurd1702
lutonlagerlout wrote:its weird ,you never see a level on anything unless its spot on :;):
LLL
.... or there's meant to be a fall.
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:26 am
by mickg
ha ha I thought the same Tony 
nice work though Giles
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:57 pm
by GB_Groundworks
too right there was only one 1800mm flat bit on the entire slab took ages to find it 
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:05 pm
by DempseyLiverpool
Top work Giles
