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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:14 pm
by digerjones
what time on sat morning shal i come round for my load, i only live round the corner. 
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:31 pm
by Tommy
We've had all manner of people asking us for them. We've left about a trailer load where the tree fell so the homeowners can help themselves.
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:51 pm
by lutonlagerlout
nice pictures tommy
it was seriously windy for us today
trying to prep up an oversite and the labourer took off with a 80mm sheet of celotex
it knocks the bollox out of you working in the wind
LLL
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:23 pm
by Tommy
Decided to use some New Holland muscle to rip out the stump this morning, and found the tree next to it fancied a lie down.
Last bit of clearing up to do
A short while later...
I don't hold much hope for the turf, leftovers from another job, and has been laid on it's pallet for 3 weeks,
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:14 pm
by Pablo
The turf should take just fine Tommy. Grass is normally totally dormant at 6deg or lower so lack of light and water doesn't harm it. I've got away with much worse.
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 10:42 pm
by lutonlagerlout
when are you pointing up those coping stones haggi? :;):
just out of interest i see you have laid edging blocks on screed but they are against brickwork and drainage abutments
is this necessary?
I normally only lay blocks on sand and cement if its a free edge,
cheers LLL 
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:08 am
by haggistini
will point them soon LLL .. i always have layed my edges on a wet screed or a concrete bed and haunch free edge or not. is this overkill? or not good practice?
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:02 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i have done it both ways,but that method i use more for a screed board on paths etc
if the subbase is good enough there should be no need for edge blocks first
also when you wack it the edge blocks may spall if they are on concrete
looking good anyways
LLL
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:20 pm
by digerjones
could you have screeded straight off the acco's. then you would'nt have to concrete the edge blocks in.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:40 pm
by haggistini
oh the sub-base is good LLL!
good point but i just like to screed my bed off solid edges and run my whacker just over the edges until the main blocks are flush this method has'nt let me down yet i know there are quicker ways so ill have to give them a try in the future but i know this works for me and thats why i have done it this way for years
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:31 pm
by mike builder/landscaper
thats exactly the way i do it haggi, probably right with the overkill statment but like you i like to run my notched 4x2 timber over my blocks instead of the aco. set it our ways probably. to old to change and all that.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:49 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i use lines and electrical conduit now,and as the saying goes I've never looked back
horses for courses, but time is money etc etc
looks great though,thats the main thing
LLL
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 8:12 pm
by Mikey_C
the recommendation on the website is to have 50mm of concrete under non free edges.
