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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:35 pm
by Forestboy1978
Cheers Haggi.
Yeah I like those grannit sets. Think the customer wanted to keep costs down so they wanted shingle. Gonna turf the area alongside next week.
Thinking of doing a course on resin bonding and doing my mums driveway with resing bonded aggregate of some sort and bordering it with sets! Got alot on though, might be a while b4 I get the chance!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:37 pm
by Forestboy1978
DNgroundworks wrote:I wouldnt worry about the hollow sounding flag, unless its moving then leave it be.
To get sandstone to proper stick to the bedding a bond bridge needs to be used IMO.
Ok cheers for that info. I'll look up what a bond bridge is lol.
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:38 pm
by haggistini
Like SBR
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:40 pm
by Forestboy1978
Ahh ok!
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:48 pm
by London Stone Paving
Nice work, looks very clean. the hollow sounding slab could just be loose cleft on the stone.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:59 pm
by lutonlagerlout
tidy looking work FB 
I'd be pleased with that
the flag that sounds hollow may have laminated
unless it is moving leave well alone
ps i always lay sandstone on a wet mix
LLL
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 7:48 am
by Forestboy1978
Cheers guys
LLL I found that when the mix was too wet it sometimes splashed when I tapped it down and I had to scrape it out of the joints cos it rised up! What about adding 1 shovel of builders sand in with mix next time? Would this help with the bonding without reducing compression strenght too much or needing to make it too wet?
yeah I was astonished to see how much the colour came out in those flags when I scrubbed with soapy water and a wire brush in a circular motion. Took 2 of us about 4 hours though. Gotta be an easier way!