The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:27 pm**

thats strange i typed pay day as one word and it showed up as ripped off?
LLL ???

Posted: **Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:03 pm**

I looked at my payslip and it said "Gross Pay" yeah, i thought, you're not wrong there!

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:29 pm**

finally finished the lydd beach gravel and clay paver drive today
hard 3 weeks but the client and his neighbours are smiling
I went and got a tonne of topsoil for them today gratis and they gave us a very nice drink

thanks to giles for the oval tip worked well

and if any member of the brew cabin needs 4 tonnes of lydd beach 20mm oyster shingle I know where there is some going for a song :;):

60 ish metres of paths ended up using 78M2 of pavers a valuable lesson learned by mr lout on this one
20% waste on small paths not 10%
cheers LLL

PS note all cuts are done " onboard" got to practise what we preach :;):

Edited By lutonlagerlout on 1319290281

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:40 pm**

My brother was always a bit gung ho when it came to ordering materials. He ordered 10 tons too much MOT for a driveway once, us boys on site were not impressed.

Cracking job by the way Tony, real transformation

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:53 pm**

Nicely turned out driveway Tony you're wasted in the Building game. For future reference 1 ton of gravel covers 16m2 of driveway. Thats a mighty amount of wastage for 60m I'd normally order 62m even when laying at 45deg were your lads skipping usable cuts or something.

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:49 pm**

the drawing was to scale but no quantities were specified
i struggled scaling the area of the paths around the oval so maybe its nearer 68m2
fierce amount of off cuts but any big enough we used for halfs,I dont like trying to make off cuts fit in holes,just a waste of time IME
with the gravel it was Â£750+vat for 15 tonnes delivered or Â£880 for a 20 tonne load
because it comes from south kent i didnt want to be a tonne short (1 tonne = Â£100 delivered) and as it turned out 15 would have been tight
nice people ,you dont get many drinks these days
cheers LLL

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:58 pm**

Looks tidy it's great when you get appreciated like that. it makes all the cuts and fcuks worth it.
Nice job!

Posted: **Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:21 pm**

little willow etc in the middle of the oval in a block edged oval would be nice, hehe

gravels a bitch i used the 17m2 rule the other day but ended up going back and forth luckily i found a cracking source for it, one supplier offerton sand and gravel wanted Â£85/ton +vat needed 5 tons i reckoned, no way i was paying that. found a place inside the local big cemex quarry, bit of a pain as you have to fully ppe up and beacon on the truck and sheet up but worth it for Â£30 a ton inc vat

had every gravel you could imagine and a yard full of jewsons, travis, build base, pagetts, etc etc all local and national builders merchants bulk bags they were also bagging 25kg bags on an industrial scale. proper good find that hehe

Edited By GB_Groundworks on 1319311381

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:39 am**

GB_Groundworks wrote:little willow etc in the middle of the oval in a block edged oval would be nice, hehe

gravels a bitch i used the 17m2 rule the other day but ended up going back and forth luckily i found a cracking source for it, one supplier offerton sand and gravel wanted Â£85/ton +vat needed 5 tons i reckoned, no way i was paying that. found a place inside the local big cemex quarry, bit of a pain as you have to fully ppe up and beacon on the truck and sheet up but worth it for Â£30 a ton inc vat had every gravel you could imagine and a yard full of jewsons, travis, build base, pagetts, etc etc all local and national builders merchants bulk bags they were also bagging 25kg bags on an industrial scale. proper good find that hehe

sheet up?

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:06 pm**

Sheeting is used for a variety of reasons:

to keep materials dry;
to prevent loss of load during transit as required by Road Traffic Act 1991;
to keep materials hot;
to comply with authorisations issued under the Environmental Act 1990.

see the top sheet

big quarries are funny about it and wheel wash, you have to wear full orange hi viz suit inc trousers and hard hat in your cab, mining vehiclaes have right of way even from the left so there are 200 ton dumpers running around and loading shovels bigger than a 4 bed detach house, its wicked

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:33 pm**

It sure is wicked, i love them places

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:09 pm**

i felt for you tony on the gravel. did you have to shovel it on the truck by hand, then shovel it off again? i used to do that years ago pre tipper. 'appy days!

Posted: **Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:57 pm**

even better dan,I had to shovel it into buckets and bucket it on as the gravel was tipped on a slope on a big tarp

then just shovel it off the other end
this is the beach it came from

mainland aggregates supplied it,and the client is very happy with it,although i did mention the problems with round shingle as opposed to angular
time will tell
LLL

Posted: **Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:22 pm**

Very nice work indeed there LLL. Quality cutting, great to see.

JD

Posted: **Wed Oct 26, 2011 7:47 am**

Started this yesterday block paving out , slabs back in to customers own design and existing edges to remain well must dash I've got slabs to lay!

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