The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:52 am**

mickg wrote:YAWN . . just for the record I am not really bothered you think I am a knob as we never ever leave a job until everything has been made tidy each evening including sweeping up any debris . . . unlike yourself.

I got a large job off the back of that thread as the customer who read the comments knew I would be very clean and tidy. . . unlike "YOU" :p

Ive done 3 other driveways along the same road after that one... All thanks to quality work and "fair" prices.. I dont charge extra because my supplier gave me a plastic trophy... Get a bali award then i will be convinced...

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:08 am**

Mick and Lpad:

LLL:

Everyone else:

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:10 am**

What......no comment?

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 9:47 am**

good old judge judy there!

pink, there is a small tree in your steps at the bottom. you can argue that that is where the water drains to. the local authority would be happy with that!

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:00 am**

mickg wrote:not trying to tell you how to suck eggs but its been in force since 1st October 2008

the permitted development rights that allow householders to pave their front gardens for hard standings without planning permission has changed.

Planning permission is now required to lay traditional impermeable driveways that allow uncontrolled runoff of rainwater from the front gardens onto the road because this can contribute to flooding and pollution of watercourses

If a new driveway or parking area is constructed using permeable surfaces such as permeable block paving, porous asphalt or gravel or if the water is able to soak into the ground via soil borders or a soak away you will not require planning permission

These new planning rules also apply to where existing hard standing are being replaced and apply to hard surfaces exceeding 5 square metres in area

I think there is only me installing drainage in my area as every new driveway I see being installed does not have any and I am yet to hear of any enforcement notices in my area as there are not enough local authority staff to police the legislation

Like ive said before, i always price for it and explain to the customer etc etc, but most of the time they decide to chance it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:13 am**

Ha ha nice one carberry

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:18 am**

Theses iPhones are good but I can't get fcuk all done when the thread is this hot!

:laugh:

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:23 am**

Mickg has made a impression since his return from exile ,got the exchange of comments moving fast,and some light abuse.....

MSH

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 10:49 am**

Its all good fun, im gonna step into the ring and post some pictures....bare with me a while...

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:06 am**

First up a driveway and landscaping job we did in August last year, the customer had us replace all drainage up to boundaries, manholes, underpin the garage? Good job and fantastic customer.

My younger brother leveling the Type 1 - Little belle wacker for you there Mick G! F/R Plate just out of shot

Is it ok that the reg plates are still in view?

Cant beleive he had us replace everything apart from the knackered old wall at the front, behind the 150mm post?

We ended up digging of all the old grass and soil and re-turfed the lot

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:21 am**

Sent home today -5 this morning, so ill blast some pictures whilst im in the mood.

Next up a big job 2mil plus for a local very wealthy guy.

Pond/Lake nearly 18ft deep at one end, drove on this in the navara last winter!

Teak boarding, he wanted a quay side effect?

Stone gabions, i liked doing these, i prefer to stack the stone in, but he had us just tip the rock in? I suppose that most of the time they are under water.

KX080-3 one for Giles, great machine, client bought it one afternoon when he had nothing to do i think, you can just see the mini electricity 3-phase substation we have build, its being cladded with cedar wood, way over spec compared to what the utilities wanted, but beats a flat roof, red brick jobbie?

New road, kerbs and gullies down to the guys gaff, if you look through the gap in the hedge at 11 o'clock you can just see the field has been stripped of topsoil, this was for all the services and drainage we put in down the field, and like an idiot i didnt take any pictures!

Ill try and get some pictures of the gateway we have been working on, on the same job, its taken the dry stone waller 4 months to build it, hes had a local quarry cut stone to 100mm thick in big slabs and we have cut them down to size to make flags....al for a bin store.

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:30 am**

Nice work dan

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:33 am**

Some pictures of part finished jobs, that annoyingly i never go back and take proper photos oh and a bust gas main! nice!

Some sett edging in progress, the rest was eventually tarmac'd.

Curves and circle, posted pictures of the finished job, but found this on my phone

Small path job in Blackburn....never working in that area again....

Few more

Just finished easi pointing

Sleeper retainer, easy to build and look ok i reckon

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:34 am**

And the service pipe that looks like its going to cost me 700 quid...bad times

The other one we broke was around 75mm in diameter, man it stunk

Posted: **Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:41 am**

dan, lovely work there. Love that kubota. I bet that was a joy to use!
have you had the gas repaired? what did it cost. how quick did they come out?
they have to go in the house to "flush" it through don't they??
on that driveway, where you went up the side up against the concrete posts, did you have to chip away at the concrete much?
I never fill my post holes to top. makes it easier later on in life!

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