The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:41 pm**

So anyway I'm normally a modest man but I just wanted to share my latest masterpiece with some of you lesser mortals out there hopefully some day you may learn a thing or two from me and start producing work like this.
I've sculpted the paving to mimic the rolling hills of the irish countyside.

Building sand is the finest I've ever used and I also made sure the centre of the paving was 150mm higher than the edges because I hate sports cars.

You'll note how I've not bothered to keep the kerb level that's for idiots also drainage channels should be higher than the area they're draining.

When levels are a bit tight airbricks make a handy place to drain to.

Half stretcher bond is the new stretcher bond so throw away the tape measure.

Now that I've blown you all out of the water I reckon you should call it quits and come work for me.:blues:

I am of course taking the piss I could never do anything as good as this. This little cracker is being installed opposite an identical sized one we're doing and I just had do share it. It's taken 5 weeks so far by one fella who's getting paid for it.
I've never had a go at anyone before but he got both barrells and a hairdrying from me today which finished with me threatening to cut his throat if I ever saw him building another driveway. Client not about but I've got their number and will be contacting them in the morning I'm sure they're aware of how bad it is.
I honestly was close to splitting him in half.

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:45 pm**

He doesn't have a plate either he footstamps the sand Damn why didn't I think of that it would save having to buy an expensive plate.

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:48 pm**

What a guy.
any idea how much hes charged?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:26 pm**

i think if you do riverdance footstamping works ok
ask the gaffer and ken :;):
I have seen drives like this all over luton
its normally someone who has done a bit of labouring for a paving gang and think they have it sussed
they keep stopping and asking questions
"what comes after the type 1"? etc etc

its a shame all round
LLL

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:26 pm**

Wow, that's bad. The guy doing it must have looked at it each day and thought 'I'm doing a great job here, they're going to be so pleased'

Were the channels laid on sand?

edit: Had that happen to me last year Tony, idiots working next door asking me how to do stuff, whether you could attach a fence to a wall and how to do it, asking if they could borrow my tools etc :laugh:

ps: Mick, stick your plastic trophy where the sun don't shine. This guy is the real deal :p :laugh:

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:35 pm**

similar thing happened to my mate. He turned up to cut a lawn, and his regular customer decided to employ some idiots instead of asking him!
The job was to lay a base for a hot tub.
A pack of wickes finest slabs arrived, a tonne of sharp and a bag of cement.
Sand was spread of the un dug out grassed area, a bag of cement was raked into the top, and the slabs on top of that.
Bubble in the spirit level must have burst, and the wacker clearly ran out of fuel before the job began.
When my mate challenged them, he was threatened and sworn at repeatedly
Hot tub people refused to install.
She had the same people back to do a drive though

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:41 pm**

glad you owned up , for a miute there i thought bloody hell pablo's work is getting better :;):

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:08 pm**

It beggers belief people who he's stealingfrom(he's not working for them) dont put a stop on him.even if you know nothing about sub base etc ,the minute they see the first blocks go down every alarm bell must be going flat out.just walking down the average steet they must see driveways and think oh shite ,we got a problem. ,,,,,,ps could it be relative so to difficult to boot him off?

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:10 pm**

Don't know what he's being paid and I doubt he's a relative some folk are oblivious to their surroundings Sussex.

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:21 pm**

Oblivious is an understatement ,you must surely mean blind !

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:25 pm**

Fecking c0ck book!!! did he have a 1.1L fiesta popular and a carrier bag of tools??? Don't show the gaffa BTW for fook sake!
:laugh:

:laugh:

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:34 pm**

Mind you he has gone below existing level on the path.... FairPlay!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:52 pm**

if he's working to that line he's digging out tomorrow !!!!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:53 pm**

Or cuttng blocks !!!!

Posted: **Tue Jul 31, 2012 11:06 pm**

I'm starting to like the curvature of the trip hazard the more I look at it :laugh:

The Brew Cabin

Driveway of the year winner - Call off the search it's a beaut