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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 8:35 pm
by LunerJim
Does anybody know if curved coping stones are sold ready cut?
We plan to have a granite 2.4m circle with a retaining wall built around some of the circle. We are looking for coping stones that will go on the top of the wall to fit the radius. Pictures of this sort of thing are in gardening books, but do the coping stones exist ready cut?
Thanks.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:23 pm
by Pablo
no because no two radius will be the same and the thickness of the wall just adds to the variables. You'll need a mason to make them up on site when he builds the wall and I'll tell you now it's going to be very expensive.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:27 pm
by DNgroundworks
We make our own give me a min ill post some pics of a gateway job.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:28 pm
by Pablo
I've just had a thought are you looking at a Marshalls brochure if you are then the copings are actually the outer ring of the paving circle and if this is the finish you want then you'll need to buy a bigger circle.
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:42 pm
by DNgroundworks
one 100k gateway/driveway 
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:44 pm
by DNgroundworks
OH FFS, cba that will have to do
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:49 pm
by DNgroundworks
closer shot
we made cardboard templates for the whole first to make sure the curves were kept sweet, then transferred the templates to the slabs of stone.
Each piece of the stone in them walls was chipped to shape, took the poor bugger 4 months and 100t of stone he was £200.00 per day!
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:42 pm
by Carberry
DNgroundworks wrote:closer shot
we made cardboard templates for the whole first to make sure the curves were kept sweet, then transferred the templates to the slabs of stone.
Each piece of the stone in them walls was chipped to shape, took the poor bugger 4 months and 100t of stone he was £200.00 per day!
Poor bugger?
I'd do almost any job for £200 a day :laugh:
Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:34 pm
by parishpaver
£200 a day on day work....
it'd take me 6 months!
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:17 am
by London Stone Paving
Pablo wrote:I've just had a thought are you looking at a Marshalls brochure if you are then the copings are actually the outer ring of the paving circle and if this is the finish you want then you'll need to buy a bigger circle.
May be cheaper to get the coping stones bespoke made than buying a whole circle
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:23 pm
by local patios and driveway
If you boys are working for yourselves and not taking £200 a day then you are doing something wrong somewhere. 
Looks great that does mr noblett. We never see that style round here
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:36 pm
by lutonlagerlout
things have changed dan
i regularly used to get odd little jobs that would be worth £2-300 a day
if you charge that much nowyou wont be working much round these parts
I would rather plough profit back into the business and just take a reasonable wage
loads of brickies chipies and sparks up here working for a ton a day now
LLL
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:51 pm
by local patios and driveway
Yeah brickies etc, not out taking the risk, they contract. cmon tony, you must price yourself at £200 a day on your own work?
I think people have driven their own values down. Hold out for your money, you are worth it.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 6:19 pm
by parishpaver
On my own work yeah.....gotta be pricing myself at more than £200 a day.
Don't question the quality of those walls at all but if there's 80 sq. meters of face work thats pushing it....over 4 months? Less than a meter a day for £200. I'll quit the stress of paying wages and seeking work and take that rate any day of the week.
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:14 pm
by DNgroundworks
faced both sides? 600mm wide? Semi dry stone? Pillars? copings? stone dug straight out of the ground in big awkward chunks, cropped and shaped by one man from November to February?
You reckon?