The Brew Cabin

I am paving a driveway and am wondering where you can get the large metal pins to help for setting out. Can you hire them?

Also, I am edging the drive next to my property and would like to know how you use the pins here as you will have to move them when laying the edging. This will then bypass the point of setting out the levels in the first place.

Thanks in advance,

Alan

You can buy Road Pins (as they are known) from any decent Contractors' Merchant. I think we paid 90p a piece for a bundle of 24 of them them last year (Buyi9ng for a friend of mine, not for my own use).

However, you can be a cheapskate like me and use offcuts of 10 or 12mm rebar (reinforcing steel). This normally comes in 6 metre lengths, which make 5 @ 1200mm and costs considerably less than 90p, IIRC.

When working with a pin that's carrying a line, you lay as much paving/edging as possible around the pin, then lift it, move it onto an already laid section, and re-set the line before carrying on. With many jobs, it's possible to establish the pin so that it is just outside the working area, with the edging/kerb/paving laid tight against it, and so eliminate the need to re-position, but, if re-positioning is simpler - go for it! :)