Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:25 pm
Hello everyone, I'm Jim.
I wish I had found this site prior to getting my drive laid. It looks quite good but preparation was questionable and edge finishing dreadful
I now want to extend part of the driveway and add a path where flower beds were.
My first question is related to this picture:
Should I continue the charcoal soldier course in line with the concrete slab and infill to the house brick with small chips or should I lay the soldier course to the house brick and trim around the concrete or is there a better solution overall?
My second and third and fourth questions relate to this picture taken from upstairs window:
Q2: should I keep the path in front of window and the continuation at right angles the same width or can I make the bit along the fence narrower without it looking wrong
Q3: This is probably my main question. As you can see the right hand side of the driveway is too short for a car. I want to start at the path and curve to meet the new path at the RHS. How would a craftsman do it?
Q4: The original layer left in the dividing edging and only put some mortar to hold the soldiers, which is now breaking away.
I want to remove all of my old edging and the mortar and lay edging kerb right up to the house. My neighbour is getting complete garden laid soon in block paving. Will the concrete holding my kerbs give them a problem?
Lastly is an elderly not too fit novice capable of this job?(reasonable DIY skills
).
I hope you can understand my questions and thank you for reading.
Jim
I wish I had found this site prior to getting my drive laid. It looks quite good but preparation was questionable and edge finishing dreadful
I now want to extend part of the driveway and add a path where flower beds were.
My first question is related to this picture:
Should I continue the charcoal soldier course in line with the concrete slab and infill to the house brick with small chips or should I lay the soldier course to the house brick and trim around the concrete or is there a better solution overall?
My second and third and fourth questions relate to this picture taken from upstairs window:
Q2: should I keep the path in front of window and the continuation at right angles the same width or can I make the bit along the fence narrower without it looking wrong
Q3: This is probably my main question. As you can see the right hand side of the driveway is too short for a car. I want to start at the path and curve to meet the new path at the RHS. How would a craftsman do it?
Q4: The original layer left in the dividing edging and only put some mortar to hold the soldiers, which is now breaking away.
I want to remove all of my old edging and the mortar and lay edging kerb right up to the house. My neighbour is getting complete garden laid soon in block paving. Will the concrete holding my kerbs give them a problem?
Lastly is an elderly not too fit novice capable of this job?(reasonable DIY skills
).I hope you can understand my questions and thank you for reading.
Jim