The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:39 pm**

Hello. This is my first post so here goes.
I had my drive block paved in August 2006 using clay block pavers. In October I noticed them sinking slightly so called my installer back to rectify the problem. All was fine, for about a month! Then it started sinking again where my car drives over it, and worse this time. The company who installed my driveway are coming out to it next week and say that they will put a 'dry mix' under the blocks??? Please help! I paid a lot of money for quite a small area and I just want it to look nice. What exactly should the company be doing to put this right? Thankyou.

Posted: **Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:07 pm**

I suspect you already know the answer....

It is clear that, unless there is a colapsing mine under your drive, the contractor didn't construct the drive properly in the first place. Do you know whatat they quoted for - and what they actually did?

Have a look at the main site to see how it should have been done.

The only proper solution may be to lift the lot and start again.

Posted: **Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:37 am**

Dry mix laying course = total disaster.

Posted: **Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:51 am**

Tony McC wrote:Dry mix laying course = total disaster.

He says he will lift the bricks and sand, lay the dry mix and then re-cover with the sand so that the surface is still flexible. I spoke to a person at Blockleys who said this is bad workmanship but my contractor insists this is the best way!

Posted: **Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:20 pm**

So: who do you want to believe? On one side you have a contractor that's ballsed it up once while on the other is a website written by a contractor with 30+ years of experience and Blockleys, the leading manufacturer of clay pavers in the UK?

Oooh! Tough choice!

Posted: **Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:34 pm**

Any contractor, especially one who made a pigs ear of a job, then having to rectify his poor standard of work will look for an easy way to "fix", im using that term loosely btw. He wont say "i'll put down a dry mix and put the pavers ontop of that, its not the best way but its what you will get" He is trying to impress his "method" upon you. As Tony said above, tough choice

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