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Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:50 pm
by jessestrum
can anyone help, in the near future we are resurfacing the d rive probably block paving the drive is sloping about 20 deg when you park the car you have to leave in gear and put hand brake on good and proper, can the drive have a ramp or small hollow gulley across to help stop the car rolling down if you forget to leave it in gear
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:00 pm
by GB_Groundworks
you could have a bump stop but you'd have to drive over it every time straining your clutch on the way up.
Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:04 pm
by jessestrum
hi thanks thats a very good point i never thought about the clutch
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:36 pm
by Tony McC
The usual solution is to have a check strip running across the drive on the downhill side of the front and/or rear wheels.
I've seen this done, somewhat clumsily, by inserting a course of 80mm pavers into the 50/60mm body pavers, but a more elegant solution is to use Keycheck pavers from Marshalls....
(image courtesy of Marshalls)
....or a dished channel paver summat like....
Of the two, the Keycheck is more effective. and you only need a single course, not the double-bump effect shown above.
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:23 pm
by jessestrum
thankyou tony the check strip is an excellent idea
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:38 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I think I mentioned it before but in the usa every car parking space actually has a wheel stop sticking up from the road ahead of the kerb,it seems like such a good idea for fail drivers like me but i have never seen it anywhere else??
LLL
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:24 pm
by GB_Groundworks
funny you should say that...
yes i am now that sad that i take photos of paving after being on this site for a year
new big yellow storage just been built in sheffield, my stuffs in there for a month
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:26 pm
by irishpaving
lol...is that a woman and child bay 
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 10:58 pm
by lutonlagerlout
no its giles ex girlfriend
he ran her over in a hymac 
LLL
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:20 pm
by GB_Groundworks
she was skinner than that haha.....