The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:15 pm**

I thought I'd show a few pics of my block paved driveway i did with the help of this forum/site.

Some of you may remmeber my thread on my garage base a while back that i had poured and the monkeys that did it made a bit of a hash of it, any way i finished building the garage (myself) and then i finally got round to sorting some paving in front of it.

I decided to go with the plaspave sorrento charcoal which i thought complemented the roof and the door quite well.

I bought a cheap block splitter off ebay to finish off the cuts, took my time and thwas really pleased with the results

heres some pics of my progress

cheers

matt

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:53 pm**

Maybe it's the angle of the photo but it looks like your bedding layer is too deep and some of the cuts are too small but it's a good job and you should be pleased with yourself.

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 3:28 pm**

Cheers Carberry

I think its probably the angle of the photo as the bedding layer was about 40mm max which is what i went by according to the guide on the site,

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 8:15 pm**

nice finish matt
i take it you didnt wack the sand then?
potential problems with rutting there mate
is that sand naturally red?
we are paying Â£140 a tonne down here for red sand
LLL

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:07 pm**

Looks good Matt. Why are there cuts at both edges? Are the walls not square too the garage?

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:09 pm**

LLL> no i did whack the sand down, unfortunately i didn't have enough sand left to do the whole drive in one go and I'd only realised on the Friday and the place where i was getting the sand from couldn't deliver till Monday so rather than not be able to do anything all weekend if it just compacted a thin layer over the whole base i did about 1/3 of it so i could get some blocks down. It was whacked down and then screeded

The sand is how it came, it was quite red, it was loose delivered from a local place just up the road (Hopkinsons) Â£30/tonne (cash) it was

ken> Yes the drive is slightly tapered but also I just thought I'd alternate where the cut blocks were so that all down one edge didn't have cut ones but I suppose in hindsite it doesn't make a difference i guess

Posted: **Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:55 pm**

Well done nonetheless

The Brew Cabin

My driveway project - sorrento charcoal - Finished