How many lm of brett high kerb per day
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Evening all
I do a fair bit of paving and have obviously laid the high kerb before but i just cant work out how much i would get through in a day.
We have circa 135LM to do on a drive we are quoting. Mainly straight and slightly down hill in places.
What are your thoughts? Not looking for someone to price the job for me just another opinion.
Cheers
I do a fair bit of paving and have obviously laid the high kerb before but i just cant work out how much i would get through in a day.
We have circa 135LM to do on a drive we are quoting. Mainly straight and slightly down hill in places.
What are your thoughts? Not looking for someone to price the job for me just another opinion.
Cheers
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I think the laying is the quickest part. It's the mixing, setting out and screeding the bed that takes the time.
Once that's achieved you should easily bang out 8-10 lm an hour plus time for haunching.
I would allow at least 3 days for 2 men with an already prepared concrete race possibly more when you consider the stacking out of the kerbs.
Once that's achieved you should easily bang out 8-10 lm an hour plus time for haunching.
I would allow at least 3 days for 2 men with an already prepared concrete race possibly more when you consider the stacking out of the kerbs.
Cheers
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If you screed the bed its just a matter of plonking the kerbs down. Much easier than bashing them into a windrow of concrete where bashing a kerb in tends to alter the one next to it.
I lay a semi dry concrete mix and screed around 25mm of a semi dry sand/cement mix on top.
Level two paving blocks a screeding bars (about 3m) length apart to form spot levels remove them and screed to the spots. 30 kerbs laid in no time.
Much easier to maintain levels particularly when dealing with curves and changing levels.
I lay a semi dry concrete mix and screed around 25mm of a semi dry sand/cement mix on top.
Level two paving blocks a screeding bars (about 3m) length apart to form spot levels remove them and screed to the spots. 30 kerbs laid in no time.
Much easier to maintain levels particularly when dealing with curves and changing levels.
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Funnily enough I lay long runs of key kerbs in more or less the same way Mark.
I don't use the lean mix mortar and I'll use a couple of 300mm screed tubes so that when the kerbs are laid I can wet up the excess bed and haunch up.
When working on slopes I'll start from the bottom and work up to stop any of the kerbs from spacing out at the top.
I don't use the lean mix mortar and I'll use a couple of 300mm screed tubes so that when the kerbs are laid I can wet up the excess bed and haunch up.
When working on slopes I'll start from the bottom and work up to stop any of the kerbs from spacing out at the top.
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Yep, screed the concrete and lay away, then with a bit of timber settle them down into the bed. Sorted
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