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Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 9:31 pm
by Rich H
I have 12 tins of Rompox Easy in Basalt left over from a job. Ray and I both managed to estimate the usage wrong! If anyone is interested in taking them my number is 07962 225811.
Cheers
Rich.
Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 10:09 pm
by Pablo
Is it ok to take the p#ss out of you cos I'm dying too.:laugh:
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:20 am
by Tony McC
Might be an idea to give a hint about your location, Rich, just in case anyone from Unst was thinking about taking them!
How did you manage to cock-up to that extent? What were you laying?
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:49 am
by Rich H
It took two months of back and forth to get the bloody stuff so there was no way I was going to under-order. Three-size Stonemarket slate packs. I thought 6m a tin, Ray thought 7. Turned out it was 11m/tin.
I'm in Oxfordshire.
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:51 am
by Rich H
Pablo: Yes! But I don't mind. Given that I practically had to put a gun to their heads to get the order completed and shipped I would have committed hari kari if I'd been a tin short 
Posted: Thu May 07, 2009 11:31 pm
by lutonlagerlout
just did a 23 m injun patio
thought 3 tins or romex patio would do it,was 1 lineal metre of jointing compound short!!!
the exchange rate has ramped the cost right up,its around £60 a tin now including carriage,IMO still a great product though
LLL
Posted: Fri May 08, 2009 8:59 pm
by GB_Groundworks
i have one tin and one bag of sand left from my last job, but estimated to use it for copings as well but just pointed them.
put had to go back as 4 of the 300x300 flags out of 150m2 where rocking. so will get used on this.
always better to have more than not enough.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:39 am
by lutonlagerlout
i dislike those small units gilesthey always seem slightly oversize or our of square,plus the injuns always put too many in their patio packs, i have about 15 m of leftovers,was thinking of doing a path at my allotment with them,bit of a patchwork job
LLL
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 8:20 am
by Rich H
We used the 300x300 slabs for the risers for the many steps on this job and we still ended up with a couple of dozen over. Sodding things, if a slab is going to pop, it'll be one of those. Pass the PVA, old chap 
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 8:31 am
by GB_Groundworks
yeah they are a pain, but i needed them to make the pattern work. we used them on 90 degree corners on walls with a 600x300 coping looking nice to get the lines going both ways. yeah i've learnt that now sbr those little bliters down.
plus next patio i do on a busy site with painters, kitchen fitters, plumbers and floor fitters walking all over newly laid flags i'm going to get the electric fence from home and that'll stop them. apparently scaffold planks on trellis accross the front of the patio means its ok to walk on it, or in the case of painters erect alloy scaffold. numpties
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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 3:49 pm
by lutonlagerlout
nice stuff there rich
i if i see another painter or plasterer walk near any of my patios i will spark them god help me
what is it that attracts people with paint or plaster on their shoes onto freshly laid clean patios ,i will never know
BTW the wall
what line were they using on that?
service revolver and a bottle of scotch for that brickie i think
its the only way out :;):
LMAO
LLL
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 4:37 pm
by Tony McC
Using the patented cormaic-calculator....
Stonemarket Slate Project Pack:
24 @ 600x600
35 @ 600x295
34 @ 295x295
Total area = 17.8m² excl jointing
To joint 17.8m² requires 45kg resin mortar or 55kg cement mortar, excl. wastage
So: 45kg ÷ 18m² = 2.5kg/m²
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 5:26 pm
by Pablo
Which car is yours Rich the Masserati or the Discovery.
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 3:04 am
by lutonlagerlout
Tony McC wrote:Using the patented cormaic-calculator....
Stonemarket Slate Project Pack:
24 @ 600x600
35 @ 600x295
34 @ 295x295
Total area = 17.8m² excl jointing
To joint 17.8m² requires 45kg resin mortar or 55kg cement mortar, excl. wastage
So: 45kg ÷ 18m² = 2.5kg/m²
sadly, i would rather buy another tin than add any cheaper ingredients to the joints
it shoulda been 3 tins + sand but was 2 trowelfulls short 
such is life
LLL
