Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:31 am
Hello all, this is my first post on here so thanks everyone in advance for your opinions.
I have had some paving carried out at my home by a local company. I provided the 47 sqm of rippon buff indian stone flags and the company agreed to excavate, lay and provide all materials needed to do the job.
Upon completion of the job it seemed ok to me so i paid the agreed price of £3000 to the company. (please bear in mind i know nothing about building or paving).
After a couple of weeks the grout started to become loose between the flags and a few of the flags became loose. I contacted the company and after about 5 weeks they came back and fixed down the loose flags and then proceed to put a sand and cement mix on top of the grout that was coming out.
Within 48 hours of them leaving the flags where loose again and the grouting looks a right balls in my opinion.
I then decided to get someone else's opinion who does paving himself and his opinion is it has not been laid correctly and it all needs to come up and be re-laid, here are his reasons.
1. All the patio area is leaning towards my home and all the bottom course of bricks are getting damp.
2. All the patio has been laid using spot bedding (company said that this is the only way to lay these stones as they are diffferent thickness) can you please advise?
3. There is a pea gravel trap set around all the patio which is uneven and in some parts there is none at all.
4. All my indian stone has been covered in cement and needs taking up to be cleaned properly before re-laying.
5. The majority of flags are hollow when tapped on.
6. There is no drainage
7. The paving goes above the airbricks on my home.
8 . Basically the whole job loks a mess.
I have approached the company concrned and all they are prepared to do it stick down the loose flags once more, put in a drain pipe and cut the pea gravel trap evenly. They have stated in no way are ther prepared to undertake the work once more.
So can you please give me your thoughts and advice as to whether i am being to picky or i am well within my rights to ask for the job to be done again.
I have posted many pictured of the job here for you to see before commenting.
http://s1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb428/killa1233/
Once again thanks for reading this and your help and opinions
kev!
I have had some paving carried out at my home by a local company. I provided the 47 sqm of rippon buff indian stone flags and the company agreed to excavate, lay and provide all materials needed to do the job.
Upon completion of the job it seemed ok to me so i paid the agreed price of £3000 to the company. (please bear in mind i know nothing about building or paving).
After a couple of weeks the grout started to become loose between the flags and a few of the flags became loose. I contacted the company and after about 5 weeks they came back and fixed down the loose flags and then proceed to put a sand and cement mix on top of the grout that was coming out.
Within 48 hours of them leaving the flags where loose again and the grouting looks a right balls in my opinion.
I then decided to get someone else's opinion who does paving himself and his opinion is it has not been laid correctly and it all needs to come up and be re-laid, here are his reasons.
1. All the patio area is leaning towards my home and all the bottom course of bricks are getting damp.
2. All the patio has been laid using spot bedding (company said that this is the only way to lay these stones as they are diffferent thickness) can you please advise?
3. There is a pea gravel trap set around all the patio which is uneven and in some parts there is none at all.
4. All my indian stone has been covered in cement and needs taking up to be cleaned properly before re-laying.
5. The majority of flags are hollow when tapped on.
6. There is no drainage
7. The paving goes above the airbricks on my home.
8 . Basically the whole job loks a mess.
I have approached the company concrned and all they are prepared to do it stick down the loose flags once more, put in a drain pipe and cut the pea gravel trap evenly. They have stated in no way are ther prepared to undertake the work once more.
So can you please give me your thoughts and advice as to whether i am being to picky or i am well within my rights to ask for the job to be done again.
I have posted many pictured of the job here for you to see before commenting.
http://s1205.photobucket.com/albums/bb428/killa1233/
Once again thanks for reading this and your help and opinions
kev!