Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:45 am
Having done a bit of a last minute job on our drive last year I bunged down some 2x1 retained by steel pins just to keep the gravel in place. Now I'd like to replace it with something more permanent and better looking.
Can someone just check over my plan
1/Lay out site with stringlines etc using tony's guide....
2/Dig out 200mm wide trench to depth of 200mm
3/Lay 200mm wide x 100mm deep bed of C7 concrete
4/Lay 50mm wide x 150 deep wood (6"x2")
5/Haunch with C20 aprox 150 wide x 100 deep.
I reckon there is about 75 linear meters of this to do, needing about 3 cube meters of concrete total half each c7 and c20 so
3 tons of gravel (2735)
2 tons of sand (1875)
825 kg of cement (810)
22 X 3.6m lengths of 50x150mm treated timber.
materials cost of £520 inc VAT so far.
I've allowed 4.5 days to do this all, 1.5 to do all the setting out and digging and 3 to do the concrete/laying kerbs. The spoil is going to backfill a retaining wall I built.
Anything really obvious I've forgotten... apart from my lack of talent and general aversion to hard labour :p
Can someone just check over my plan
1/Lay out site with stringlines etc using tony's guide....
2/Dig out 200mm wide trench to depth of 200mm
3/Lay 200mm wide x 100mm deep bed of C7 concrete
4/Lay 50mm wide x 150 deep wood (6"x2")
5/Haunch with C20 aprox 150 wide x 100 deep.
I reckon there is about 75 linear meters of this to do, needing about 3 cube meters of concrete total half each c7 and c20 so
3 tons of gravel (2735)
2 tons of sand (1875)
825 kg of cement (810)
22 X 3.6m lengths of 50x150mm treated timber.
materials cost of £520 inc VAT so far.
I've allowed 4.5 days to do this all, 1.5 to do all the setting out and digging and 3 to do the concrete/laying kerbs. The spoil is going to backfill a retaining wall I built.
Anything really obvious I've forgotten... apart from my lack of talent and general aversion to hard labour :p