Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:13 pm
It never rains but it pours!
Mate of mine has asked me to help them out. Big roundabout at the end of their street, about 15m dia. Heavy slope down from left to right as viewed from the splay. Private road and majority of the ones down the street won't contribute.
When viewed from l/h/s - lowest point (ie 9 o'clock if the splay is at 6 o clock) the level left to right is very different too (ie sloping from 12 o clock to 6 o clock). We can grade the grass/muddy mess in the centre to suit as they want it grassed.
I've got the tarmac sorted (the road needs re-doing) but we need to build a retaining wall around the low spots (with weeps etc, done properly and reinforced.
The issue is that the wall will need to slope down from about 1 o clock (anticlockwise) to about 10 o'clock, bottoming out, then slowly upwards to 5 o clock (which is lower than 1 o clock. We can't just build up the lowest point to the highest as it is a lot of courses, maybe 15-20 which will be a horrific barrier to the person whose drive is opposite. Normally we would have just stepped it but the central lawn precludes that totally (the runout is 15 courses to zero at the ends if you know what i mean).
Anyone got a bright idea - neither I or my brickie (very good but used to conservatories/extensions etc) have come upon this situation before.
Many thanks chaps, i'll try to draw and post a diagram later on (won't be wonderful!)
Mate of mine has asked me to help them out. Big roundabout at the end of their street, about 15m dia. Heavy slope down from left to right as viewed from the splay. Private road and majority of the ones down the street won't contribute.
When viewed from l/h/s - lowest point (ie 9 o'clock if the splay is at 6 o clock) the level left to right is very different too (ie sloping from 12 o clock to 6 o clock). We can grade the grass/muddy mess in the centre to suit as they want it grassed.
I've got the tarmac sorted (the road needs re-doing) but we need to build a retaining wall around the low spots (with weeps etc, done properly and reinforced.
The issue is that the wall will need to slope down from about 1 o clock (anticlockwise) to about 10 o'clock, bottoming out, then slowly upwards to 5 o clock (which is lower than 1 o clock. We can't just build up the lowest point to the highest as it is a lot of courses, maybe 15-20 which will be a horrific barrier to the person whose drive is opposite. Normally we would have just stepped it but the central lawn precludes that totally (the runout is 15 courses to zero at the ends if you know what i mean).
Anyone got a bright idea - neither I or my brickie (very good but used to conservatories/extensions etc) have come upon this situation before.
Many thanks chaps, i'll try to draw and post a diagram later on (won't be wonderful!)
