Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:23 am
Good morning !
I have just finished a small pathway using Rochester brick sett slabs and some reclaimed roll top Victorian Edging supplied by the customer.
Orientation and layout of edging was done to customers request and is not what I would have preferred to have done (not sure how to post a photo using a weblink) but is all haunched and fixed well onto a dry-ish sand cement base.
All went well until customer came home and asked what I was going to insert into the gaps in the Edging where they butted up to each other. I said "nothing" as my understanding of these edgings (and on the half dozen times I've fitted them before) is that they just butt up to each other.
The customer is ADAMANT that this will encourage weed growth and that the gap will destroy the edgings through freeze/thaw in winter. Nothing I can say to him will dissuade him - and I haven't been paid....
Am I wrong ?????? Should these be pointed/grouted ? And if so is there anything I can use to satisfy this customer ? I have no wish to remove everything and re-set as per customers wishes.
Thanks
Mark
I have just finished a small pathway using Rochester brick sett slabs and some reclaimed roll top Victorian Edging supplied by the customer.
Orientation and layout of edging was done to customers request and is not what I would have preferred to have done (not sure how to post a photo using a weblink) but is all haunched and fixed well onto a dry-ish sand cement base.
All went well until customer came home and asked what I was going to insert into the gaps in the Edging where they butted up to each other. I said "nothing" as my understanding of these edgings (and on the half dozen times I've fitted them before) is that they just butt up to each other.
The customer is ADAMANT that this will encourage weed growth and that the gap will destroy the edgings through freeze/thaw in winter. Nothing I can say to him will dissuade him - and I haven't been paid....
Am I wrong ?????? Should these be pointed/grouted ? And if so is there anything I can use to satisfy this customer ? I have no wish to remove everything and re-set as per customers wishes.
Thanks
Mark
