Russdl

I think you’ll find he’s @ToughButterCup now and still yarning.

Good luck ?

In a nutshell, it can’t. As an alternative, and DIY’able, what about timber or timber composite cladding? Or any other DIY’able cladding for that matter. It would achieve your end game of hiding some of the brickwork.

@Makeitstop that is quite astonishing. Where are you in the country? If you’re down south perhaps it would be worth getting a quote for the bloke who did ours? Would you do the prep prior to zinc yourself? It’ll save a bob or ten.

@Russell griffiths yep it’s boiled down to 150x6 flat plate with welded rebar stakes. Sloping garden bit as @joe90 suggested (because yet again I couldn’t work that out for myself ?)

Never heard of that, I shall research further.

@PeterStarck and @PeterW Thanks, so it works out roughly twice the price for the galvanised stuff with a bit of jiggerey pokery re VAT delivery, time elapsed. I'm pretty sure I'll go for the mild steel for the path alongside the house and maybe revisit the Everedge for the pretty bits.

@PeterStarck They look good, they're a bit shy with their prices. Do you know what their m price is for 150mm high?

My roof tiles are zinc standing seam, I think I'll stick to the mild steel ?

No, long gone. I see where you’re going with that though.

@joe90 yep, I was already thinking along those lines. Another sleepless night beckons as this goes round and round in my head for the next many hours! I can over think anything.

Exactly, but when I look down at a muddy rubbly hole I forget that stuff. Thanks for reminding me!

You're right of course, it could grade down towards the gravel boards, I guess I was concerned about the level slowly creeping up over the years and covering the gravel boards if I were to do that. So a 6m 150x8mm mild steel sheet it is I reckon, in fact 6mm as no vehicles will get near. Thanks both ?

No, the other side is a fence that is going steadily downhill and I want to keep the garden below the gravel board tops. Rubble at the moment but it'll probably end up planting. That would be where I'd seen it before. Never thought of that, never remembered that I'd ever seen it until Russell mentioned it. This place can be really brilliant at times. Most times

@Russell griffiths what a great idea! 150mm will not be wide enough, I guess I could get 300mm wide. Or to 150mm's welded together... Great idea. Take a gold star.⭐

@Makeitstop Wow. I'm not the expert but boy that is expensive. Who quoted? Big company?

@joe90 the plan is to finish the path in 20mm Cotswold stone, its just compacted type 1 at the mo. The garden strip is a long thin triangle going from the apex that is nothing wide and 4" below the path to about 3' wide about 8" below the path (all approximate)

@Makeitstop Is it £3K? If it is, and just for the zinc then yes, I'd say it definitely is expensive. If it is and it includes the battens, ply and downpipes etc? Then it's getting better. Actually, where does the rain water go? From the zinc cladding aspect it looks relatively straight forward.

@Makeitstop so what is it, about 14m2 of zinc? You're going to say about £3K I guess.

I need to separate a path from a thin strip of garden. The path is level, the strip of garden starts about 4" below the path and slopes down to end about 8" below the path. The thin strip needs to slope down to follow the line of a fence. Whats the best way to separate the path from the garden to ensure they stay that way? I was thinking of 12" gravel boards concreted in. Any better ideas?

Yep, as I said it was a friend of a friend (actually someone who did work for a friend of a friend) and that price was just for the fitted zinc and best guess at what just the roofing panels would have cost as they are pretty easy to make and fit. It was all finished about a year ago. We looked at aluminium when we realised Tata wasn't going to work out. That was going to be very expensive but more significantly, it was a big company and their T&C's seemed pretty onerous, that may have just been standard blurb and once on site they would have been more flexible but it put me off. Then a friend put me in touch with a friend who had a man with a van who did zinc work. He was brilliant.

@gc100 that looks really good, especially the concealed gutter. Concealed gutters were on our wish list but I chickened out as things were getting more and more complex for us.

@Makeitstop yes it was a good couple of hundred m2 and it was a friend of a friend that did it which I think helped. It became impossible to compare prices because of all the ‘specials’ we were having that could only have been made on site.

@Makeitstop It took around two weeks to fit the zinc. That does not include the substrate. It’s tricky to give an accurate m2 figure for the zinc because of everything else that was done as well (gutters, down pipes, window cills and reveals, corner details to house etc etc) However it was circa £80/m2 for the supply and fit of the zinc roofs and walls.

@Gus Potter I think you’ll find the blue bin is actually not quite in line. I’ll have a word with it on the morning it clearly needs to smarten itself up. The zinc definitely has the potential to be unforgiving, 0.8mm thick, and as you mentioned earlier, without careful detail at the gutter you’ll get a definite line appearing over time where the two zinc layers overlap.