nod Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 We have just finished the drive 410 mtrs of paving 30 ton of sand My wife has pulled most of the paving on her little truck A monumental effort considering she is on 9 stone wet through 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Really good result, well done both of you? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, joe90 said: Really good result, well done both of you? Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Eh up lad, you're a pair of grafters aren't you? It's not as if you don't both work at demanding jobs as well. You may have a Sarsaparilla on me at your local tonight..... Preston - home of Temperance and all that eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tin Soldier Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 looks really great have you had previous experience laying this type of driveway, or did you learn on the job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC45 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 looks really good - we may follow your lead here, maybe next summer though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizzie Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Well done both of you. Looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 1 hour ago, AnonymousBosch said: Eh up lad, you're a pair of grafters aren't you? It's not as if you don't both work at demanding jobs as well. You may have a Sarsaparilla on me at your local tonight..... Preston - home of Temperance and all that eh? Ha ha Thanks Ian 52 minutes ago, Tin Soldier said: looks really great have you had previous experience laying this type of driveway, or did you learn on the job? I’ve done most things over the years I trained as a plasterer many years ago and floor screeding tiling was all part of the job Once you have screeded a section You only need to place the blocks Down The trick is compacting everything as you go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 This shows the difference between an artist and an engineer. Had I been doing it, it would all be dead square, an exact integer number of blocks wide totally avoiding the need to cut all those slithers at an angle and get it looking nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, ProDave said: This shows the difference between an artist and an engineer. Had I been doing it, it would all be dead square, an exact integer number of blocks wide totally avoiding the need to cut all those slithers at an angle and get it looking nice. I couldn't decide on the pattern for our drive paving, so drew up the whole drive in Autocad and made several different versions, with different angles and layouts. When I gave them to the chap that laid the drive he couldn't believe that anyone would spend hours drawing the layout of block pavers before laying them... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, JSHarris said: I couldn't decide on the pattern for our drive paving, so drew up the whole drive in Autocad and made several different versions, with different angles and layouts. When I gave them to the chap that laid the drive he couldn't believe that anyone would spend hours drawing the layout of block pavers before laying them... I will be tiling our hall and utility room floor soon with slate tiles of varying size. I intend to model that on CAD so I have a worked out pattern to follow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfrdave Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Looks well @nod credit to you both. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Punter Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Cutting in looks neat. Did you have chamber covers? If so, photo please so we can check... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 9 minutes ago, Mr Punter said: Cutting in looks neat. Did you have chamber covers? If so, photo please so we can check... I bought a Belle maxi splitter pretty good I’ll put it on eBay shortly I have a makita masonry saw for the smaller cuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 Yes there was a lot of cuts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oz07 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 @ProDave @JSHarris it's a disease isn't it. I'm by no means a perfectionist or a boffin but I can't understand these patio layouts or anything like that for the life of me. Everything has to be logical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Declan52 Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 But if you have a sweep in your edging like has been done here then your always going to end up with various different size cuts. Curves in brick paving also looks a lot nicer than a series of lines. It also shows how much time and effort that @nod and his wife put into this job. Look at the size of some of them cuts, there tiny. I know a lot of guys who would have just filled them gaps with sand and walked away. Hats off to both of you. Are you going to seal it up with anything or let it weather first??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 39 minutes ago, Declan52 said: But if you have a sweep in your edging like has been done here then your always going to end up with various different size cuts. Curves in brick paving also looks a lot nicer than a series of lines. It also shows how much time and effort that @nod and his wife put into this job. Look at the size of some of them cuts, there tiny. I know a lot of guys who would have just filled them gaps with sand and walked away. Hats off to both of you. Are you going to seal it up with anything or let it weather first??? It’s really nice of you to say that Declan Thank you A lot of Time was spent cutting and following the curves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Very organic, those sweeping lines. Not good anyway to have straight lines, all the chi flows away from the house. Feng Shui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nod Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 28 minutes ago, Onoff said: Very organic, those sweeping lines. Not good anyway to have straight lines, all the chi flows away from the house. Feng Shui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NSS Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Looks awesome ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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