For the lol's or alternatively why I DIY rather than pay people to do things

 

I had the drive brick-weaved about many years ago - but in the last few years the manhole cover seems to be rising out of the drive

 

 

Of course that's pretty unusual and I suspected that it was actually the area around it was getting lower but wondered how that was happening

 

So I removed a load of blocks and then the manhole cover and found my issue - the frame was sitting on what remained of the original mortar a very uneven mess - bedded down on 4 blobs of silicone!!! FFS

 

So there was my smoking gun - the sand was being washed into the manhole when we had a downpour and there wasn't a car on top of it.

 

So I got the concrete grinder out and leveled the top off

 

 

Bedded it down on some mortar and threw the sand back in - a few sting lines to get the level and the pile of blocks can go back in

 

 

All done

 

 

 

Great job, looks much better 👍 

Well done - one of those jobs you could have brought someone in and they would have bodged it again.

2 hours ago, markc said:

Well done - one of those jobs you could have brought someone in and they would have bodged it again.

 

Exactly my thoughts - there is a company doing brick-weave drives locally but I'm not impressed with their prep work - I reckon those drives will soon suffer with tram-lining where cars are repeatedly parked in the same place