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DaveDCB

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To be fair I’d of laid them random pattern, and just kept going around the house, rather than rows. Each to their own!

Didn’t realise I haven’t laid Indian stone for nearly 10 years until I scrolled through the photos!
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Giles

Giles

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To be fair I’d of laid them random pattern, and just kept going around the house, rather than rows. Each to their own!

Didn’t realise I haven’t laid Indian stone for nearly 10 years until I scrolled through the photos! View attachment 41877View attachment 41878
Sized rows are so much quicker and they’re not patio packs that bobs got so they’re meant to be laid in rows
 
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6feetdown

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To be fair I’ve a lockup full of 100mm kingspan, I’ll visqueen it and Chuck them ontop before temp drops at night 👍🏼
Made a tent over a footpath last week worked well over the weekend, had to run the petrol blower through it though for 2 hrs as it wasn't drying did the trick
 
Furniss

Furniss

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Not on the scale of some of you lads but when I first moved to France I used to buy Indian flags from UK and lay a fair bit of it over here ...I had diggers parked up and I was breaking my back laying those so I learnt to say no eventually.
 
Storrsy

Storrsy

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Not on the scale of some of you lads but when I first moved to France I used to buy Indian flags from UK and lay a fair bit of it over here ...I had diggers parked up and I was breaking my back laying those so I learnt to say no eventually.
I've only ever done one patio. It was my first and it was also my last and it was my own 😃

Only photo I have is just as it started pouring with rain. Probably did the whole thing arse about face but looked alright in the end as long as you were far enough way.
 

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North West Paving

North West Paving

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Then every now and then I’m on new builds doing plot works 🙄 supposed to be starting on a site Monday subbying got 25 plots for internal drainage and block & beam floors then doing the paths and drives then fencing and turfing 🤦‍♂️ main problem I’m having I can’t find any good labourers got a 65 year old man working with me now who’s handy but plods so no good for price work

Jack
 
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DaveDCB

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nice work 👌🏻 what does wind me up is folk who move to the countryside and then are too lazy to mow the lawn on a summer’s evening, so rip it up and put plastic down! Then moan when all the roads flood! 🙄
 
Furniss

Furniss

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nice work 👌🏻 what does wind me up is folk who move to the countryside and then are too lazy to mow the lawn on a summer’s evening, so rip it up and put plastic down! Then moan when all the roads flood! 🙄
Astroturf 🙄 it's not a thing round here only bit I've ever seen was an holiday home.
Does it come with a tub of plastic insects you scatter round afterwards 😛
 
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North West Paving

North West Paving

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Thank you 🙏 I don’t like the stuff myself but I can only do what the customer asks I much prefer turfing but folk don’t like maintaining there gardens so it’s plastic all the way zero maintenance and looks the same 24/7

Jack
 
Giles

Giles

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View attachment 41889View attachment 41890View attachment 41891Then every now and then I’m on new builds doing plot works 🙄 supposed to be starting on a site Monday subbying got 25 plots for internal drainage and block & beam floors then doing the paths and drives then fencing and turfing 🤦‍♂️ main problem I’m having I can’t find any good labourers got a 65 year old man working with me now who’s handy but plods so no good for price work

Jack
Do you not lay on a full bed of bedding mortar looking at that edge on the new build patio?

Hopefully this artificial fad goes away or is limited to like 20m2 patch, going to be so much waste from it in a few years and it’s awful for nature. I had small patch in old terrace house of ours but with dog urine it stank. Even jet washed it regularly with dog wee neutraliser was on sharp sand not 5mm angular grit though.

We are laying 1200m2 turf at the moment
 
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