Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Previous owner installed it. Outside tap is there on other properties and he moved it into the garage. Looks proper rubbish. It's going to be re-routed through the side of the house once the pavings finished.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Another tonne of type 1 put down and raked level. That makes 6 tonne. Think i've over engineered this 
Seems level enough with around 100mm depth (50 brick, 50mm sharp sand) in all but the corner nearest the door, so will just get a couple of small bags to make that level.
Getting compacted along with the sand and blocks hopefully on Sunday.
Btw saw the postman today. I took the temporary path up so I could level the area undetneath them and he would not walk on the gravel he chose instead to balance himself on the border blocks and almost fell into next doors bush. Silly sod.
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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Tell him that you are having it put in especially for him. 
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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Sand down:
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Pattern going down:
Getting there:
And 99% done:
Unfortunately the wacker plate cracked a few of the light grey blocks which was rather annoying, so that's getting sorted tomorrow.
Certainly looks better than what we had before:
[Edited on 21-09-2014 by Ben G]
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Pop
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That looks great, a real improvement.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Cheers Pop. Certainly beats having cats shitting on that bark stuff constantly drove me insane!
Postmans gonna be happy as Larry tomorrow. Would love to see the cunts face.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Oh and i'm also looking for ideas for a fence/railing between mine and next doors front.
Currently have some small border fencing to go back there but they look rubbish. Either a picket fence or some black railings could look good i guess?
[Edited on 21-09-2014 by Ben G]
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Ben G
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Literally just finished! Managed to get everything level and replaced the cracked blocks. Had the wacker plate going until 7pm. Bet the neighbours were well pissed off
Fine sand down and spread. Will brush it over again tomorrow and hope we have some breeze to get rid of the rest.
Made a right old mess of everything. Including the missus' fiesta luckily she's away so doesn't matter.
Going to seal it this weekend to give it a nice dark finish and to stop any staining.
[Edited on 22-09-2014 by Ben G]
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Ben G
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And finally...
Loads of room left, so Mr postman doesn't complain.
Was really easy to reverse on to it, although not sure the missus would manage, so may leave mine on it until we sort out a dropped Kerb.
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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Impressed Ben. Not fancy doing the whole drive?
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Ben G
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I did think about it Brett, but felt it would be too much of a ballache taking the tarmac up and also having to deal with the tarmac being part of next doors driveway also.
Would've definitely done that if we weren't doing the work ourselves though.
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Andrew
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Looks good Ben!
I like how you are making the postman walk around the Fiesta
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whitter45
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Registered: 15th Nov 02
Location: Norton
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Looks great should speak with next door and see if they would split the costs to the whole drive
Great work
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Ben G
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Cheers lads  I reckon that tarmac bit would be a pain to do though as theres 2 drain covers and also a small drain in the middle near the garage door on my side :-(
Can't believe how much better the front of the house looks now. Definitely need some form of fencing out up. I tried the small stuff that was there before but it looked pants so pulled it back out.
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