02-03-2015, 12:43 PM
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Just sat down and costed out this wall, if the wall was layed out in a straight line it would be double skin 6 metres long by 60 cm high, it took 500 bricks ( of 3 types) £296.00, footings and mortar £70.00 and Brick lights and cable £55.00, grand total £421.00. If I had paid a Bricklayer to build it, I guess with the mixing and what not, he (or she) would have averaged a brick a minute, so about a days work, or a shade over £200.00 @'£25.00 per hour, this would have pushed the cost up to a ball park £650.00, seems a lot when put down on paper.09-04-2015, 11:59 AM
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when I started laying this Patio, I put in a 100mm concrete sub-base, and laid a boarder of 70mm tall Block Pavers, and Dished Drainage Channel, these were laid on a 10mm mortar bed, giving a total height above base of 80mm. The original intention was to lay Cobble Pavers onto a compacted 10mm Sharp Sand bed to a compatible height with the border, but the Wife decided that this would cause a maintenance issue with weeds finding there way in, so we bought some fancy Riven slabs to be set in mortar.The problem is the slabs vary in thickness between 32mm and 36mm, when you minus say 35mm from the 80mm border height you, would be left needing a 45mm mortar bed which is far to thick to lay slabs accurately, so I have had to go over the whole area again, laying another 35mm of concrete, to give me a mortar depth of 10mm below the slabs.
What a pain in the aspect, when folks change plans.
16-04-2015, 10:51 PM
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Had to install a Soakaway, It is like a large Beer Crate, 1000mm long by 500mm wide, and 400mm deep, wrapped in weed protector to stop silt entering, a lateral drain sits above, and the edifice sits below the slabs, there is so much going on below the surface, no one will ever know just how much graft went on.
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