laying driveway without MOT / hardcore etc Will it crack?
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Our neighbour is having their old driveway replaced. The workmen are using no digging out / hardcore of any description. What they have done is lay reinforcement mesh, concrete, stone. It just lays on the compacted earth.
I'm not saying it's bad or good, it will probably be ok would be my thought. But obviously paving sites say about using MOT etc. The thing is, my missus is suggesting we use the same people, and stones to get ours done too, so it matches. Which means now the methodology is important!
So question is, will this in reality be ok? Will the mesh hold it together? Or will it allow the stones to crack?
I'm not saying it's bad or good, it will probably be ok would be my thought. But obviously paving sites say about using MOT etc. The thing is, my missus is suggesting we use the same people, and stones to get ours done too, so it matches. Which means now the methodology is important!
So question is, will this in reality be ok? Will the mesh hold it together? Or will it allow the stones to crack?
its for two cars. One a modern range rover!
thanks vrx, I didn't even know the slabs would have a right or wrong way! There is a central entry between our houses (you can see the gap where the white fence ends in the second to last pic), then they peel off to their side and we peel off to ours.
The levels of the site are a bit all over the place (even originally) so I think they're trying to even it out by using more / less mortar, as they didn't dig out to get a consistent level.
However having had a similar issue with our kitchen floor that has cracked to f
k as the tile fitters did a similar thing and made up a dropping away floor with thick grout which didn't work.
are there no good tradesmen left...!
thanks vrx, I didn't even know the slabs would have a right or wrong way! There is a central entry between our houses (you can see the gap where the white fence ends in the second to last pic), then they peel off to their side and we peel off to ours.
The levels of the site are a bit all over the place (even originally) so I think they're trying to even it out by using more / less mortar, as they didn't dig out to get a consistent level.
However having had a similar issue with our kitchen floor that has cracked to f
k as the tile fitters did a similar thing and made up a dropping away floor with thick grout which didn't work.are there no good tradesmen left...!
Well just to finish this off (for my own future ref so I don't forget the numbers)
You were right they have been laid 'upside down' (I accept this may not matter)
I wasn't too impressed with their finishing off bit where they concreted this triangular bit, this side of the small bricks. Apparently they ran out of flagstones (the neighbour ordered these directly himself though so not their issue I suppose):
However as you can see of this whole view of shared area it doesn't look very pretty anyway:
Ended up charging over 5k labour, it was approx 60 square metres.
You were right they have been laid 'upside down' (I accept this may not matter)
I wasn't too impressed with their finishing off bit where they concreted this triangular bit, this side of the small bricks. Apparently they ran out of flagstones (the neighbour ordered these directly himself though so not their issue I suppose):
However as you can see of this whole view of shared area it doesn't look very pretty anyway:
Ended up charging over 5k labour, it was approx 60 square metres.
Edited by CoolHands on Monday 5th June 21:52
Well, to be honest (I didn't really want to say!) the actual price went up to 7k. He was quoted 5k but said they starts putting the price up as the base (concrete etc) ended up getting deeper and deeper as they tried to even out the area, and also as (not shown) they raised it higher near the house so water would drain back towards the drain.
He paid about 1.5k for materials I believe.
I didn't say anything negative to him as don't want to make him feel bad.
He paid about 1.5k for materials I believe.
I didn't say anything negative to him as don't want to make him feel bad.
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