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[lanason]

Re: Pix please

I dont think the van will be full of umbrellas - i'm sure MBY or YW would not hire a man with a van to drive all over the country - delivering one here and one there.

so we a safe to assuem it is a general area/regional courier company. Thus will be full of all sorts of things from umbellas to eletric motors and all things in between. So dont confuse the poor lad ..... jump in your car and drive up to give him a hand after work to fix it..

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[jimi]

Cavitation

Bluidy 'ell Alistair who did you hide under the slabs, must have been a large lady .. bet she was from Beith, they're all big there? Normal practice is to let decomposition occur before slabbing otherwise cavitation will occur. Nae wonder the van driver did a runner, he probably needs counselling.

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[duncan]

not another flood surely?

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[Alistairr]

Re: Cavitation

SSsssshhhhhhhh.. Don't tell everyone..

It was actually a Killie Woman.. sssshhhhhh......



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[Bejasus]

Nah, same one. Almost repaired now. Just the decoration and the new floor.

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[MainlySteam]

Re: Pix please

Alistair's problem has brought to light a solution to a matter that has been puzzling me for some time. A number of forumites have initials for their monniker and many have been easy to work out - like QSIV took about 2 milliseconds, nice and easy. However, I have been totally stumped trying to work out TCM.

But now I have it, at last, quite obviously it stands for <font color=red>T</font color=red>he <font color=red>C</font color=red>oncrete <font color=red>M</font color=red>an.

John

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[jfm]

slab and tickle

Kwite accurate Mainlysteam, apart from need to delete the syllable "crete"

These slabs, were they pour-moulded concrete made by a corner shop, or were they pressure cured (like proper marshall branded stuff, etc)? The latter are loads stronger, so praps get them next time?

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[jimi]

Re: slab and tickle

JFM you is missing ra point .. ra slabs are only as good as the base on which they are laid. Alistair is obviously a skinflint and has buggered up by false economies on porous hardcore.

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[Alistairr]

Re: slab and tickle

I deal with Furniture, not Slabs, i don't know what they are made of..

But they are Marshall's Heritage Calder Brown Slabs 600x600 and 600x300.

Make of them what you want..


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[tcm]

Re: porous hardcore

um, the whole point of hardcore is that it is porous- it hold it's structure in wet or dry conditions. Whereas mud or earth varies. It's for this reason that "retaining walls" fall down. Peopls makem nice and strong and then backfillem with soil. The wall fals down after a few years. So they makem super duper strong with steel innit, backfill with soil and the wall still falls down after five or ten years.

For a retaining wall to "hold back" a hill field of soil, it needs to be backfilled with loads and loads of hardcore - giving an escape route down the whole height of the wall and allowing for the silting up of that hardcore over time, so a yard width of hardcore for every two yards of depth. In this way, the retaining wall hardly "holds back" anything except the hardcore. But with backfill of soil, or not enuf backfil of hardcore, that freeze-thaw action will pull down a wall in the same way as it pulls down mountains.

Anyway, he needs a lot of hardcore AND it needs to be thick enbough to hold it's structure in wet or dry. It certainly shd be able to hiold a car wheel if it is anywhere where the COULD be a car wheel, which might happen once a month. So far it's happened in the first week.

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[jimi]

Re: porous hardcore

Erm .. I did notice that Al's path was down the side of his hoose, does this imply that its about to fall down? If so the umbrella might be a life saver!

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[jfm]

Re: slab and tickle

Oooer that's a top quality pressure cured slab Alistair, not cheap as slabs go. They must have been laid quite badly to break under a car wheel. TCM is right..... or he has found a good building guide on google

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[Bejasus]

Re: slab and tickle

or he has found a good building guide on google

or a good building site even. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif


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[jimi]

Re: slab and tickle

Here we see an example of Marshall's Heritage slabs being used in a new quayside development.

The strength and structure is such that the heavy docklands transport related to the movement of heavy containers is easily within the breakage tolerance of these fine slabs.
This combined with stresses exerted on the quay structure during tyhe berthage of heavy tankers required the very finest materials to be used.

Alas Allie ye've spilt it a' by building it in ra wrang way!

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[MainlySteam]

Re: slab and tickle

Nah. TCM's been getting into poetry -

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone, ... etc

Mending Wall, Robert Frost


I do have to say that I recall an excellent piece by TCM on varnishing which would have been worth a lesson to even a many an old salt, but I do not know which poem that came from. Whatever, very good stuff it was.

John


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[Alistairr]

Re: slab and tickle

I can't see a Van driving up that PATH..



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[jimi]

Re: slab and tickle

On the other hand an extremely heavy dove inhabits the little dovecote and falls off its perch everyday. The lady of the house rushed down the path in herclogs and heaves the poor litlle thing to its feet. All this frenetic activity has not damaged these slabs in any way. because the wee man who laid the flags used proper porous hardcore ... did you get a full survey done one the house when you bought it?

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