Matt Culler I think you need to look at the posts again, don't think I've said jealous too anyone, but if you're happy, then that's fine by me!

Shouldn't the surface water be made to drain towards the road and into a slotted metal covered gully and then to soak away?

Instablaster

Not if the garden falls towards the house. You just put one there @@thumperman8490

Two Fifty KZfaq got it right then lol. Thanks for the comment

What video you watching paddy ? No pros in sight m8

How much was this? - where are you located?

Exactly!

PEEK A BOO what do you mean exactly. Further down you left a comment saying don't use abbey flooring guys!

C Mac 1988 Efc q

Pasta Vender thank you

Baked Beans thanks

aja wylie thanks

+paul wilkinson your welcome

I think it’s a cowboy job

Appreciate the advice. No issues so far 👍

Just park a Range Rover on it for a week or two and see what happens, the sub-base was way too shallow....sad that people pay top dollar for a professional service and the guys doing the job / running the company have no appreciation for the engineering aspects involved. No water drainage allowed for, and the edging will more than likely fail as the edge stones are simply sitting on the sand substrate and held in place by the concrete on the edge.

@@thumperman8490 next door neighbour had there's done like 5 weeks ago and there's is already sinking lol

Not off the same company just a bunch of gypos lol

Kieron Gibson and no ground stabilising fabric Doh!

Yeah I was thinking this. It's looks nice but for a driveway it had very little sub base and didn't see any membrane go under either?

Last jobs off cuts in the drive ain’t a bad thing I’ve seen us rip up an old drive way and use the old blocks as a sub base below the actual sub base it only adds strength to your ground works when wacked properly, a standard family car drive way should have a minimum 100 mm sub base for a heavier vehicle/commercial is a minimum of 200mm

@@JamieBhoy91 over here in germany we use 15cm gravel for footpath and 25 for a private garage driveway, public stuff starts at 35cms and then open end

hard core is usually used a layer down wack it then a second layer down whacked again then sand this was cutting corners at its finest

Schlorg thank you

Thousands !

Mason Ringbinder condemned lol. You tell me why and I will contact them. So you are basically saying if I wanted to sell my property I couldn't because it's fine wrong lol

I have placed two links below which set out the minimum specification for the installation of this type of wearing surface. If you compare it to the work that was carried out you should see that it falls short of these specifications. Pay attention to the substrate depth and the total lack of concrete under the perimeter of the paving. As to selling your property, I made no mention of it. www.marshalls.co.uk/homeowners/assets/pdfs/driveway-garden-installation-instructions/standard-block-paving-installation-details.pdf www.kilsaraninternational.co.uk/uploaded/53199bbbe60f19.58440664.pdf

Mason Ringbinder all you have done is supplied me with links to other companies that do the work. Show me something that actually has some clout or am I missing something? I mention selling my house because of as you say it could be condemned, then surveyors would see that moving forward if of course you are correct.

Yes you are missing something. Lets start with "condemned"; this refers to work carried out on your drive not meeting the require minimum installation standards and not the house. The link includes a PDF from Marshalls who manufacture paving blocks, although they are not the company who manufactured the blocks your contractor used, the code of practice for preparing the substrate will be the same. Forterra who manufactured the paving blocks you have in your drive (FORMPAVE) do not have such a PDF readily available. A surveyor would be unable to assess the depth of substrate used and lack of concrete around and under the periphery, unless of course he digs a trial hole. Your video reveals all of this and in that respect, has some "clout". Send it to Forterra and ask their considered opinion, especially if Abbey Paving is a Forterra approved contractor. It would be interesting to see if their opinion agrees with mine. All the best Mason

Mason Ringbinder but I'm not worried about it though lol

CMS Mokes maybe they did that to give themselves working room? Theres no room to park a truck in the yard to offload it like we have here.

goodcat1982 it's exactly the point, whether your agree or not. The driveway is fine done the way they did it, not sure why you see it as a problem

paul wilkinson been doing this for a number of years now the driveway is fine and as for the edge it has a concrete haunch which will last a lifetime all drysanded and whacked as well nice drive bud

Yeah, not sure what all the hate is about, but hey ho, each to their own, thanks for the comment

goodcat1982 edge banding? How would you do it without haunching?

Nothing wrong with that job mate.

I’d love an up to date video!😂😂😂

Jordan Duffy I asked them to, if was full of weeds and we returfed it.

paul wilkinson oh, ok! I gotcha

It's amazing that It's about 3 years old video and he still answers in a very short time.

김진수 that’s what I was thinking

김진수 people comment, so it's rude not to I suppose 👍

Good of them to take time out from all the quoting they must be doing before their next perfect job 😂😂 It really does not bother me because they are commenting on an old video and the drive is still in very good condition other than the need for a clean. If it keeps the kids off the street, they can comment all they like 👍

Brilliant comment, lol... and if you put any of them into a garden with a shovel in hand, they'd run home lol... expert tube...

A year on and still going strong

Well that's good. Hope it lasts for you.

Should of put the edge on concrete

I had this type of driveway. It lasted 25 years before it needed to be repaired.

Yes , once all depths and the use of Type 1 MOT is used, the Compacted with whacker plate it isnt going anywhere 👍🏻

Lauden Clear its a bloody big rodent lol

Play at 0.25 speed, clearly it's a cat 😁

Can't believe they screeded all that before the mono's were even delivered those cowboys were lucky the heavens didn't open Lol would've been hilarious 🤣

And a few babes in bikinis running around....now there's a thought.

Block splitter. Seems like a lot of the pavers in that part of the world still use them

dan forbes thanks

Viktor yeah, bless them lol

Andrew Hollis damn, you beat me too it, looks like they threw a barrow full of hard core down and then covered it, what a bodge ,

@@stgray35 glad I'm not on my own. I think similar has been done on my mother's drive as it's sinking where the car wheels sit and you can pick up the edging bricks as they've got no haunches/shoulders or whatever. Stone needs wackering down first then your sand does to then screed it level for the blocks then again when blocks have been laid before brushing with sand. I can't see where it meets the house whether there's a drain channel in

Andrew Hollis I grew up around this industry, my dad had his own civil engineering firm for 45 years, and often helped him out. A friend recently had a resin drive done, and what a fuck up, their drive slopes slightly towards their house, but the idiots put the drainage halfway down the drive and nothing up by the house, and used 2” of type 1 before laying it it freezing conditions. So now when it rains heavily, their drive floods by the front door and the resin is now sinking in places , like where the cars mark, he is now taking them to court for a refund so he can get it done properly.

he went round with a saw to tidy the cuts up he done with a block cutter about the only thing he done right

josephine7782 I will enjoy my 2 or 3 years then

Yes, they should have got the levitating machine.

Richie Hanley what, the probably out of work experts 🤣🤣

werenot experts... we just know how its done right ;)

Wayne l thank you

I think you are yes lol

About £2k I think, been 4 years nearly lol

David Parker what would you do on the soldier course then?

David Parker 7:46 edging boarder

Suggest you watch it again

Apparently, membranes are not needed in the vast majority of driveways: www.pavingexpert.com/faqmembr.htm _In the vast majority of light-use constructions (patios, driveways, footpaths, etc) there is absolutely no need for a membrane to be placed between sub-base and the bedding layer: it achieves almost nothing, as a well-selected sub-base material will have what we call a 'tight' or 'close' finish, that is, there will be very few, if any, significant voids. Further: when constructing a sub-base, the good contractor will 'blind' the surface with fines or grit sand to ensure that there are no nasty voids that could gobble up the bedding material._

MichelleSmith1991 could do better would be on his school report🤣🤣

he is probably a new guy that doesnt know if he is doing it right, so he is trying small sections, while his co workers do majority, that way he watches and learns

yeah its tough when youre a new guy on the job. you want to take initiative but are afraid to do the wrong thing, so you just follow people's lead. he did stand around a lot though.

It’s called a spotter.

It’s pretty fucking normal

stephen borsbey they cemented in gray stones, is that what you mean? It can't move as far as I can see

They're using batons in the sand set to level then screeding it with a flat edge pressed against both batons to get to level👍

I ran out of memory on my camera otherwise you would have seen them ride off on their horses 🤣

Wretched Bones you enjoyed it then 👍🤣🤣

I find it amusing lol

william yang I like it when people are jealous!

Why dont people understand that if you dont like something that it doesnt mean that you are JEalous ?

ThePaint I don’t know, but you’re right. Just like they think of you like one thing it means you must not like the opposite. And that’s not true.

No people, a job done wrong is a job done wrong and that needs to be called out.

It's called Recycling

Takes all sorts lol

Chris Lennon so in other words you know fuck all about laying a driveway

PEEK A BOO why?

just read the other coments... and this comment is almost 1 year old btw

PotatoMasta Fish&Games its not good work, i bet the pavement starts sinking over the time

What the fuck do u know u prick

@@dennysmith2291 more than you obviously

Anton Kruizinga fair point

As far as I can see, no dining yet and it's been a few years now. Also, camera just ran out of juice at that time 😕

Whatever

I know, some people lol

This is a prime example of people talking shit about something they know nothing about.. internet at its finest, good one adam.

Called recycling that top idea I’d do same lol

whats wrong with putting hard core in??

Hard core is compacted to form a solid substrate. Brick rubble doesn't compact. Putting bricks is base has no consistent uniform .

Well, let's put it this way, everyone that says it's a crap job have it a year or two and yet here we are nearly 5 years later and it's fine. I cleaned it for the first time the other day, just waiting for dry days so I can resand it. Unfortunately, the "pros" on here won't believe me and I don't care to be honest. It came with a 5 year warranty anyway so I'm covered.

paul wilkinson good for you man some people like to think they are experts when they’ve probably never laid a driveway themselves

@@paulwilko10 Nothing wrong with that mate. You wanna see crap look at some of my jobs. But hey im cheap.

Annette Hurley why when it's wet?

paul wilkinson well we saw no evidence of sufficient depth of type1 subbase and never saw on your video sufficient compacting off subbase. All off which are crucial to stop ground sinking. So that is why I am asking as after a good down pour puddles will form. Don't get me wrong your drive looks ok. but the way it has been constructed defy all known tex books. And I assume your parking a car on driveway not a Sinclair C5.

Annette Hurley the only puddles that appear are by the door step, but only small and that is normally when the drain is full of leaves.

Jordan Cleinman I turfed the area, all planned 👍

paul wilkinson Legit! Driveway looks really nice btw

Darac Darac a couple of days

Thank you

Jaime Giral thx

Gary Douglass when you say soon, it's been 3 years 😉