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I prefer pavers (tegula deco, brett regatta, granite setts - 50mm or cubes etc.) laid onto haunched concrete to flexible edging as it gives a nice edge to run your mower wheel over. It's an easy installation too.
I'd charge iro £990.00 for this for rotorvator, supplied and laid turf and 2 days labour.
I wear Dewalt boots too and agree they are comfortable and pretty hard wearing for the amount of punishment they receive.
We lay onto a 100mm minimum compacted MOT sub-base and a 50mm concrete bedding layer. I've always used 8 sharp - 4 building sand - 1/2 bag OPC as our bedding mix layed semi-wet as it taps down really well. All jointing is done wet and struck with ...
I use Sketchup to plan the garden and check dimensions, areas for quantities etc. It's a great and intuitive drawing tool and best of all it's free! I tend to do plan views by hand still though - but usually after I've done all my working out with...
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- At 7:56pm on July 12, 2008,
Cat Fereday said… - Hi Bird - the before and after project pictures on your website are great to look at!
- At 8:57pm on July 12, 2008,
Philip Voice said… - Hi Andrew and welcome to the Landscape Juice Network.
I hope that you find the site of use and please do not hesitate to contact me if I can help in any way.
Kind regards
Phil Voice
- At 10:20pm on July 20, 2008,
Cat Fereday said…
- Bird,
Thanks for the friend link-up. Will be checking back for more before and after pics - they're great!
- At 9:04pm on July 22, 2008,
Cat Fereday said…
- Fingers crossed for you on the sunshine - hope you come home with a tan rather than trenchfoot - but you never can tell with an English summer!!
- At 9:35pm on August 21, 2008,
Rhianne Griffiths said… - Hi there, No she's a Yorkie - 12 weeks in that shot, now 21 weeks old. The digging is something that they outgrow so I'm told. I won't hold my breath.
Dogs are a delight though, I'm sure you'll agree. I now have three in my pack: a ten year old Yorkie girl called Pepsi and two recent additions Caro and Rhia 21 weeks old Yorkie girls.
Did your dog dig holes in your garden? If so how did it stop?
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