Recent content by 1jim

thanks, will phone up and get a price tomorrow for 16 x 25kg bags....what would you say from a builders merchant £5ish a bag inc vat?? did get a quote from them for a bulkbag when we were looking at this to start with and they quoted £115...wonder if its worth getting the extra just in case

thanks thermo, you have been a great help, can I be a really big pain and just ask how many bags I would need if the depth stayed at 10cm thanks

thanks thermo, any idea how to work out how much slate I need to get?

was going to put a membane between the slate and gravel, I assumed this would stop this happening...any thoughts?

too late!!!! just put down a bulk bag of 10mm pea gravel(around 20cm deep) and the wife had choice of topping up with more gravel or slate chppings (the path was for drainage mainly)

Hi I have laid most of my gravel path now but the wife now wants to top dress it with slate chippings but I am having difficulty working out how much slate to order, I want the 40mm stuff, dimensions are 10 linear meters 50 cm width 10cm deep can anyone help with working out how much I...

thanks for all your help and sorry for all the really stupid questions Will probably go for the pea gravel all the way down---the wife keeps going on about being able to walk on it and thinks we should put roadstone down and compact it first and then topdress with gravel but I suspect that this...

thanks, will probably put down a membrane first then, do you think I should have pea gravel as the base and then a larger stone (eg slate) as a top dressing? would this be easier to walk on?

thanks, do you think that if I dont put a membrane down when the gravel gets worked into the clay...will it improve drainage further?

Hi We have had some drainage problems in the garden, my solution to this has been to dig a great big trench around the edge of the grass to a depth of around 25cm. One edge of the trench is raised sleeper beds, the other side will be a mowing strip made from paved drive blocks. My initial...

:D wow, that was quick, thanks, will need to more carefull in future :oops:

ooppss, sorry wrong forum, please move if you need to, :oops:

Hi, getting out kitchen redone (new doors and worktops), will need to take off the tiles from the walls as a couple have become loose/cracked over the yrs, we have looked at getting splashback and upstands made to order as the splashback seems to be a non-standard size, we have come across one...

Hi Andrew The garage is attached to the house at the side, set back a little fron the front of the house if you see what I mean. I am guessing that the garage is approx 2-2.5m height but thats a guess to be honest From the front boundary the garage would be approx 3 small-medium car lengths...

Hi, 1st post (so be gentle with me :wink: ) although have been lurking for a while. We have had a problem with our garage roof with the felt coming off, it seems that we have a couple of options, the roof is flat (slight incline) with felt covering, the felt looks like it was a real bodge...