Recent content by bob_fossil

I've been doing groundworks since the 80s with the original old Marshalls 63mm blocks and using a non-woven geotextile under everything since the late 90s buying PolyFelt in 450m rolls. It absolutely does help both preventing ingress from the sub-grade into the sub-base and at a macro level...

Yeah, there's shouldn't even be that kind of movement right when you've stitched it and the concrete is still wet. It's damaged, there's a crack lower down and just the steels are preventing it toppling. Leave it like that and over time moisture and ice with have the crack open up and the...

Thanks for the replies. I had a photo of the one end where the footing was smallest and the soil exposed beneath at its greatest (clipped from a photo I took when weighing up the little patio and figuring out how to deal with the mess the fence company left around that terrible flag-on-edge)...

My first post here and hoping I've scanned enough of the intro stuff to not make any mistakes here - if not, my apologies, I tried! So while working in a family friend's garden at their new home (a small extra patio down in a secret corner of the garden - I do groundworks and related small...