Post #357
Well been saving hard and decided to get the drive way done to finish this off. It has been two years, doesn't time fly
Well not too much the garage but now the drive, as you can see the drive was a lot higher than needed and to remove the excess hardcore and get it to the right level I had some crazy quotes, for the time being I had the part done directly in front of the garage door so I could use it and that cost me £1000, well after some saving and the sale of my porsche I have the funds to get the drive done, this is the last piece of the puzzle, once this is done the whole house is finished, three years and a considerable amount of money later it's now a more earn bungalow.
The work commenced yesterday, how it started-
Very patchy and basically, a lot of the old drive left, the bricks and then the patchwork I had done to be able to use the garage, there was 5 tons of mud removed just from in front of the garage door so you can see what I am up against.
Another view-
In the mean time I was rushed off to collect a car for a customer that had his new car stranded in Calais, off I went to the rescue, I was quite chuffed with the car to be fair, after a 15 hour drive to get it and get it dropped off, not to mention me getting back home it was safe to say I was knackered.
Off we shot, bye bye blighty-
The beast, it drew so much attention, I even got stopped by the police so they could take photos of it-
Well back to reality and my drive way the second day looked like this, most of the bricks have now been removed and once they are out the way the hardcore can be removed to get it to a better level. This left us with this-
Well one thing I totally forgot was with the nice weather I like to use my toys, ah, yes one little issue, I can't get them out!! ********.
After the third day and this is where we are at now, around 15 tons of hard core has now been moved we are going in the righ direction of a fairly flat drive, notice how you can see the blue bricks now on the garage, also the drains had to be lowered-
Got a couple more bits for you, more has been removed and basically levelled, drainage has also been installed at the front of the house, girlfriend has also asked for a boarder so she can have some plants around the edge of the drive, ha ha, can see them getting looking after.
This was last Fridays work-
They even left us some matts to skip and hop to the front door ha ha
This is today's work, all levelled off and as the drive is quite bit it's being laid in three sections, you may be able to make this out-
Btw I don't have a light out, there are on light sensitive sensor and one obviously works better then the other.
The last one and how it stands at the minute-
Well today was the day I came back to something worthwhile to see-
View from the front door, at the minute it's not sealed hence it looks very dusty
Very happy with the style and colour I choose, this is the second driveway I have had, has a few haters but I love the stuff, maintenance free.
Carl
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buzzbrightyear
Posted 26th Feb 2013 at 20:18
