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What's the going rate per metre for laying slabs?

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Boggert:
HOW MUCH?? I would do it my self!

Edge:

--- Quote from: Wireless on March 01, 2008, 22:52:54 ---Ok, I realise there is more work than putting slabs down on sand, I don't dispute that, but I still think £5360 is too much for laying just 65m2 of slabs.


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Do you have a photo of the ground/area to be slabbed?
Pics of man holes & ground height in relation to damp course?
pics of access would be handy too?
Is it only slabs? (no edgings).
I'll ask the bro-inlaw to take a look.

paul_humphreys:
PM me you name and phone number and I will pass it on to the lads at work,they do a good job. ;) They are all from Shrewsbury.

Paul

Wireless:
Thanks to Edge & Paul for the offers, I'll get back to you in a few days, I have two more tradesmen coming to give quotes in that time, I'm hoping they are not like the shifty prat who turned Saturday afternoon, I don't care what he quotes he looked too much like a pikey, and was obviously lying through his teeth.

Range Rover Blues:
How big is 65m2 then, can't imagine that.  A block poaved driveway for a typical house might cost up to £3k locally, (I thought about having it done) and that's an area big enough to abandon 2 Discos onto.

My drive is gravelled apart from the tarmc that was already there.  The materials cost me less than £100 IIRC, with about 7 trips to the builder's yard with the Sankey.

I was lucky though, my front garden was lawned in good soil so I was able to tip it onto a garden where someone wanted topsoil.

If you see a skip in the road that's being filled with bricks, scrounge some for hardcore then they're free.

I used a permeable membrane (the most expensive bit) then a couple of tonnes of crusher run per car space and at least 1 1/2 tonnes of graded "peak stone" granite on top.  If you use limestone it will crumble into a dust, the CC use granite chippings on their hard standings, it's very tidy.

I whackered the first section I did, the rest of it I Range-Rovered flat :lol:

Up side, no-one can walk on it without my hearing it, you can't jack my car up and nick the wheels

down side, I can't jack my car up on it and it sticks to the tyres sometimes, so you leave a trail on the drive.

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