MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
We will be in touch
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That lawn is so bad that I can't even see the bike in the photo! 😡
Lawn?
Got to figure out where I'm going to plant one or two of these bastards first...
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Over-boxed much?
Two fat green snowmen in big planters??? 😮
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Meh; y u no Flemish bond in a matching brick?
How did the rest of the house survive the nuclear blast?
Have faith drlex, have faith 🙂
*craps pants at the thought it might not all work *
Brick colour
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Drive colour
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..and that's as much as I have to go on. So it;s anyone's guess as to whether it'll work. So far the engineering bricks blend into the edgings nicely, the rest I won't know until it's all too late.
I'm not trying to match the dark and mildly depressing house bricks - why on earth would I want to do that? I'm trying to brighten the place! 🙂
I like a well trimmed box.
With acknowledgement to Finbar Saunders
That house isn't half as pink as the one near me, although they do seem to have started painting it as they now think that may be why they've had no offers after 4 years on the market.
[url= https://www.instantstreetview.com/ @51.941159,-3.344655,247.5h,-14.94p,1.48z]bit pink[/url]
Could be because the locals approach the junction opposite at 70mph.
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Suitably impressed with your manskills.
Have you just produced the worlds first driveway only suitable for mobility scooters? What were you thinking man - off road parking opportunity missed and replaced with area for growing green stuff you'll never look at but be required to tend to instead of having a life.
I do however covet your brick laying skills.
Hell no, this isn't my work! Decided to get professionals in. This is just an house-renovation-update type thing, for those that remember.
And it's perspective Convert, the area to the right is 4.85 deep.
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Plus, birds and wildlife stuff can't get worms out of tarmac. And I like a bit of foliage.
Plus, birds and wildlife stuff can't get worms out of tarmac. And I like a bit of foliage.
Quite right too...an ornamental tree might look nice. Maybe a Himalayan Birch ?
Reported to mods - this is really a rate my brickie thread.
No lawn ffs.
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That house isn't half as pink as the one near me
"skelped baboon's arse" on the dulux chart that one 😯
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Lol! nice bush
Oh. Chuffin' hilarious.
Bastards. 🙂
Your windows are giving me OCD. Well, the one on the top right is, anyway. Any chance you could sort that out?
Please paint your wall orange, it will clash nicely with the pink.
And then you won't need to listen to people commenting on the pink house 🙂
Might critique the work as I ride past tomorrow 😉
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Any chance you could sort that out?
I could prescribe you some Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.
Genuinely have tears if laughter here. Thank you kayak23
Next stop, cleaning up and.....lawn.
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Are you stuck the wrong side of the red and white tape for the night?
Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?
Does Elton still live up the road?
-10 points , not one mug of tea in any of the photos .
Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!
Well spotted enfht . Are the pillars even level!?
The large dollop of mortar under the right hand slab is ruining it all for me.
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Enfht and senior j - that pillar was there before bear started. It might belong to house in the right
this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??
Does it work, is it any good, or is it bollocks?
Looks good that.
Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!
Looks like a resin bonded finish. Pricey!
this might be a slight hijack but i was reading that you can get shade tolerant turf, ie a lawn in a north facing garden that doesnt instantly become a gloopy boggy mossy mess??
Yes you can get shade tolerant grass, but it sounds like you need to sort drain as well. The grass itself is fine, just not as fine as the village bowling green. We are trying to leave ours longer this year to see if it covers better.
Needs a porch
Is that as yellow as my phone screen makes it?
No. It's autumn red 🙂 .
Will you be painting the top pillar slab so it matches everything else?!
I [i]may[/i] have messed up with the pier cap. I kinda like it at the same time though. I'll see.
Are the pillars even level!?
Matches the windows.
Interested to know what the driveway stuff is and how it was laid!
Porous resin bound. MOT Type 3, Open texture asphalt, tree jizz & gravel.
Pricey!
Well it wasn't cheap, but not outrageous. If anyone is in W.Yorks and interested, drop me a PM. I've dealt with a [b]lot[/b] of tradesmen over the last 3 years of this place, and this was the most honest and diligent bunch I've met - from start to finish.
Cost me a fortune at the butty & chippy shop, mind you.
Just for my own back-patting ('cos you kind of need to look back when going through this, as many of you will know), and those that remember the original thread, this is the before and after over the last 3 years, nearly to the day.
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At last, I won't be ashamed to walk out of the front door. (Seriously, I was!)
That looks really good to be honest.
I think it needs a water feature.
Renton is right btw.
Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?
Have you just produced the worlds first driveway only suitable for mobility scooters?
See? Nothing to worry about. *mops brow*
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Why does the brickwork of your house now seem to have a different texture to the "before" images?
It's been lightly cleaned and repointed all round. However I'd like to think that the crippling amount of money spend on everything else helps lift the brickwork!
The brickle down theory?
Where is your red and white drive gate gone?
At least the car matches the windows.
WHERE'S THE LAWN??!!!
IT'S DONE!
To summarise, because Photobucket bastards.
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Woke up this morning with an air of random determination to sort the lawn out. This is after 2 passes of the rotavator in late summer, but weeds had predictably made an appearance.
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Picked out the weeds and started to level it all. Unbelievably this took 4 hours (something something follow camber/claggy soil etc).
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Then with a final, neurotic pass of the rake, started to lay each piece of turf.
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When it was all laid, I then levelled out all the 'aireated' soil (read: not-properly-compacted-because-I'd-rotavated-it-too-much)..
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.and a lawn, at last!!
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Nice lawn. Shame about the gravel 😉
House just needs a lick of yellow paint now
You laid a lawn in January?
I await 'what replacement turf' thread...
And kayak23's post still makes me giggle.
You laid a lawn in January?
Why not ?
I have done it before without issues.
House just needs a lick of yellow paint now
Nah. Brown.
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No reason not to lay turf in January but I wouldn’t have been rollering it straight away personally.
I'm further North, I'm not sure I would lay in January, but that's a reflection of climate more than anything...
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I ache for the days I can fire up the mower and
mow until my heart's content.
It's a long winter.
House just needs a lick of yellow paint now
Nope, it matches the colour of the path perfectly.
I ache for the days I can fire up the mower and
mow until my heart's content.
I am like that until sometime in around August by which time I am getting bored of it and can't wait for autumn and the damn stuff to stop growing.
Can't see the point of having a lawn right next to a major highway
a) Can't gaze at it, without seeing HGV's zoom past every minute
b) Can't sit on it, too noisy
c) Kids / Pets can't play on it, too dangerous.
0/10 for site location planning.
Oh, and er 😉
Can't see the point of having a lawn right next to a major highway
Bearing in mind there isn't a single car passing in any of the pics I wouldn't say it was a 'major highway'.
Having a nice front garden enhances the look of the house anyway, it's not just about use.
Good work OP
Looks like a nice job. So how do you clean the lovely resin bonded gravel path?
You can lay turf any time as long as you can physically unroll the turf without it being frozen.
Not keen on using a roller to gently compact the soil though. You may find small hollows forming as it gets foot traffic in the spring. Easy enough to fill them with soil though
Thanks SB. When it was laid I was scared to jetwash it, but it's proved to be resilient to a full-whack assault from the Nilfisk to remove tyre marks, so when it stops raining I'll clean using that. 🙂
GD. I wasn't keen on rollering TBH as it's not really a good idea generally, as you know, but I couldn't do the compacting before laying due to how wet and fluffy the soil was, so had to do after laying the turf.