nashmach
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Agreed, Teagasc man must have shares in CRH.
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Agreed, Teagasc man must have shares in CRH.
Ozzy Scott
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We had a business teacher in school always on about CRH shares, if he followed his own talk, he is a multi millionaire now
That's good to know, expensive gravel isn't an option as ends up in the drain , currently have cheap ordinary gravel and unplugging gully's is a frequent event, previous owners made a mess of site preparation despite being on flat land , have a soak pit under lawn but struck rock four feet down so it fills up fairly quickly
Tarmacadam is just so ugly in my opinion
This is what I used and it works . I should have gotten better gravel with less fines but the finance department had a spending cap at the time .
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massey 6480
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Brother has printed concrete on the driveway and around the house . It looks well . 2 vehicles driving on it every day 1 of which is a farm jeep so not a clean vehicle my any means. Its staying very clean has never been washed and in 3 yrs . Go look at a few places that have been done before knocking it . But it is expensive as there’s a lot of labour involved in doing it correctly.
drew
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Surely its environmental factors around the house are biggest consideration to concrete? Big ever green trees all around the house here if you had printed concrete it would be horrible in no length, there’s concrete foot paths with just a brush finish here, granted they are down 40 years but they are off colour and if not trafficked atleast a bit or swept off they tend to get a bit slimy and slippery, if it was imprinted concrete every line in it would be growing moss or algee of some sort.
If you don’t like tarmac what about the resin job? Probably more expensive but atleast a brighter finish?
If you don’t like tarmac what about the resin job? Probably more expensive but atleast a brighter finish?
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We put concrete with a brush finish in an area at the back of the house . It looks very well , BUT , in damp weather it goes green . We have lots of trees , and plenty of ivy , which doesent help with that .
In dry weather , youd have to sweep it fairly often . Dirty wheels , mucky wellys , leaves , even straw blowing .
I would imagine concrete with patterns in it would be a nightmare to keep clean . If you have trees , i wouldnt be goimg there .
I like the look of tarmac myself .
On the soakpit @lanky_lad , forget about a round hole with a lorry load of stone tipped into it .
A trench 3 or 4 ft wide with 2 foot of stone as far as you can go , will get rid of water far better.
Soak pit done prior to an expensive lawn being laid so can't change that now 😣, I went with the digger mans idea which is three gullies feeding four inch wavin for about a hundred feet and then the soak pit in the middle of the lawn
We have pools of water to contend with at times so can't have gravel being displaced, tarmacadam certainly the most practical fit for us
callwaster
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Could you mole plough in some drainage pipe
Disturbing the lawn is a non starter , very expensive to put back and put right,do tarmacadam before that
lostpassword
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My neighbour has security gravel down and it looks excellent after 7 years. Although maybe his wife doesnt pretend she is in a group B rally driving around the house as mine does
I like gravel but it ends up in the gulley with heavy rain
Security gravel ? As in using the stabilisation grid ?
massey 6480
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No matter if you went with tarmac or concrete you’ll still need additional drainage to deal with the water run off from them . There’s nothing stopping you putting in an additional soak way in under your yard no need to touch your finished lawn .
It's complicated,a public road goes right past our house,we live in a cul de sac but there was a house further down a century ago and the council are in charge past the house up to the hay shed ( only we use the road in practice for the final 700 metres)
Can't dig a trench across this " road" for drainage as there is also ESB cable running the length of much of it past our entrance, that's why we drained into lawn, I've spread cheapish ordinary gravel effectively on this public road but digging through it is a different story
callwaster
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Era get someone tasty with a digger and you'll dig around the cable easy enough.
Or suck it up and redo the lawn.
Or suck it up and redo the lawn.
drew
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I think your missing masseys point, you have an area you want concrete, dig out a block of that area and put in material for a soak pit, then concrete over the top and forget about it.
If it was me and I was that bothered I’d get a turf cutter for a day, peel a small strip of sod, then in with a 1.5 digger and a few sheets of ply, trench in a pipe to the nearest gripe wherever Is the handiest or least obvious spot in the lawn and throw the sod back on it, give it some tlc and you won’t see it in 2 months. Mind you I’d just plough on and trench straight through the lawn no matter what, it’s not the k club here 😂😂
Got the feed barrier up around the new tank (about time), and too wet to out winter anything, so I used no ring feeders at all this winter 😁. Maybe this farm is slowly been gentrified finally? 😅
CavanJacks
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Monaghan based ready mix supplier, who would traditionally be a touch dearer than others locally is €178 inc vat a metre from 1st April.
Ozzy Scott
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Talking to a builder earlier who is paying €160 m for 20n footpath concrete, he has been told if there is no change in energy price over the next 3 months, it will be €200 then