Narrowly avoided starting a new trend in inverted patios. Me and Alison had spent ages in B+Q looking for the slabs with the nicest features and fretting over whether the different colours on some would come off etc etc... only to be told in the nicest possible way that the slabs in fact go the other way up. D'Oh!...this was after I tried cleaning them and explaining the natural beauty of the stone.
At least Chris made a minor judgement error too...putting the leftover bag of ballast I had into the mortar mix...then having to pick the stones out again!
The master at work..getting the first slabs down. Unfotunately this was the first time he laid them, not the final (so far) third time he laid them, thanks to our foolish assumption that we were working to a true right angled triangle with nice straight edges!! Should have known!
So this is my dead chuffed with myself photo of the very first slab I laid all by myself...lets ignore the fact we had to move it 5 mins later!
So...end of play Thursday... Score is currently 20 to Chris and er, 3 to me. Getting them to be flat AND not wobble sure is tricksy!
At least Chris made a minor judgement error too...putting the leftover bag of ballast I had into the mortar mix...then having to pick the stones out again!
The master at work..getting the first slabs down. Unfotunately this was the first time he laid them, not the final (so far) third time he laid them, thanks to our foolish assumption that we were working to a true right angled triangle with nice straight edges!! Should have known!
So this is my dead chuffed with myself photo of the very first slab I laid all by myself...lets ignore the fact we had to move it 5 mins later!
So...end of play Thursday... Score is currently 20 to Chris and er, 3 to me. Getting them to be flat AND not wobble sure is tricksy!
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