{"id":468,"date":"2014-06-09T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:28:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:28:23","slug":"proper-real-granite-setts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/proper-real-granite-setts\/","title":{"rendered":"Proper Real Granite Setts"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the planning conditions have been discharged so we can make a start!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First on the list is the driveway which needs an edging before the kerb can be dropped at vast expense.\u00a0 I’ve gone for granite setts.<\/p>\n

I’m new to building work, but books, the internet, and people have been very helpful. Here is my first brickwork since a day at a technical college around 25 years ago.\u00a0 Also my first concrete foundation to the foreground, needed because the ground had recently been dug up in the area.\u00a0 My first re-pointing is coming up soon on the wall in the background.<\/p>\n

\"new-brickwork\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We found the original brick setts about 6 inches below the current ground level.\u00a0 They look similar to the setts around the concrete patio to the rear of the house, but much less eroded.\u00a0 The 6 inch slope up to next door runs against the slope of the road and is a constant pain to work with.\u00a0 The drive will need a bit of trickery to make it work.<\/p>\n

\"original-setts\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the granite setts went in today in very hot sun.\u00a0\u00a0 The wiggly ones at the far end aren’t finished yet.\u00a0 The wall needs pointing and the cover for the drain at the side of the house has arrived and needs figuring out.<\/p>\n

\"setts-installed\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a lorry coming to pick up a skip in a couple of days so a mad panic to put a bit more concrete in to support the setts (as strongly recommended by both the builder next door and the one across the road).\u00a0\u00a0 If I were to have planned ahead I would have pressed a bit of gravel into the concrete.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t have the gravel yet.\u00a0 I can see that being a pain.<\/p>\n

\"concreted\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My first lime pointing went OK, though I’ll remember next time not to wet the lime so early as I’ve also lime washed the wall.\u00a0 The big hole at the bottom will be filled with cement to help direct the gutter into the drain without going via the snug.<\/p>\n

I’m getting better at building walls.\u00a0 The one at the bottom left of the photo isn’t straight but the mortar and pointing went better this time.\u00a0 I have a book on bricklaying but haven’t read it yet.\u00a0 Just need to figure out how best to fit the (almost) proper real cast iron grating.<\/p>\n

\"fibregrid\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The dropped kerb guy came to do another survey this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 The first quote was over \u00a34000 for dropping 5m of kerb, so we’re aiming for closer to 3m now and have set the level of the setts to avoid any work either side.<\/p>\n

\"driveway-marked\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s all for the next month or so.\u00a0 Busy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of the planning conditions have been discharged so we can make a start!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 First on the list is the driveway which needs an edging before the kerb can be dropped at vast expense.\u00a0 I’ve gone for granite setts. I’m new to building work, but books, the internet, and people have been very helpful. Here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}