alex_cycles
Veteran
- Location
- Oxfordshire
This is a new toy MBP - hence the shadows and the Sauce output.
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This is a new toy MBP - hence the shadows and the Sauce output.
Legs
usually riding on Zwift...
- Location
- Staffordshire
Bloody cold! 🤧
Got the kids’ bikes on the turbo this afternoon and they had a blast on Repack Rush! Daniel (6) did 4:20, Andrew (10) did 4:33, Tim (42) did 3:14 on Andrew’s bike! Jo was busy pretending to fettle stuff this afternoon so she hasn’t had a go yet 😜
Got the kids’ bikes on the turbo this afternoon and they had a blast on Repack Rush! Daniel (6) did 4:20, Andrew (10) did 4:33, Tim (42) did 3:14 on Andrew’s bike! Jo was busy pretending to fettle stuff this afternoon so she hasn’t had a go yet 😜
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Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
- Location
- Blackpool UK
Is there a builder in the house ??
I have to add a channel drain to our patio which is finished with decorative paving slabs. My plan is to cut the slabs with a concrete blade fitted to my trusted angle grinder the width of the channel, pack the depth with sand to leave the drain 1/8" below the surface. Ideally I should concrete them in, back filling either side by 100mm, but it will spoil the look. So can I fill to the depth of the slab, then put the slab back?
I have to add a channel drain to our patio which is finished with decorative paving slabs. My plan is to cut the slabs with a concrete blade fitted to my trusted angle grinder the width of the channel, pack the depth with sand to leave the drain 1/8" below the surface. Ideally I should concrete them in, back filling either side by 100mm, but it will spoil the look. So can I fill to the depth of the slab, then put the slab back?
Ideally the paving should overlap into the channel drain, depending on which design you have bought. Then the water will enter the drain.if it's puddling near the house. Have you got a way of directing the gathered water in the drain away?
You could bed on sand if there is no foot traffic, ideally bed in with either sand/cement mix dry or make up a wet mix
Edit You dont need 100mm either side, maybe 50mm if you can get a soild neat trench cut. If there is a vehicle going over then more depth of concrete
You could bed on sand if there is no foot traffic, ideally bed in with either sand/cement mix dry or make up a wet mix
Edit You dont need 100mm either side, maybe 50mm if you can get a soild neat trench cut. If there is a vehicle going over then more depth of concrete
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I might have convinced someone to ride with us a bit. @trickyg is a colleague of mine who until recently was an avid user of WahooRGT, before it closed last month. I believe he was given a few months of free Zwift membership as compensation. He just registered on the forum, so his messages may be delayed.
Average age of the group shouldn't go down as he's 50+
all raring to go just got to get used to how this forum works 🙄
sorry for late response
I am a B . now in the splitters team
I might have convinced someone to ride with us a bit. @trickyg is a colleague of mine who until recently was an avid user of WahooRGT, before it closed last month. I believe he was given a few months of free Zwift membership as compensation. He just registered on the forum, so his messages may be delayed.
Average age of the group shouldn't go down as he's 50+
I'm a young 50 plus mind
Aleman. Here is link to lots of different channel drains
https://www.drainageshop.co.uk/drainage-channels.html
https://www.drainageshop.co.uk/drainage-channels.html
Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
- Location
- Blackpool UK
Thanks Andy, I had a load of Beilbert Low Profile drains delivered over the weekend. ... And some slot drains for the new slab that the hot tub is going on. Ideally these would have gone in when the patio was laid but there was a stupid issue with SUDS compliance ... as if the 6 foot of clay we have that pretends to be soil is actually frickin' permeable
... an argument I'm having with the planners to get a crossing installed ... yeah my concrete driveway, and ACO drains are not SUDS compliant ... Neither is the frickin soil!The patio does run towards the house but it is sloped into the existing downpipe rainwater water drains, but the water collects at the other end, and makes getting up to the raised part of the garden, unpleasant, something that will be solved with the new drains taking the water into the existing drain.
Guess I picked the wrong time of year to do groundworks!
Tell me about it. I've got to put in 4000 hedge plants, the land is waterlogged, and people have been arrange to help
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Get some local schoolkids to do it as a day out. Free labourTell me about it. I've got to put in 4000 hedge plants, the land is waterlogged, and people have been arrange to help
Aleman
Knees are FUBAR but I don't like to mention it
- Location
- Blackpool UK
Still blooming waterlogged. I am digging out for a 4" Slab, and fottings for Gazebo posts, and the soil has to go to the bottom of the garden ... which is 2" underwater ... I really should put some perforated field drain down, but as the clay bed starts after 6" the chance of draining anything is 0!Get some local schoolkids to do it as a day out. Free labour
Get some local schoolkids to do it as a day out. Free labour
School kids doing manual work . They'll class it as abuse
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
I anticipate a long, dismal and wet winter up here so I have just this minute clicked buy on a Wattbike Atom. Hope I actually use it regularly and it doesn’t end up as an expensive clothes hanger!
Peter Salt
Bittersweet
- Location
- Yorkshire, UK
Definitely try Zwift racing once you get it - that's what kept me hooked.I anticipate a long, dismal and wet winter up here so I have just this minute clicked buy on a Wattbike Atom. Hope I actually use it regularly and it doesn’t end up as an expensive clothes hanger!
