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Luckyinlife

Hey guys
Instead of the whole garage idea iv decided to

Put 600x600 concrete slabs on the front for a 20sq meter area price is £280 for the slabs bought few other bits like membrain stop weeds sand blocks cement ect for back as well total came to around £440
Had a 3 quotes for this and people seem to be charging silly money this time of year for work 1 was £800 other 900 and 1 at 750
either way its less than half to do it myself

So little side project for me when its dry

Luckyinlife

quick update
Got my slabs/blocks sand ect

Managed to lay 20 slabs out of 56 i got yesterday but its forecast rain now for the next 3 days so will be back at it Monday
Massively hard work on my own when the slabs are so thick for the eight of the car lol but feels so good at the end of the day

bought a angle grinder today to cut the slabs proper for up aginest wall so

worked out i need 80sq meters out my back for 2 big sections i want to do which is about 1k in slabs 4 different size ones to make a pretty pattern

I guess it would make sense for me to buy a mixer now as i cant be mixing by hand out the back haha

Firegirl

How's it going Lucky? Nice to see your mortgage coming down!

Luckyinlife

Hey fire thanks
Things are good not much happening on the mortgage front for now

Managed to finish the front yesterday it looks really good as well spend a total of around 15 Hours on it so not long at all really

bought myself a cement mixer £100

Also had a few quotes to do the back garden in total there is about 70 square meters i need to sort out prices are verying from 1.5k to 2.5k had 4 people round :mad::eek::eek::eek::eek:

now i know this is the time of year for this kind of work but dam the materials i need for the job everything i had a price of £650
im basically just conreating the back with a 2 small walls and some slabs on the walk way sort of thing

it blows my mind some of the prices people charge considering iv already done the ground work lol

looks like another job for luckyinlife to get stuck into im just trying to get the back tiddy/low maintenance and usable

Hope all you guys are good

A_Frayed_Knot

Hi Lil, have you managed to reach under the £62's yet? If not you must be fairly close

It's that update time again. Hope you managed your slabs, etc while the good weather is out.

Luckyinlife

Hey AFK
Balance is now at £62074 :] I will fire a bullet at it next week to get it under the 62k mark :]

Finished the slabs out front Need to get a day or 2 free now to start the back :]

A_Frayed_Knot

Hi LilGreat to hear things are ticking along, £75 (or in other words - a nice bottle of perfume) will get you under your £62,000 :j
Must have saved yourself £££'s doing the garden job yourself :T so, get o/paying , your garden must be coming on a treat.
How's work - hope its picked up and getting busier.

Firegirl

You're creeping close to the 60k mark!!!!

SuperSecretSquirrel

We've not heard from you in a few weeks LIL... How's it going?

A_Frayed_Knot

He'll be lazing about his newly laid slabbed back garden in his lounger .........

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