Marooned in Maywick Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 just as it was getting entertaining £1million a mile motorway vs brigstenns Try £30 million a mile...in 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/dec/13/guardiansocietysupplement3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdub Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Would there be any S.I.C grants available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Recommendations were asked for, so I gave my recommendation. But if you look at the thread it is about quality of preparation... Hmmm, there is no private driveways over Staney Hill, that was already established in another thread. thank for all the feedback much appreciated D Did you not see that. My recommendations were honest without any malice or the want to cause upset, typically, there is always someone fighting a corner in a circle. Which really does not tally with the original inquiry. Why are you trying to make me out to be something else? It all depends on cost and time. Folk would do most of the prep themselves, many a time a family have teamed up to help lay a concrete drive, build garages and so on, so the cost would be the stone, tarmac and labour in laying the tarmac.It is a skilled and expensive job, to have it fail because of a lack of understanding would be a shame, just helpin folk come to a decision. Hope no one else uses the drive for 20 years without being stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 just as it was getting entertaining £1million a mile motorway vs brigstenns Try £30 million a mile...in 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2006/dec/13/guardiansocietysupplement3 better still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdub Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 looking to get the driveway tarred but who to get to do it? any reccomendations? (***Mod Edit - Moved to Consumer Advice & Resources***) As you can see the original question was for reccomendations of someone to tar a drive not construct a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 ^^ It is worth bearing in mind that whichever company comes to take a look and provide a quote, may well quote for extra preperation depending on the standard of the existing drive. I think shetlandpeat just got a bit carried away on that aspect At the end of the day, everything comes down to individual circumstances, location, and use (will it just be driven straight over into a garage, be parked upon, or do vehicles have to turn on it, do you plan to use it for barbeques etc). Any experinced contractor will be able to give a range of options and quotes reflecting those kind of situations. I would echo whats been said above though, don't write off the council as an option. Do remember to ask for a guarantee period. Any reluctance to provide at least 2 years should be met with caution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdub Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Well said spinner72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 looking to get the driveway tarred but who to get to do it? any reccomendations? (***Mod Edit - Moved to Consumer Advice & Resources***) As you can see the original question was for reccomendations of someone to tar a drive not construct a new one. nearly took my fingers off, hey, all info is helpfull in the right circumstances, but not all judges are right.... good luck with your drive banzai... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 ... you seem to have no Conscience...Well said. It is a matter of responsibility and taking a serious question seriously. Recommendations were asked for, so I gave my recommendation.When people ask for advice they are usually hoping to learn something useful from people with skill and experience. Good advice may come from experts in the field, who may or may not be be professionally qualified but are certainly experienced. It may also come from people with interesting experiences of being a client etc. The kind of advice which plagues internet forums is that provided by people posing as knowedgeable experts, but who are patently not so. Such advice is spam and needs to be flagged as such. Your advice was stated in a manner which suggested it should be treated with respect, at least that you have designed some surfacings or roads. It was, however, wrong to a level which is staggering. When the real experts highlighted how amazingly incorrect your recommendations were, you couldn't take it on the nose, but rather you persist in trying to provide lame justifications, such as it being down to being born before 1971 (which I might add had nothing to do with metrication, 1971 was currency decimalisation). Can't you see that such behaviour is likely to rile people? ... just helpin folk come to a decision.Help is not always helpful. ... to have it fail because of a lack of understanding would be a shame,...Exactly! That includes your lack of understanding. Hmmm, there is no private driveways over Staney Hill, that was already established in another thread.Really? What is the name of the hill Baila, Sandy Loch Drive etc. are built on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vdub Posted September 5, 2010 Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 looking to get the driveway tarred but who to get to do it? any reccomendations? (***Mod Edit - Moved to Consumer Advice & Resources***) As you can see the original question was for reccomendations of someone to tar a drive not construct a new one. nearly took my fingers off, hey, all info is helpfull in the right circumstances, but not all judges are right.... good luck with your drive banzai... Whos Judging not me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shetlandpeat Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 EM, I dont know why you have taken up this worthless cause, except on your own back.I have already explained.Oh, if the tracks on Staney Hill ARE private, there are alot of folk using them without permission.You may also have noticed I did not really answer the question but expressed my experience.Oh, 1971 was when the metric system was introduced. But you used a lighthearted pun as a feather hammer to try to hit me back with it.No doubt you will respond to this in the same manner, when really the matter was closed a while ago.From my experience, You ALWAYS have to be right.... So, to save any embarrassment I will capitulate just for you and let you have your bone. You so obviously need it... And now we are way off topic and have started a personal thing... -------------------------------FIN------------------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spinner72 Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Isn't it funny how its the most innocent of subjects that spiral out of control like this. I believe Godwins Law may not be far off being proven here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Not too clever posting link Is there not a T & C about posting links to offending sites? your rather qick to try and put others down SP so don't be surprised when it happens to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EM Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 EM, I dont know why you have taken up this worthless cause, except on your own back.First of all, I know that there are more backs raised than just my own. As for the cause being worthless? Well, we clearly differ on this, but I do believe that the pursuit of truth and "not doing things badly" are amongst the most laudable of causes. Oh, if the tracks on Staney Hill ARE private,Who said tracks? You said "driveways," I said "driveways." You may also have noticed I did not really answer the question but expressed my experience.I did indeed note that rather than answer directly, you chose to vaguely mention that you "dabble in reinstating road trenches and pavements." I took that as a "no." Frankly I don't think that sounds like you are sufficiently experienced and skilled in pavement design to have couched your recommendations in such an authoritative and numerically absolute manner. I certainly would not (and did not) consider providing such apparently expert advice. That is because I do not consider myself an expert in the field, even though, unlike you it would appear, I am qualified in designing roads, and have designed a handful (the bit sweeping around the head of Urafirth being the best one I think). Oh, 1971 was when the metric system was introduced.I don't think so. Perhaps you will share the information which leads you to this statement. My understanding is different. If I am wrong I would, as always, welcome correction. From my experience, You ALWAYS have to be right....I am quite sure many others share your view there. I would like to think that my expressed opinions are well researched and justifiable. I take no pleasure in "being right," but I am allergic to statements which are demonstrably wrong, especially those made by myself. All I can suggest is that people flag the statements I make which are wrong. ... hey, all info is helpfull in the right circumstances, but not all judges are right....Those statements sum up perfectly what I find damaging and dangerous in the type of postings I consider a plague. It is relativistic, post-modern sharn. There's loads of info which is unhelpful in every conceivable circumstance. Everybody could be right, everybody could be wrong, of course. That is why we have developed critical thinking and rationality, so we can identify the opinions which are helpful, as well as those which are plain wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 ....and relax. Please. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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