Hi,
I have my plumber coming in next week to finish off some work. Part of what we wanted to do was run a new pipe in from the stop cock at the front of our drive via a new route under the front bay.
Since his back isn't up to it I agreed to dig the trench since I need to get a mini digger in for another job anyway.
My question is how to remove and reinstate the tarmac part of the trench. If you look at the house from the street on the left is a tarmac drive about 6 or 7 feet wide running back along the side return with the rest of the width of the frontage as garden.
I will be taking a diagonal from the stopcock in the centre-front of the drive. It's about a 20ft or so trench in total but the first few feet will be driveway. I was thinking of angle grinding out neat sections of tarmac so I can effectivly put them back like lego and then sticking them back in (no more nails? ). Is that stupid and unrealistic? Will I have to just get that bit of the driveway re-tarmaced when we're done?
Thanks,
Steve
I have my plumber coming in next week to finish off some work. Part of what we wanted to do was run a new pipe in from the stop cock at the front of our drive via a new route under the front bay.
Since his back isn't up to it I agreed to dig the trench since I need to get a mini digger in for another job anyway.
My question is how to remove and reinstate the tarmac part of the trench. If you look at the house from the street on the left is a tarmac drive about 6 or 7 feet wide running back along the side return with the rest of the width of the frontage as garden.
I will be taking a diagonal from the stopcock in the centre-front of the drive. It's about a 20ft or so trench in total but the first few feet will be driveway. I was thinking of angle grinding out neat sections of tarmac so I can effectivly put them back like lego and then sticking them back in (no more nails? ). Is that stupid and unrealistic? Will I have to just get that bit of the driveway re-tarmaced when we're done?
Thanks,
Steve