Slight technical hitch :(

[davem2005]

Woke up tuesday and decided to block pave the drive...something I have been meaning to do for about 5 years. So tuesday weds we widened it to allow two cars side by side at the front...thursday I started on the main drive.

I have always had a small slope which is hard to push the boat up so I decided to raise the drive to make it flat...So in went the edge kerbs yesterday and today to raise the drive by 75mm...not a lot but it will make a big difference. The final blocks will go in tomorrow and it should look good.

Heres where the problems start...we have an overhanging porch on the driveway. Many years ago i raised it to allow the caravan to be pushed to the back...but a quick trial with a tape measure tells me I can no longer get the boat out!

Bang goes any plans for fishing on sunday!

Anyone got a spare place for sunday oh and half a dozen acro props to raise the porch next week

Cheers
Dave

[5150]

Might be a daft question, but I take it you got planning permission to lay the new dropped kerbs? We ended up having to pay Blyth Valley Streetcare (last word is a laugh in itself since they don't give a **** about our area until you do something that breaks their rules) nearly £700 to get them to do the work of laying 3 drops and even then they made a right hash of it 4 times!!! There's mad legal rules over changing an access to a property and if you ignore them then, like a friend of mine who bought a house without checking hers were legit, you could come home to find that they've all been lifted and replaced with normal kerbs...

The legalities around changing a "Vehicular Crossing of a footpath" are insane, I did check the other options and it's mad, loads of red tape and legal crap, liability insurances, certified builders etc... BUT if, like me, you opt for the "cheaper and direct option" of having "Streetcare" do it... then you can come home one day to find that the turned up out of the blue, ripped up all the kerbs and footpath, rested 3'x2' fkn concrete flags against the back of your 29yr old classic sports car (I mean, who the f/k???!!!), left both driveways already there stuffed because of they ripped everything out (and you're on a bus route!)... then messed it up so badly that half the flags are still rocking after 3 attempts by them to re-lay them...

Madness.. I do love Blyth Valley at times. Still, they weren't slow in asking for payment.

[Oblickta]

he he.
I 've seen daves drive and it's not the council end he's on about lol

Dave check ya pm's

[gazzawill]

ahhhhh the good old council training programe
forget everything we just taught you
just gan have a go at it lol
if you fook up so be it lmao

[davem2005]

As graham said ...its my side that is the problem.

Yep you do need to have a special certificate to drop kerbs,,,the course cost nearly a grand a person. Thats why you get charged 700 quid for a access over a footpath.

My "little" job is taking a bit longer than planned and hopefully I will get away with jigsawing an inch or two off the windscreen of the boat as its far easier than raising a fully tiledporch and re attaching it.

Guess this weekends a right off as far as fishing goes...maybe a midweek day instead when all is finished.

Cheers
Dave

[mark]

As graham said ...its my side that is the problem.

Yep you do need to have a special certificate to drop kerbs,,,the course cost nearly a grand a person. Thats why you get charged 700 quid for a access over a footpath.

My "little" job is taking a bit longer than planned and hopefully I will get away with jigsawing an inch or two off the windscreen of the boat as its far easier than raising a fully tiledporch and re attaching it.

Guess this weekends a right off as far as fishing goes...maybe a midweek day instead when all is finished.

Cheers
Dave

this might sound like a really daft suggestion, but I went down a similar route years ago - changed wooden folding doors to an up an over door on the garage - result couldn't get boat out of garage!

if its only a couple of inches... let the tyres down on the trailer maybe??

drag it clear then re-inflate??

worked for me

of if you trailer is standard 4" pcd buy a couple of cheapy 8" trailer wheels, swap em over then swap em back, bit of a faff but might be better than getting serious with the power tools

if its only 1 side you need the clearance on, you might only need to lower 1 side of the trailer

[davem2005]

Yep its just one side.

I aint scared of power tools...but its easier to drop the windscreen by an inch or two than fork around blowing up wheels.

As for balancing a 1 ton porch on acro's that would be the last resort but would allow me to reverse the boat all the way down the drive. ( the van is also too high for the porch)

You got a pm.

Cheers
Dave