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channel12 wrote:The presumption is they don't mean earthworms but slow worms ( snake like legless lizard ) which are fairly rare these days.

Ironically I watched a slow worm in the garden this morning.

At this time of the year we sometimes find one in the road that has been squashed by a car; the road outside is tarmacked so I don't see how not tarmacking the road makes it safer for them?

Strangely Brown wrote:

channel12 wrote:The presumption is they don't mean earthworms but slow worms ( snake like legless lizard ) which are fairly rare these days.

Ironically I watched a slow worm in the garden this morning.

At this time of the year we sometimes find one in the road that has been squashed by a car; the road outside is tarmacked so I don't see how not tarmacking the road makes it safer for them?

Too smooth a surface to get a good grip on to wiggle?

I spoke to the contractor on Friday. The tarmac is finished, they just plan to finish laying the 'hardstanding' surface on the range side of the new road.

I am afraid it is a typical NRA half hearted job. The edges are already crumbling with use over the weekend and with cars driving over the edges combined with the heat of the summer, it will not last more than a season. By spending a bit more and laying edges to the tarmac it should have lasted years. Yet again they have wasted our money.

amyjane wrote:I spoke to the contractor on Friday. The tarmac is finished, they just plan to finish laying the 'hardstanding' surface on the range side of the new road.

I am afraid it is a typical NRA half hearted job. The edges are already crumbling with use over the weekend and with cars driving over the edges combined with the heat of the summer, it will not last more than a season. By spending a bit more and laying edges to the tarmac it should have lasted years. Yet again they have wasted our money.

Yep I have to agree with you.

amyjane wrote:I spoke to the contractor on Friday. The tarmac is finished, they just plan to finish laying the 'hardstanding' surface on the range side of the new road.

I am afraid it is a typical NRA half hearted job. The edges are already crumbling with use over the weekend and with cars driving over the edges combined with the heat of the summer, it will not last more than a season. By spending a bit more and laying edges to the tarmac it should have lasted years. Yet again they have wasted our money.

you would have thought they would have asked the local council why they spend all that money on kerbs! if they have just laid a layer of tarmac over the existing surface with no kerbs then you can expect to see erosion and scabs lifting in short order, who did they get to lay it? Yosser and the rest of the "boys from the blackstuff"?

Dougan wrote:
Btw: I only wear my tin hat in extreme situations...

Tin foil squirrel.jpg

...but have been considering trying it recently to see if it'll filter out some of the drivel in GOMs razz

Even your tin hat won't help you in GOM

I was there on Saturday and came to the same conclusion re edges.
The new tarmac road way looks to be substantial.
But if the hard standing is merely butted up to it, it will just crumble away.
The tarmac is quite high-about 70-80 mil.

mag41uk wrote:I was there on Saturday and came to the same conclusion re edges.
The new tarmac road way looks to be substantial.
But if the hard standing is merely butted up to it, it will just crumble away.
The tarmac is quite high-about 70-80 mil.

Unless there is several inches of very well compacted hardcore/dolomite substrate then it will last no time at all at 70-80 of blacktop even at low speeds. Especially if there are ever any heavy vehicles moving over it!

and stripey kritters diggin' under it.


Not that we would...

Without an appropriate kerbing/edge restraint system this endeavour has simply wasted more of our money. There is nothing to offer structural support to the new pavement construction.

How much longer can we tolerate the NRA's inadequacy?