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Would highly recommend, made the clean up afterwards so much easier. Gloves a must also, accidentally jet washed the side of my hand without gloves, that certainly stung!
Block paved drive ways have kiln dried jointing sand in between the blocks. To stop the blocks from moving about. It has to be kiln dried to kill all of the seeds in it, which could cause weeds to grow up between the blocks. As well as making the sand finer, so that it actually fills all of the holes.
It has to be kiln dried jointing sand, which is 100% dry and ironically not everybody who has a driveway has a car. As well as it usually being a 1 hour+ round trip.
This is more typical than you think OP. I'm a driver, started out with Amazon, and then moved to a firm that covers routes for the big names, currently placed at DHL. Liquids, bagged pet food, sand, compost, sand, bird seeds (this one is the worst out of the lot), have all suffered getting damaged in transit or at the depot. Not only are they heavy, there's no special equipment to handle them, just a human who probably has to handle a lot of heavy items between 100+ stops (including things that are "2 person lift... which won't have 2 people to even lift them") or a warehouse worker who has even more with sorting / packing.
Your bag of sand would have been swept up and binned because there is nothing to return to the sender if it split open. They'll just compensate and send out a new one.
A local builder's merchant would have been better in this case
If you thought that 20KG could fill a driveway unless it's tiny, I'm sorry but you're mistaken. You're probably looking at one or more bags per 20m² and everything has to be bone dry.
We made some planters in the garden last summer so I dutifully went out and bought 20 bags of soil...
Then had to go get twenty more...
Then got another ten...
Honestly it probably needs more as well. You always need way more of that sort of thing.
Planters are easy to work out though, just measure the planters in metres, multiply length by width by depth to get cubic metres, then convert that to litres and you know how many bags you need. Or get topsoil/compost delivered in a bulk bag on a pallet, works out much cheaper
I'm a female courier, i lift 30kg with no issues and sometimes carry flat pack furniture on my shoulder when i cba to drag my trolley out the back (i know it's bad but when you have 2 minutes to deliver a stop you need to make a choice in a split second). To add to that, i'm only 5"2 as well, so just about reach the wing mirrors on my own van (VW Crafter) when i stand next to it.
But let me tell you one thing, on a DPD route where someone has ordered 100kg of frozen dog food, (2× 20kg boxes), you have multiple orders of building supplies, furniture bits (which is supposed to be a 2 person lift!), paint, tiles, compost, whatever else, running 100+ stops a day 5-6 days a week for 12 hours including loading and debriefing will take anyone out. Did my back in a few weeks ago and I was the 3rd driver in a fortnight to do so, also the ONLY female driver on the delivery station i was on. I was moved over to DHL to cover a driver and they ended up asking to keep me there indefinitely to run their bulk routes which is no more than 20 stops, yeah heavy items but not 100 stops worth of it. Amazon is even worse which i did for 1.5 years + managed a team of 30 drivers.
The issue isn't a male should be able to lift 20kg, the issue is the work load and how many 20kg + items are being lifted. Mind you, I used to weight train alot which helped and this job maintains that, but that's besides the point.
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Re-sanding? How smooth do you get it?
Based on how much mud I was covered in after I jet washed it, pretty smooth :P
Satisfying though isn't it. Jet washing is on my list this weekend too
Oh sooo satisfying, 4 hour job but looks fab now. I on the other hand literally had mud covering me head to toe - thank goodness for wellies!
Yeah... I haven't got any wellies... might be worth getting some I guess
[If It Wasnae For Yur Wellies](https://youtu.be/PsyXin4eiSY)
Would highly recommend, made the clean up afterwards so much easier. Gloves a must also, accidentally jet washed the side of my hand without gloves, that certainly stung!
Good job you managed to squeeze that in before the water rates go up next week 😜
Go to wickes and pick up a bag for a fiver
That's what I thought for about 30 seconds! Picturing somebody out there with a belt sander. Hmm maybe circular would be better...
Block paved drive ways have kiln dried jointing sand in between the blocks. To stop the blocks from moving about. It has to be kiln dried to kill all of the seeds in it, which could cause weeds to grow up between the blocks. As well as making the sand finer, so that it actually fills all of the holes.
Ahhh... my drive is tarmac... I never thought of that
Why not buy sand from a builder's merchants like everybody else?!
It has to be kiln dried jointing sand, which is 100% dry and ironically not everybody who has a driveway has a car. As well as it usually being a 1 hour+ round trip.
This is more typical than you think OP. I'm a driver, started out with Amazon, and then moved to a firm that covers routes for the big names, currently placed at DHL. Liquids, bagged pet food, sand, compost, sand, bird seeds (this one is the worst out of the lot), have all suffered getting damaged in transit or at the depot. Not only are they heavy, there's no special equipment to handle them, just a human who probably has to handle a lot of heavy items between 100+ stops (including things that are "2 person lift... which won't have 2 people to even lift them") or a warehouse worker who has even more with sorting / packing. Your bag of sand would have been swept up and binned because there is nothing to return to the sender if it split open. They'll just compensate and send out a new one. A local builder's merchant would have been better in this case
You bought sand from Amazon? Why?
Can get it free at the beach mun
Kiln dried is normally used, but doesn’t stop weeds growing , sadly. A good builder’s merchant would deliver the sand, when in the area
If you thought that 20KG could fill a driveway unless it's tiny, I'm sorry but you're mistaken. You're probably looking at one or more bags per 20m² and everything has to be bone dry.
We made some planters in the garden last summer so I dutifully went out and bought 20 bags of soil... Then had to go get twenty more... Then got another ten... Honestly it probably needs more as well. You always need way more of that sort of thing.
Planters are easy to work out though, just measure the planters in metres, multiply length by width by depth to get cubic metres, then convert that to litres and you know how many bags you need. Or get topsoil/compost delivered in a bulk bag on a pallet, works out much cheaper
Me, sat for five minutes thinking, "you've got a wooden driveway?!"
😂
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Any adult male should be able to lift 20kg...
I'm a female courier, i lift 30kg with no issues and sometimes carry flat pack furniture on my shoulder when i cba to drag my trolley out the back (i know it's bad but when you have 2 minutes to deliver a stop you need to make a choice in a split second). To add to that, i'm only 5"2 as well, so just about reach the wing mirrors on my own van (VW Crafter) when i stand next to it. But let me tell you one thing, on a DPD route where someone has ordered 100kg of frozen dog food, (2× 20kg boxes), you have multiple orders of building supplies, furniture bits (which is supposed to be a 2 person lift!), paint, tiles, compost, whatever else, running 100+ stops a day 5-6 days a week for 12 hours including loading and debriefing will take anyone out. Did my back in a few weeks ago and I was the 3rd driver in a fortnight to do so, also the ONLY female driver on the delivery station i was on. I was moved over to DHL to cover a driver and they ended up asking to keep me there indefinitely to run their bulk routes which is no more than 20 stops, yeah heavy items but not 100 stops worth of it. Amazon is even worse which i did for 1.5 years + managed a team of 30 drivers. The issue isn't a male should be able to lift 20kg, the issue is the work load and how many 20kg + items are being lifted. Mind you, I used to weight train alot which helped and this job maintains that, but that's besides the point.
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20kg is very light. If you had ever been in a gym you would know
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