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Posted by Aardvark on May 15, 2007, 7:33 pm
On Sun, 13 May 2007 09:33:22 -0700, peternoon wrote:
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>> On Sun, 13 May 2007 03:43:08 -0700, peternoon wrote:
>> > To clarify things, I am posting this diagram of my construction,
>> > thanks
>> >http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7358/neighbourstrenchpipevu4.jpg
>> Yup! That's what I wanted to know. As I previously stated, if the
>> trench was up to 300mm wide you could probably get away with finishing
>> the job off.
>> As the trench is 500-550mm then I would advise you get some more
>> advice. Maybe someone in this or another NG with engineering
>> qualifications would be better suited to helping you.
>> You could finish the job off and it might be ok so long as the biggest
>> car that'll ever drive over it is a Nissan Micra. I'd worry if you had
>> an XJ6 or even worse a Rolls-Royce.
>> I hope you see my point. Replacing the top layers now might work, but
>> then again it might not.
> Thanks for the reply, but what do you think might happen, that the
> concrete slabs could sink or something like this?
>
Well if the trench is too wide and a large weight were to sit on the
crazy paving over the line of flags there is the possibility that one or
more of the flags could snap, and everything would collapse into the
trench. Unless the flags are reinforced, which is doubtful.
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> > To clarify things, I am posting this diagram of my construction, thanks
> >http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7358/neighbourstrenchpipevu4.jpg
> Yup! That's what I wanted to know. As I previously stated, if the trench
> was up to 300mm wide you could probably get away with finishing the job
> off.
> As the trench is 500-550mm then I would advise you get some more advice.
> Maybe someone in this or another NG with engineering qualifications would
> be better suited to helping you.
> You could finish the job off and it might be ok so long as the biggest
> car that'll ever drive over it is a Nissan Micra. I'd worry if you had an
> XJ6 or even worse a Rolls-Royce.
> I hope you see my point. Replacing the top layers now might work, but
> then again it might not.
> --
> Registered Linux User 413057.
> Both Mandriva 2007 and Ubuntu 6.06
> You can have it all. My empire of hurt.