I know a couple of lads that will happily tarmac it for you, cash only, they'll also do your trees at the same time.....
The sodding sycamore trees at the back of the garden drop millions of helicopters each year and a ton of leaves that mulch up so easily - there was so much soil and sycamores growing. A concrete path would hopefully stop the sycamores.
We've had a busy month and annoying only looking at the concreting in more detail the day before. All the support rebar comes in massive pieces and wouldn't get delivered in time. Might go with sone fibre mesh and put at least one join in the path. Thanks everyone. There will be pictures.
Concrete is remarkably strong in 'compression' but weak in 'tension'. To overcome this drawback of the concrete, we need to create a composite by combining concrete with material which is strong in tension and it could be steel rod, aluminium bars ,wire mesh, glass fiber etc. And such composite of concrete with tensile material to withstand the tensile force exerted on concrete.
I agree but flags contain no such material , happy to be proved wrong but flags are generally not subject to tensile stress unlike beams etc.
I would say that a bonding agent eg Unibond will prove more worthwhile than any mesh when you will have less than one and a half inches of coverage if you have the mesh central very fiddly
If it's too late to cancel the concrete, give them the address of someone you don't like. They can pump it through their letterbox
Be smartish about whatever you decide - small load to one off customer = last on the run and that concrete could go off faster than you'd like. I had a small team of volunteers and two barrows to shift 2 1/2 tons about 60ft, level the base, tamp it down, tread the reinforcement in... hard work.
Just my pennies worth. You could bitch n chip it as the base is perfect, and it’s possibly one of the most satisfying jobs ever!
