Sunday night I ordered more lining fabric which is scheduled to arrive Tuesday. This is a black lining that is going to go behind the nice cobbles, between them and the rubble. It'll be interesting to see how we do on the rubble front as everyone else says we haven't got enough and I've got a suspicion we just my have enough.
Friday 23rd the day the cobbles were allegedly going to arrive and nothing. No answers to emails or phone calls. A little disappointing when the order was placed almost weeks ago and they gave a date for the delivery. I thought at the time the extended delivery time was probably to give them a chance to get it right? Seemingly not.
On the Gravelmaster website there appears to be a tracking option for my delivery. It doesn't look promising. All the icons apart from 'With collection depot' at the very start of the process (Seemingly) are not coloured, so I'm assuming my rocks are still at the depot at the start of the process? At least it appears I have 2 full pallets? Worryingly though there's a date 5/5/21. Looks like that might be the delivery date? That's 2 days short of a month from the day it was ordered. I'm not holding my breath.
What I might do is start putting the rough rocks in the gabons at the back and try and tidy up the area at the bottom and get a sense of whether we've got enough hard core and rocks/stones.
Sunday 25/4/21 This afternoon Ben and I started to work on getting some of the rocks into the Gabions leaving space at the front for the nice rocks to be placed. Once we got started we realised there were a few issues...
(1). The gap down the back of the Gabions is a bit tight and in some places pretty much too tight to get anything down the back of it other than really small stones, so we may have to buy some tiny pebbles or gravel to put down the back, 'Pea shingle' would be the perfect option, so we'll have to see how that pans out and give that some thought.
(2). I realised the lining should have been attached to the inner divider before I put all the wires in to help the gabions from bulging. The lining now has had to be attached in strips between the wires which was a real pain and I've done that using small cable ties which was impossibly fiddly and only just possible as I could only just get my hands in between the grids of the cages to tie them up.
Other than that it does look like there's not enough rock/rubble and we're going to have to source some more from somewhere. These is a load in the garage and there's loads around the estate that we can clean up and use.
Anyway, here's the pictures...
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