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Hugo Habicht

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How is it going to work on the bend? Are you cutting blocks to keep the spacing?
To finally answer your question (driveway finished now).

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I paved from the gate and from the house and the rows should meet in the middle of the bend. From there is a zig-zag line going to the opposite kerb stone. Despite measuring I got it slightly wrong and I had to take up a few rows again.

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On the kerb side every block has to be cut individually, even on the straight parts since the kerbing edge is not vertial. A lot of work, but I wanted it this way with nice round edges everywhere and on the garden foot paths too. I think there are no right angles in nature and it looks better this way.

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Since the angle of the driveway is not 90 degrees I had to cut the end of each zig-zag block. Also they had to be moved sideways every row, so I had to cut off the spaces noses on one side. I got away with doing that every third row only with leaving a slightly bigger gap at the first few blocks of the other rows.

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Russell King

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That looks fantastic! And like a lot of work! I bet you have a lot of gloves that need a mate without the fingers worn out OR some serious calluses!

Oh and your German is showing (made me laugh,) = “On the kerb side…
 

Hugo Habicht

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Oh and your German is showing (made me laugh,) = “On the kerb side…
This is actually something that confused me where I thought it should be "curb".

It seems "curb" and "kerb" are both possible. In Ireland they use "kerb". See for example https://www.roadstone.ie/product/kerb-block

Is one British and the other one American Englisch? I am not sure myself now which word to use when and where :giggle:

p.s.: wrt to the gloves I am not sure. I worked until midnight to finish everything and compact it with the whacker plate so that my wife can drive over it and left at 04:15 the next morning for a longer trip. Had no time to take stock of left/right gloves but will do that when I am back and report here 🤣

p.p.s: you definitely need gloves with those blocks, they have very sharp edges on the top.
 
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Russell King

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Well dang you are right Kerb in British English and Curb in American English (so a regional thing). I have never seen it with the K so thought that came from the German influence!

So I looked up the translation into German and see that would be “curb” = “bordsteinkante” and “kerb“=“bordstein” in both US and UK English

But now this has become tedious, so I will stop!