Or you are just willing to accept lower standards? Ripping up paving bricks or whatever and slapping down some concrete is a bodge.
Thames Water - dug up beautiful bricks....replaced with cement.
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Or you are just willing to accept lower standards? Ripping up paving bricks or whatever and slapping down some concrete is a bodge.
No other company seems to have an issue with leaving pavement in an absolute shambles with zero regard of who comes later. The cement is a short cut.
but it's not a 'complete' bodge. they could have made a much bigger mess of that. they didn't just slap down some cement. they've actually done a very neat job with it. they may not have replaced the bricks but it is far from a complete bodge job.
Did you read that in braille off the trodden in dog ****?
Something that will wash away in a day vs an eyesore forever. Not really comparable.
an eyesore? while i understand your viewpoint, it's hardly an eyesore.
The pictures don't do it the justice of having a mis-matched patch of concrete in the middle of light coloured brick work. You can see it from about 50m away.
Perfectly fits my description of an eyesore.
see for me personally the entire path is an eyesore. grey brick road and light coloured path just don't mix for me, the contrast isn't there. also there are far to many different sized cuts in the bricks on the path for my liking but each to their own. you spoken to any of the neighbours about this?
Yes, we are going to pooling together to bribe the royal regiment of artillery to call in a strike so they are forced to replace it all.
that's possibly going a little over the top, no?
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Won't the concrete dry light coloured? Would be interesting to see pics of it later on.
Gosh. I mean they've done a really neat job. Can't say I'd care about that at all. Its not nice paving anyway, and it's not on your property. There's a dog turd in that pic, so give it a few months and your neighbours will drag the prices down anyway.
If that truly is an eyesore, you need to stop looking down.
If that truly is an eyesore, you need to stop looking down.
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All of those (weak) points have already been addressed.
1. Just because it's not on your property it doesn't mean you shouldn't care. If I graffitid a willy on the pavement outside your mum's house, you'd care. I'll let you think of more of your own examples.
2. The dog poo is transient and he's probably not amused with that either.
3. It's the very definition of an eyesore.
4. Not liking the style of the paving is completely irrelevant.
Fancy someone taking pride in the appearance of their area... WHEN IT'S NOT EVEN ON THEIR PROPERTAH! An Englishman's home is his castle, but outside of that, who gives a dog crap right?
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The dog quite clearly has already given a crap
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The style of the paving is meant to be quite safe for pedestrians as naturally cars slow down as it's requires concentration to figure out what's going on.
The style started on a Prince Charles west country residential estate quite a few years ago. It's quite an expensive solution compared to traditional tarmac and kerbs.
The style started on a Prince Charles west country residential estate quite a few years ago. It's quite an expensive solution compared to traditional tarmac and kerbs.
1. A very neat bit of concrete and a graffiti Johnson are not the same thing now are they. I will think of my own examples, at your prompt. A) Three trees in a row, but one is *slightly* smaller. B) all the streetlights in my road are orange, except one that was replaced with a white cover. And C) All my neighbours have black doors. Except Steve. Steve's door is Anthracite Grey. God damnit Steve.
2. I understand the lifespan of dog poo, the example was (I thought quite clearly) to imply that the neighbours don't seem to have as much of a sense of community pride as OP. I had meant for you to infer that from the "your neighbours will drag the prices down" sentence. That in turn would suggest that I doubt this bit of concrete will be the last nightmare to occur here.
3. According to Cambridge the definition is an ugly or unpleasant sight. These two things are subjective but EVEN IF we disagree on what is ugly and what isn't, it was again indicated that I found the concrete's surroundings to be equally ugly, and so it doesn't particularly stand out for its ugliness.
4. See 3.
Also I feel like I should clarify; I'm the first person to have a moan when the bins on my fancy estate are still out after 3 days. Or when people park on the corners. Or in fact people parking on the street at all when there's two 60 car electric gated car parks right in the middle as well as driveways on every property.
I think it's all down to perspective isn't it. I guess some people just have an insanely low threshold for things that are important in life.
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It's fox poo and it's already gone. Remember the service charge I pay, they come round daily to clean. Mainly because they are trying to sell more on this plot.
The housing developer is already kicking up a fuss and I didn't even have to prod. I highlighted it, they looked at it while I was at work and found it as appealing as I did. To quote him 'all he had to do was dig around the vertical pipe, remove it, make his changes and put it back. It's not as if he had to recreate the Sistine Chapel'
They are taking it up with Thames Water.
I don't know about you but I think that most people will rank being happy at home and with the family to be pretty high on the list. Buying a new build in London and having thames water dig and cement right outside your front door months after laying the pipework isn't acceptable.
This is probably where i'll spend the rest of my life, why should I settle for it
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