Marcus GTE

Update. Booking this tomorrow, any more let me know 1. Marcus GTE 2. Supraman 3. Ross C 4. SPG 5. Heidthebaw 6. Ross Mcgregor

My thinking too There will still be a chance to get my hands dirty as I'll be laying the turf. I started off thinking I'd be happy with the garden in your first pic, but fair play, that last one looks amazing. We'll done

I was looking forward to having a shot, but for £25 extra someone would do it for me? Come on

Started back filling the wall today after breaking up the old one. Slow progress this week but I'm looking into hiring a mini digger in the next week hopefully and get it levelled and some drainage built in. £150 for a micro digger and operator sounds like the way to go I think.

I called up today to ask about avalability, they would need us to book by this Friday if we want the 10th of June. They require £56 deposit at that time and it's £28 per head for 3 sessions (like we did the last time) Or if we get 8+ they can do a Grand Prix for us that would be just our group on the track for £30 per head. It's on till 8:30 so what if we say 7:30pm, how does that suit people?

Any more? I'll be looking into them having availability soon

Payment received Graham, cheers Who's next?

Will do Graham, cheers. I think a passenger fare is also just under a fiver, hence the +1 fee too. ***Post 1 updated with attendee list

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That's £400 well spent, it looks great, and will last ages. I'm seriously thinking about hiring an excavator. I'm just worried it might crack the slabs on the side access path to the house. Anyone got an idea if it would? I took out the old wall today and I'll need to finish breaking up and removing the old foundation for it. I'm currently thinking of how to backfill the new retaining wall. I have lots of rubble about that I could use that might help with drainage as I'm aware ideally it should be back filled with type 1 stones. Foundation coming up too so it's not too close to the new surface

Wasn't it!? Lol

Guys, some of you might have seen the viral movie trailer and music video (with the Hoff) for the film Kung Fury; the crowd source funded film about a Kung fu renagade cop. Well it was just launched for free on YouTube tonight. Hope you enjoy it It's 30 min long btw.

Ps, I love the casual 295 supra tyre swing lol

Your work is pretty inspirational mate. What a difference! You must be delighted with it now The climbing frame is ace, the wife and I were just talking about the price of ones not even the same size as yours, over £1,000 easy! I'm not looking forward to levelling it either, I would say one corner is about a foot and a half higher than the lowest point so I'm estimating shifting 20 tons by hand! I'll see how I get on. I might enlist a hand if it gets obvious I'm in trouble but hopefully it should be ok. I think trying to dig down evenly will be tricky but I'm going to hire a rotaviator to prepare the top soil once I'm near level so that should make raking it about a bit more manageable. I've had the suggestion before about the decking on the dead space, which did have woodchip everywhere before the work started and it looked a mess (hated it before anyway, god knows why it was there. I think the house builders put a rubble drain under it). The thing is I've already got a large decking area out the back of the kitchen and running the width of the house, so another big deck I think might be overkill. I like the look and feel of a nice fresh cut lawn in the summer and I think extending it will make the garden feel bigger. I'm also wanting it level for the future shoul we want to put in a swing etc.

Cool Liam, it would be good to have you along The tent we have use of is technically an 8 man tent, so there should be room in it- however if people want to bring a tent for more privacy or whatever reason then obviously that's cool.

Looks great- lots of work. You've some amount of land. A deck would look cool there

Cheers Hope it doesn't take me a year! Got any pics of yours, Before/ after? I'm planning on banking the ground from the high levels of the grass at the fencing down to the new level so I don't need any more walls.

I've been wanting to do something about my back garden for a while and have finally got around to making a start on it. It's on a slight slope so there is a run in the level of the lawn and also a small retaining wall in the middle of the garden that is an eyesore and a trip hazard for the future when my daughter starts walking. I'm proposing to build small retaining wall at the fence, knock out the existing eyesore wall, dig up the lawn, level the ground by digging down in the high area and filling in the low area upto the top of the new wall, build in drainage in the form of a few soak aways (never done it) and finally prepare the ground and turf for what I hope will be a nice quality flat lawn. So far I've dug out the foundation and poured and levelled the concrete. Last night a builder friend of mine built me this wall. Just started raining as we laid the last block, so got away with it after the forecast was for heavy rain. I was originally thinking about putting slabs down to have a BBQ area in the corner next to the house but I'm thinking of just keeping it simple and turfing the lot. Has anyone done this before that has tips on building in drainage? I was thinking of 2 or 3 holes staggered about with some type 1 stones and wood chip in it to act as soak aways. I've got about a month to have everything completed and hopefully that will include letting the new lawn bed in for a few weeks before it's used.

You enjoyed that birds eye view of the struggle last year didn't you For me, it adds to the fun and doesn't hurt that it costs a fraction of the price. That's what's good about this trip, it's got accessibility for different preferences

That sucks, hope it gets sorted this week. single builds eh!

Cool, it's not that bad. More people to pitch the tent in the inevitable storm that will hit when we go to set it up

Well last year sunny had the creepy serial killer boot contents like Tonytt usually says he carries so perhaps he can stand in for him lol "Camping and hostel." - thought you were thinking about a b&b? You saying you're up for it? (Hope so) 1. SPG (camping & hostel) 2. Marcus GTE +1 (campineg & hostel) 3. Supraman (camping & hostel) 4. Jn.shaw (camping & hostel) 5. Heedthebaw (camping & hostel) 6. Westcoaster +1 (b&b both nights) 7. Gordy.r +1 maybe (tbc) 8. Ross C (camping & hostel)

Lol. Cool, hope all is well. Ps you will never sleep again eh

Great. Ball is now rolling. 1. Marcus GTE 2. Supraman 3. Ross C 4. SPG Any more interested? Ill invite Liam on facebook incase he missed this, as he enjoyed it last time I think. Ross is your mate that played footie tonight into it?

Kinda glad I won't be sharing a tent with you now after that lol Yeah it's getting there now, numbers are looking healthy