Health and Safety is at it again!

[Night Train]

The OP should count himself lucky it's not 500x500x50 council issue slabs he is having delivered or even the 750x500x50 monsters.

Ooooh me back...

I had a load of the 750x500x50 slabs to collect and return to my house. I got them on freecycle and had to lift them from a back garden, through the house and into my trailer before bringing them home. My Dad them laid them all to make a path for my drive. I quite happily lift them on my own but carefully.

Travis Perkins do most of my building deliveries that I don't collect myself. They are happy to drop as far in as they can reach over my hedge or gates but don't cross my boundary with their truck.

The only truck that did was may years ago when a grab lorry came to remove an enormous pile of dirt from digging out my basement, it was about 4 skip loads. The truck couldn't reach from the road so drove into my neighbour's drive, pulled up the hedge with the grab and then reversed onto my drive from the side. Once the dirt was loaded he drove back onto the neghbour's drive and put the hedge back with the grab! The neighbour's were none the wiser.

 

[asterix]

[True- especially when dodgy site foremen employ unregistered people who don't speak English and/or can't read.]

Mind XM, when you do get the slabs delivered, get the slab lifter so that you can set them exactly where you want on the patio- makes life a whole lot easier. If Wickes haven't got them Lord Tool Hire or a local tool-hire shop will have one.

Glad you mentioned that. I haven't laid my slabs yet and didn't know there was such a useful device!

 

[2Loose]

So not really health and safety but insurance liability for potentially damaged drive?

I really hate things like 'health and safety' and 'data protection act' being used incorrectly to hide behind because it tends to make customers nod and agree without a few extra sentences explaining things properly. Or perhaps it is the staff that don't have ti explained to them correctly in the first place.

I once had a bloke at HMRC refuse to give his name due to 'data protection act', which unfortunately I know a great deal about. It didn't help me at all. If he'd used the phrase 'company policy' (or in the OP's case, insurance) I would have been fine...