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Looking at other streets there are quite a few the same so it looks like an en masse job, I don't think it was Thames water as our pipes to the house were shit original ones I replaced to get better water pressure and less lead poisoning and it did nothing.
What do you think they were like originally? I can't imagine they hard a border? I know the fences were taken in the war but that should not have effected things?
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Do you have a celler? It wasn't uncommon in Victorian terraced houses to have a coal chute on the front path leading to a coal cellar.
If this is the case I'd advise not putting anything too heavy on the path, say a ton bag from a builder's merchants. The structure isn't that strong and the ton bag is likely to make its own shortcut into the cellar.
Bobbo
It's a shame they chopped them back - and halfway through the red ones too - why did people do stuff like that?
I've never cleaned outdoor tiles but Patio Magic or similar and a pressure washer?
If you don't have a pressure washer we actually have one. At least in theory: it's been on 'long term loan' to someone else on Rensburg since not long after we moved in, so hopefully it still exists/works.
I am hoping that when we lift the fugly paving slabs outside the front of ours we'll find the original tiles a layer or too down, but this is probably wishful thinking.