For what seems like forever now, workmen have taken up all the paving slabs around West One and replaced them with a slightly lighter colour.

Apart from 3 loose ones which sometimes squatted your trousers with muddy water if you stood on the corner of one (this is a far worse problem on Devonshire Street), I couldn't see anything wrong with the old ones. Does anyone know why they have been replaced? I have not seen any pipes or new cabels going down.
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Originally posted by adlinds
For what seems like forever now, workmen have taken up all the paving slabs around West One and replaced them with a slightly lighter colour.

Apart from 3 loose ones which sometimes squatted your trousers with muddy water if you stood on the corner of one (this is a far worse problem on Devonshire Street), I couldn't see anything wrong with the old ones. Does anyone know why they have been replaced? I have not seen any pipes or new cabels going down.
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I think it's because the company who originally laid the first slabs did a botch job and now they're having to be replaced.

Apparently they all started sinking...

They are replacing them to repair the lighting and also I believe the original set-up didn't have adequate drainage - which is why it has taken so long for them to repair it - i.e. it's a little more than just replacing the tiles. That's what I was told anyway, I might be wrong.

Thanks everyone, :thumbsup:

This might be a load of rubbish but I heard that there was a build-up of chlorine gas underneath that pavement in West One! The white discolouration (bleaching) is certainly an indication of that sort of thing.

I think you are getting chlorine mixed up with chlorate... salt!

That's how rumours begin.

how i have loved being woken up by the sound of the angle grinder at 8.00am weekdays and 9.00am weekends :-(

how i have loved being woken up by the sound of the angle grinder at 8.00am weekdays and 9.00am weekends :-(

lol i agree, mind u i'm up at 6am to take my boyfriend to work, so i only have to endure about 20 mins of it before I'm off to school lol! If i close the windows, I can't hear it at all, and they're doing the work right on the corner of my block!

The bottle clanging at 6am is far worse. Especially bad in summer when you have the windows open.

Living in the centre of a city's noisy? Who'd have thought it....

lol hotphil - exactly!
i can't believe bars have the audactiy to throw the used bottles away, especially when people have moved in right above them!

Originally posted by bigrods
lol hotphil - exactly!
i can't believe bars have the audactiy to throw the used bottles away, especially when people have moved in right above them!

Thanks, you just won me a bet :thumbsup: