[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Tonz

Thanks RoKWiz I started doing my sums and suddenly felt very light headed,
A mate is building a house with main road separating house & sea, with those gabbion cages, luckily stainless. I asked about the price, he gave wry smile, choked and changed the subject.

Yes, the reason why I mentioned it.
On the gabbions, I did a job in Newcastle along the sea front for a client years ago. Their neighbour wanted a quote for a similar (granite) stone wall where they decided paying a Stonemason was to expensive and they would use gabbions.
Two years later the cheap steel baskets are breaking open spilling the loose cheaper (sandstone) stones onto their driveway. I was told the only way they can fix it is to replace the backets with SS ones and replace the cracking sandstone with new.
So here we are, a few years on with the job needing to be done twice using inferior materials.
My client tells me theirs still looks perfect and have admirers asking about it.
Just saying. (No I'm not looking for work.)