Dear Cherie, my neighbour asked me to burn the weeds out of the gravel in her front garden. Easy job I thought, annual weeds in gravel quick burn up, no problem!
I just went forward burning everything, and then got a funny smell. I thought it may be the weeds until I looked behind me and the garden had caught on fire and the wooden fence was burning quite happily! She had the garden done by some cheap contractors who claimed they were going to put some crushed Hard Core down a thin layer of cement and then gravel, so that the water went into the drains. They didn't they had put down a cheap layer of black plastic just under the gravel which was about an inch down. So with the flame from that high pressure lance it caught on fire! Caught the fence on fire and the wood around the wheelie bins as well. Oh dear!
Luckily my hose was out in my garden, so I soon put it out with all the neighbours watching until the fire Brigade turned up as somebody had rung them, they had a good laugh and I made them all a Bacon sandwich and a cup of tea!
Luckily she was not too annoyed with me, just the contractors who had charged her a lot of money for something they had not done.
Won't do that again.
Regards & Hugs.
Neil.
