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Offline APB

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #25 on: Friday, 28 February, 2014 @ 18:45:57 »
:hmm: Could be a long wait... but then... OMG!

Oh dear.....may rethink the thong. Maybe a mankini instead.

Offline AlisonSkala

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #26 on: Saturday, 01 March, 2014 @ 11:16:08 »
 :yahoo:Was advised last night by the man in charge that rumours are false and the road will be finished in time for the season starting. Just hope I'm not being naive.

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #27 on: Saturday, 01 March, 2014 @ 15:38:34 »
It's become almost an annual ritual now.  Will the road, sewer works, tarmac be done before the season starts?

The answer is obviously yes, but only in that half arsed way that only Greek engineers can accomplish!   :hmm:

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #28 on: Friday, 07 March, 2014 @ 14:17:23 »
Does any one have a progress update for the works so far?

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #29 on: Friday, 07 March, 2014 @ 19:24:25 »
Haven't been to Skala since I posted last pic (not much reason to go there in winter), doubt there's a lot of progress to be seen. Maybe someone in that area will know different?

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #30 on: Saturday, 08 March, 2014 @ 00:28:26 »
Went today, no progress what so ever..!

Offline suej

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #31 on: Saturday, 08 March, 2014 @ 16:38:55 »
I bet end April they will suddenly decide to start work again ready for the tourists :yahoo:

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« Reply #32 on: Saturday, 08 March, 2014 @ 20:54:03 »
Too logical.......my money would be on a mid-May restart, stopping two weeks later

Offline loopylou

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #33 on: Sunday, 09 March, 2014 @ 07:52:29 »
I have been told that they are awaiting tiles from China.

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #34 on: Sunday, 09 March, 2014 @ 10:12:12 »
I have been told they will start the tiling (or it could be block paving) on 1st April, and the man who will do it can do 100 square metres per day. So if the road is about 10 metres wide and he starts outside my shop he should get my bit done on day one. If that happens I'll be a happy bunny but I'll probably be an April fool!

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #35 on: Sunday, 09 March, 2014 @ 19:10:31 »
I have been told they will start the tiling (or it could be block paving) on 1st April, and the man who will do it can do 100 square metres per day. So if the road is about 10 metres wide and he starts outside my shop he should get my bit done on day one. If that happens I'll be a happy bunny but I'll probably be an April fool!

I'm putting my money on an April Fool. Your *man* must be a superman if he can lay 100 sq metres in a day on his own. But seriously, I presume you mean men?


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Offline Maik

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #36 on: Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 @ 15:39:46 »
Couple of piccies taken earlier today:





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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #37 on: Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 @ 17:15:22 »
lovely, particularly like the potential water feature at the bottom of the second pic

Offline jed.w

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #38 on: Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 @ 17:40:22 »
100 sq mtrs a day is easy Phil, it's all down to the preparation.

Oh, hang on a mo!

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« Reply #39 on: Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 @ 18:45:34 »
lovely, particularly like the potential water feature at the bottom of the second pic

 :rofl:

By the look of it Maik has reserved it for himself!!  ;)

Tony

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« Reply #40 on: Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 @ 19:21:23 »
That's the best condition the road has been in for some time...

With 6 weeks to go till the start if the season, I still think its a big ask.

Wouldn't be surprised to see it black topped with a week to go before the visitors arrive.


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« Reply #41 on: Tuesday, 25 March, 2014 @ 19:26:31 »
Latest news is that they have realised that this project cannot be finished in time for the start of the season. Well, what a surprise! The plan now is to concrete over it again and add wider pavements. Then dig it all up again next winter.
I doubt whether the planned transformation will ever happen!       :dunno:

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #42 on: Tuesday, 25 March, 2014 @ 21:37:22 »
I cannot believe it !

 :doh: :doh: :doh: :oki:

Tony

PS Presumably all the blocks have been ordered so they will have to do it sometime.  Or just... store the blocks somewhere.   :blink:

Offline Maarm

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #43 on: Wednesday, 26 March, 2014 @ 11:16:19 »
Or just... store the blocks somewhere.

Yes, they'll be "stored"

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Offline Colleywobble

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #44 on: Wednesday, 26 March, 2014 @ 19:02:30 »
what a disgrace!!Some of the roads in Skala havn't recovered from the last major road works when they did up the sewers. It's a shame to give people coming out for the first time a terrible impression of Skala if it isn't tidied up. Us old hats have just got used to the Greeks hair brained ideas. Its the same with all their infrastructure ie the platia it looked lovely when it first had that lovely dancing fountain all lit up at night. As soon as it started to show a bit of wear and tare it was just left to rot no thoughts about repairing it. They sometimes do the same with their buildings and inside apartments and hotels. Nothing seems to get repaired and smartened up or if it does inspite of having very little to do from October to May they all seem to decide to do any jobs in the last week before opening time which more often than not is still being completed as the first tourist bus rolls up. Are they all lazy or what?God help them if they had our Health and Safety people coming round!!!!

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #45 on: Wednesday, 26 March, 2014 @ 19:14:41 »
Maybe I could store some of the blocks as my drive,  on my drive.
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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #46 on: Thursday, 27 March, 2014 @ 09:28:54 »
I shall return the leopard skin thong and mankini to the drawer.

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Offline Maarm

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #47 on: Thursday, 27 March, 2014 @ 12:23:47 »
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I shall return the leopard skin thong and mankini to the drawer

Thank you (non) workmen of Skala!

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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #48 on: Thursday, 27 March, 2014 @ 17:57:12 »
Thought you might like to see this video of how you lay 100 mtrs of block paving per hour.
 


Might have to get the Mankini out again.  :yahoo:


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Re: Skala main street
« Reply #49 on: Thursday, 27 March, 2014 @ 19:00:48 »
Clever machine but the blocks have to be cut to size before being loaded in manually.  Could be painful if wearing the mankini though!  :lol:

Tony