Following the episode of Stoneman, we then had to start looking around for people who can do the job of removing the concrete from the front, side and part of the back replacing it with our planned paving stones. Still waiting for Stoneman to come back to let us know whether he has enough stones for the whole project. I had contacted  a work's friend, Iliya who lives in Velence see if he may know  someone locally who can take on the whole project, that is removing the concrete, collecting, laying out the paving stones to our design and removing the rubble. Sounds simple doesn't it? He recommended a contractor who could do the whole job. We met the contractor that Monday morning, you guessed it was raining again. We explained to the contractor our plans and gave him our layout drawing. Measuring tapes, catalogues of different concrete paving were shown to us. He was reluctant to remove the existing concrete and suggesting that we should place 60mm thick paving slabs on the concrete, sounds good, except for one thing it would raise the path around the house by 100mm and that could have serious problems for the front gate, steps, etc. and still look awful. Anyway, we asked him for a quotation to our original ideas. In the meantime, we had a phone call from Iliya sugesting another contractor who could be a bit cheaper. That evening, we went back to meet the next contractor. It turned out that these were lads who did this type of work in there spare time (weekends). Next day we had prices for the work from both contractors. The first contractor was about four times more than the Weekend Boys, but it was not as simple, it would mean we would have to organise the purchase of all the material and arrange for the skip for the rubble. Doing a quick calculation on a fag packet. It seems that the overall cost would be two-thirds cheaper with a new professional management team. That's us. Still waiting for the Stoneman. It has stop raining.