On Dec 17, 8:56*am, Kevin Poole wrote:
The other main drawback with this is plastic gas and water mains which are
easily punctured, not to mention electricity mains.

Bearing in mind Phil's warning, how about drilling through the paviors,
walloping in metre lengths of studding (aka threaded rod, allthread),
then dropping the post's base over them and putting nuts on? *10mm or
He would also look pretty silly if the owner calls him back a few
weeks later to say the drains are now blocked and they had to dig up
the driveway to replace a section of drains..

Anyway, if you just whack lengths of studding into soil they will just
work loose and pull out..

This sounds like one of those jobs to walk away from or to spend more
time and do it properly as others have indicated.

Dave