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Failing that you could just get a recessed cover.
A mortar rake blade might do the trick with a steady hand.
what type of paving is it?
Might be easier if you have the joint of 2 or even 3 slabs in the recessed cover
you're unlikely to get the two pieces out of one slab, extremely unlikely (well neigh on impossible actually). mark your outer ring and use a 4" grinder to score the circle and go in as deep as you can. then go inside the line with a series of straight cuts, so you end up with a marked circle from the first cut, then an octagon or similar inside of that, after you've done the rest. then work out from the centre cutting out sections until you can remove them and tidy up the edge of the circle. your only going to see the top edge of the slab, so it doesn't matter what the depth of the slab looks like.
once you done that you can use the cut slab as a template to get the alignment on the pattern of the other slab and mark it roughly for the inner piece of the manhole, so it looks like its come form the same slab with pattern etc. then mark it accurately for fit on the manhole and that's an easy cut, again just score the line first and then cut.
probably sound really complicated but its quite easy. if I had 5 mins and a video camera it would be easier to show you.....but I don't and its raining and dark!
oh and its a lot easier with a decent diamond blade!
We will try and see how we get on.
Marl
Keep up the good work guys!!
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