Patio - Sloping gradients

[digerjones]

So laying Indian stone. Level at top sloping down to the gate.
How the best method. Only thing I came up with, was have a straight joint where slope begins.

[digerjones]

[Tony McC]

Yep! Project the building line through from the wall with the back door, and create a fold joint along there, with paving to the left of that line falling in one direction and the paving to the right sloping down, quite steeply I must say, to the gate.

In fact, that slope is *so* steep I'd probably opt for steps rather than a slope.

[digerjones]

Thanks tony. They want a slope to avoid steps. The jobs a right miss mosh of levels

[dig dug dan]

Seeing this poses an interesting question regarding laying paving under an exisitng gate.
if after you pave, the existing gate will not close as the slabs are too high, do we leave it and say" its the customers job to do that not ours"
I only ask as everytime I have had a new carpet laid, I am the one that has to trim the doors, the carpet fitter shrugs his shoulders and says its not his problem!
I am quite sure we in the paving industry would not get away with that

[lutonlagerlout]

as said really steps would be best ,that looks around 25deg, if you do go for a slope a hand rail might be in order
cheers LLL

[Tony McC]

Seeing this poses an interesting question regarding laying paving under an exisitng gate.
if after you pave, the existing gate will not close as the slabs are too high, do we leave it and say" its the customers job to do that not ours"
I only ask as everytime I have had a new carpet laid, I am the one that has to trim the doors, the carpet fitter shrugs his shoulders and says its not his problem!
I am quite sure we in the paving industry would not get away with that

An interesting philosophical point! We always re-hung or adjusted gates, but sometimes, that turned out to be more trouble than it was worth.

In particular, the stroppy solicitor lady with a drive opening onto a street (ooops! I mean, "an avenue") that sloped from left to right as you looked towards the house. The left hand side of the 3.6m wide threshold would be about 500-600mm higher than the right.

First of all, she insisted that the brick pillars to either side be built to "the same height", which I, and my semi-tame brickie, assumed was 1.2m above ground level. WRONG! She meant the top of the left pillar was to be the same height as the top of the right pillar. I tried and failed to indicate that this would look stupid, but she insisted. And so she got her way.

Secondly, she also wanted the gate to be level, by which she very clearly meant both the top and the bottom of the two-part gate were to be level when checked with a spirit level, and, most importantly, both the same height.

Try as I might, I could not convince her this was practically impossible to achieve without having a HUGE gap beneath the right hand side, but no! She's a solicitor, and if we don't do it, she'll sue us.

As the gate hanging was part of the written contract, but only insofar as stating "re-hang gates on completion", she got her old gates, dangling off the pintles with a gaping chasm beneath them and a suggestion that we'll see her in court....AFTER she'd settled the invoice in full.

A clever woman, probably too clever for her own good, and one definitely used to getting all her own way when it came to minions such as us. Not a scrap of commonsense, though, and even less in the way of manners and civility.

[digerjones]

I'm not the best, this is just to show the work around.
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[lutonlagerlout]

looks a good job from here mate
real life solution
LLL

[digerjones]

Cheers tone. It gives options for other people I suppose.