Slabs Calder Brown - Finished

[Mark H]

Just finished laying Marshalls Calder Brown Flags out the back path.

Laid on the old concrete path via 5 spots (sorry Tony!) followed by wet grout.

Levels were difficult as multi sloped.

Mark





(Edited by Mark H at 11:03 am on Sep. 27, 2003)


(Edited by Mark H at 11:03 am on Sep. 27, 2003)

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Looks neat and tidy, Mark - well done! I'll say nowt about the spot bedding and the "4-corners meeting" at this stage! ;)

How did the wet grout work for you? Didn't you find vast quantities of it disappearing beneath the flags because of the spot-bedding?

[Mark H]

Dead on Tony.

I had to "butter" each edge with loads of mortar..... and still I had to ram loads of mortar into the gaps with the mortar tool when pointing... it seemed to eat up all my precious and backbreaking mortar mix. ;)

All in all the spot technique was a bit of a pain as some of the spots were about 9" tall (before being compressed by the slab) when I tried to even out the levels a bit... and then kept lifting/re-lifting the slabs to re-spot correctly for levels.

The wet grouting left quite a bit of staining as I let it get on the slabs at first (my fault being a complete newbie).

The only way to get rid of the staining was to manual wire brush (I got through 4 wire brushes) and then wised up and used a moderate power tool with rotary wire brush attachment.

Trouble was, it started out as "I'll just lay 6 slabs" from back door to the shed" over the existing gravel on concrete path.... and ended up laying 107 slabs and doing the whole small yard/path :)

A little way through I noticed the mortar staining and an internet search pointed me in here to see how to get rid of the staining......./ only then I saw the advice I really needed before I started. :)

Rgds

Mark

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Better late than never....almost! :)