new boy needs help
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R Healey
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- Joined: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:24 pm
I have been asked by someone to lay a patio. The area is on an old area of lawn and flower bed 11 slabs by 4 (60mm by 60mm slabs ) I was planning to put down 75mm of type one sub base compacted as best as i can and laying the slabs on a 50mm of sharp sand /cement (10:1) full bed and pointing up afterwards. my question is, is this depth of sub base over the top? I dont want to have to barrow tonnes of sub soil and tonnes of sub base. Any advice would be appreciated.
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75mm is ideal. You might be interested in my answer in this thread of the Block Paving section which explains why I think 75mm is the correct depth for a lightweight sub-base.