We are currently re-doing and extending our patio. We had some sub-base delivered, I wheel-barrowed 1 tonne from front driveway into garden yesterday and we are having problems levelling it, using a rake just moves all the big bits leaving the fines in another place. Is it just a case of perserverance and moving the stuff around, we hired a wacker plate and have used that on it , so long as it is compacted enough does it matter if one part is all stone and another all little stones with fines... Am I making sense?
So time consuming aswell ...
Any help will be appreciated, even a hint if we are doing it right
is it MOT type 1 you have had deliverd? i dont seem to have this problem, maybe try using a shovel?
you will struggle to compact the parts of the subbase with no fines, its should all be mixed together for optimum compaction.
My pet hate is getting MOT deliverd from a builders merchant and they scoop the stuff up from the bottom of the pile, and you end up with a bucket of the biggest stones in the stuff as they all roll down from the top!
Thanks for that. Yes as you say we had sub-base (I did ask for Type 1) from a builders/aggregate company and had huge lumps of aggregate, had to sift through 4 tonnes to find the good stuff, in the end had 1 tonne left of the large stuff which they are coming to collect next week. We managed to compact it eventually although did put the project back somewhat.
