What do you think to this then ?

[michaelthegardener]

I think the pictures speak for themselves

[michaelthegardener]

this is the finished edge ??? its short of where it should be because the old patio goes up hill aparently :p my customer wants me to do something with it as shes worried she might trip but im not to sure what can be done alot of them move when you walk on them

[ken]

Other than taking all the flags up and starting again, im not to sure what can be done to resolve the problem!

[seanandruby]

Don't want to say it is rough ( i seem to get told off when i make a comment like that ). Let's just say it's not up to standard. It depends how much they want to spend on it. I would rip it all up and start again.

[michaelthegardener]

i forgot to add as its not massively apparent its layed on top of the old one !

[GB_Groundworks]

ill say it, its shoddy. spot bedded using bricklaying sand. those little cuts to the edge etc

wants taking up save the slabs and clean them off if you can

then your chance to have a go with the help of the lads on here and the site you'll do a god job

i'd have laid an edge course around the top of the wall, sorts the levels out etc get rid of the old patio new subbase and you wont being going far wrong

[ken]

Hence the huge gap between the paving and the house, to ensure the damp proof course was not breached?

[local patios and driveway]

theres no doubt its a tosh, you can make good (want of a better word) as a kind of bodge to make the best of a bodge, but for me personally i wouldnt want my name associated with the job

[michaelthegardener]

Hence the huge gap between the paving and the house, to ensure the damp proof course was not breached?

no thats just the way the garden higher than the house its like that alot round here due to them being built quick after the war

i think i could take it up in a hour without any tools its that loose it was only finished last friday !

im not to sure how much she can afford to spend but ive said for now ill re lay that lose one on the edge for safetys sake
but i dont want to make the rest of it good as i dont think its possible

[ken]

If the contractor hadn’t laid over the existing paving, would it still breach the damp proof course?

[michaelthegardener]

If the contractor hadn’t laid over the existing paving, would it still breach the damp proof course?

im unsure what you mean but if the paveing was level with the drain it would mean the rest of the garden would step up if you see what i mean

[ken]

If the paving was level with the drain then it would not breach the damp course. Who ever laid that dodgy paving knew that laying over the existing paving would mean breaching the damp course , that’s why they left that huge gap, where as if they had lifted the existing paving and excavated to the right levels they would have don’t half the job right!

[michaelthegardener]

the gap has allways been there

[seanandruby]

It looks like it is already stepping up. Is the lower layer breaching the DPM? It would make sense to widen the path and place a low retainer wall. As you say: make good the trip hazards for a short term remedy.

[mickg]

seeing as the patio has only been laid a week why are you getting involved in relaying it when it was not installed correctly in the first place

has the owner of the house not voiced their concerns to who ever constructed the patio about the standard of workmanship ?