Basic as basic gets - Laying patio for first time - affordable

[London Stone Paving]

Pretty straight forward from here on in, you have done the bulk of the work now. To cut the pieces just mark up with a tape measure and a pencil. Make sure that cut through the top surface of the paving and not the bottom. Sounds obvious but its always worth mentioning.

With the edges, they will need to be set in carefully as they will be most at risk from coming loose. The edges will then need to be haunched in

[dig dug dan]

you want to hook up with crusher dan, get the stuff crushed up and supply to your local customers who collect from you or you deliver to using a crane off delivery. for this business idea I will only charge 10% of the profits made.

When i wnet into steves place the other day to collect some easipoint, i noticed the skip load of broken stone and off cuts, and thought the same thing!

[London Stone Paving]

When i wnet into steves place the other day to collect some easipoint, i noticed the skip load of broken stone and off cuts, and thought the same thing!

How does sandstone crush Dan? Once crushed could it be used for anything?

[lutonlagerlout]

type 1 steve
i.e. crusher run for a patio base
they might get the hump if you had it running all day mind
LLL

[Carberry]

Wouldn't most sandstone be too soft for type 1?

[dig dug dan]

crikey, think how hard indian stone is compared to most slabs.
Its ideal material, and more importantly, its clean material.

I know steve has someone in his area with a crusher, but what he's paying for a skip, is what a crusher costs, and at the end there is a saleable product![quote]



Edited By dig dug dan on 1314640978

[Carberry]

crikey, think how hard indian stone is compared to most slabs.
Its ideal material, and more importantly, its clean material.

I know steve has someone in his area with a crusher, but what he's paying for a skip, is what a crusher costs, and at the end there is a saleable product!

The expensive stuff is solid but the cheaper stuff, in my experience, has always been very soft.

It is definitely worth looking in to if he can cut costs / make money though.

[pippasmum]

actually cutting went quite well, now I have aa few rocking slabs which is driving me in sane, can I get a hand tamper to help, its not huge movement but enough for me to notice when I walk over the area

[London Stone Paving]

I take it the slabs are laid on a screed of sand?

[pippasmum]

yes,

[London Stone Paving]

I'm no expert on the screed method pipsmum, but you could try and get a mallet and give them a bit of a tonk down but you may need to lift the offending slabs and then relay the screed underneath.

I'm sure someone on the site with a bit more experience in the said method will give you the right advice before long

[lutonlagerlout]

screed method is fine if the subbase is very even and when you do tap the slabs you tap them in the right places
I.E. very close to the centre,maybe 50 mm in any direction to get that bit to go down
if you tap the corners you have had it
is there any cement in the screed pippas mum?
LLL














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[pippasmum]

hey guys, thanks so much for your answers and help, its a screed mix of cement and sand 10:1, I laid the sub-base and whacked it down so it as even
need to post some pics but a bit embarrassed lol, another question when making a mortar mix class 2 as described in the main pages, roughly how much water is needed there must a be a percentage, making one step that leads from house to patio, as well as edging along the finished patio

[seanandruby]

it depends on how much your mixing. Are you mixing by hand, or in a mixer? You don't want it like soup, or, like a dumpling, it needs to be like mashed spuds, workable with a trowel. Sorry for the analogy.

[pippasmum]

mixing by hand, what i have done looks right but i don't have any plastiwotsits so wondering if this is making a big difference :0