Garden path - Am i heading in the right direction ...

[Rob_in_Glasgow]

The website is a real help for us novices - thanks!

I'm planning a path to meander down our garden, across a lawn. I plan to mow over it when finished so the final level will be slightly lower than the grass.

Sub-grade here is heavy clay so I was planning to compact a 100mm type 1 sub-base, then lay 600x600x50 concrete slabs on a 50mm bed of sharp sand. Two questions for the experts out there:

(a) Is this going over the top for a domestic path?
(b) Is edging / haunching necessary for a path like this?

All advice welcome.

Thanks - Rob

[Tony McC]

a) - yes: just lay onto 50mm of grit sand and cement at 10:1 or thereabouts. As a lawnmower is the heaviest traffic to be expected, there's no real need for a sub-base.

b) -No to the edging, yes to the haunching, although it need be only a 'token' haunching, just enough to prevent lateral movement.