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Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:05 pm
by Triggaaar
lutonlagerlout wrote:looks great,you need to haunch the edges,grass wont hold anything
if you haunch to within 25 mm of the top of the brick then you can add some KDS and a stabiliser
Thanks, sounds like a plan. I know as much about turf as I do about paving and I wasn't sure if putting mortar close to the grass surface would effect the grass, but I'll try and add enough to hold the bricks. I was hoping KDS would be enough, thanks for re-assuring me.
What's a stabiliser?
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:35 pm
by lutonlagerlout
you should have really haunched it as you went so that the haunching is part of the bedding
nonetheless haunching it after is better than nowt
some people like a stabiliser to stop the kds migrating,I have never used it but some of the blokes on here swear by it
btw what bricks are those? and are they f1 or f2?
LLL
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 9:58 pm
by Dave_L
F1 or F2???
Wossatt?? I know about F1 though!
:rock:
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:03 pm
by Triggaaar
lutonlagerlout wrote:you should have really haunched it as you went so that the haunching is part of the bedding
Yes I should have - unfortunately the garden is higher in the middle than at the ends so I ended up digging pretty deep and didn't make the dig as wide as I might have (massive amounts of soil to take down a thin side path to skip).
I don't know what f1 or f2 is. They're a local stock brick. They also make a paver which is the same except 200x100x50 instead of 215ish x100x65.
Thank you for your help, I appreciate it.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:32 pm
by irishpaving
F1 and F2. Tony is asking if they are frost resistant i think... Why didn't you use a proper brick paver or are you going for costs. I do like the layout and looks good and even... WD 
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:09 pm
by Triggaaar
irishpaving wrote:Why didn't you use a proper brick paver or are you going for costs.
The problem was that the brick pavers are available in 450 packs and I needed about 1000. They are also a lot more expensive per brick, and the supplier told me they were no stronger etc, just a different size. Since I was only doing a straight bond, I thought I'd get away with the std brick.
I do like the layout and looks good and even... WD
Thank you. Not totally even, I've tried to line them up but all the bricks are slightly different sizes and not perfectly square, so it's a bit tricky. I'll post some more pics later, but I'm concentrating on the slabs now.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:47 pm
by lutonlagerlout
f1 and f2 are frost resistant bricks,anything else is no good outdoors
personally i like the look of certain housebricks in pedestrian paths better than pavers,I like to butter them and lay them as i go ,it makes an interesting feature albeit slow
LLL