The Brew Cabin

Who says paving and DIY are only for men! We are planning to undertake our first paving project and want to install a small patio type area in our garden in Japan.
We have after much language problems got our hands on three bags of dry mortar and 28 12 inch square tiles - they are little pieces of slab held together by a plastic webbing. However we have little idea of how to go about laying them - the japanese guy at the building supply centre tried to tell us but we couldnt understand him!
Therefore i am desperate for someone to give me a fool proof guide as to what to do and how to lay them - we have some idea but not much! The one hitch is that it needs to be semi permanent - so that it is sturdy enough to use but can be removed if the next occupant want to get rid of it!
Please help us or i fear that we will be left with a disgusting concretey mess!
Thanks :o)

PS: i would read the guides but i really need a non-jargony fool proof guide for someone who has NO IDEA about this kind of thing

(Edited by hellyboo at 11:25 am on Mar. 21, 2004)

Have you read the guides?
Did you find them full of jargon?
Which particular "bits of jargon" did you have trouble with?

The mesh-backed patio tiles are laid in just the same way as any other patio flag or slab.

Read "the guides" - if you can't be bothered reading "the guides", then I can't be bothered writing it all out again for your benefit. Most folk find my writing to be self-explanatory and jargon-free - try it.

thanks - that was all i needed to know - no offence re jargon , am just crap at following instructions- i just didnt know what type of tile i had and whether laying them was same as I dont know what they are called.
Patio now complete
hellyboo