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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:26 pm
by jay
hello, can anyone help with a problem i have, about 2 months back we had part of our garden block paved with the clay pavers, the problem is we kept losing the jointing sand as this area is used for the dogs so the area was being hosed down nearly every day, i was told there was something you could buy to stop the sand from moving, a friend adviced me to use a ready mix bag of sand and cement and brush that in dry, which i have done now the problem is now that in places the cement mix as not dryed it is soft, is there anything else i can try someone at work as told me to try, sika pave fix, or is there something else i can try or something i can add to firm the cement mix up, hope someone can help please as its driving me mad.
jay
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:52 pm
by Tony McC
"Advice please" - what a wonderfully descriptive subject line for this question.
So: you followed the advice of some eejit and brushed in sand and cement. Well, short of pouring epoxy resin over the surface, that's just about the worst thing you could do. Did you not think to ask the original contractor or the paver supplier for advice?
Read the main website. I'm not sure that you can salvage this paving, but there's a few tips on the website that might just point you in the right direction. Here's a hint - your paving is supposed to be "flexible".
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:31 pm
by jay
sorry but im not a builder and the person that paved our garden, was a cowboy and ripped us off, all i want to know is what i can do and no 1 told us the paving is supposed to be flexible, and it was travis perkins who suggested sand and cement
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:29 pm
by Tony McC
I'd sue Travis Bloody Perkins, then. Their advice has made the problem worse.
In all honesty, you need somone on site to take a look and then detrmine what would be the best way to proceed. You may need to invert some of the stained blocks, and then re-sand the joints and leave them for at least a month before treating them with a suitable paving sealant, perhaps summat like Covergard from Nufins.
Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:02 am
by Paverman Dan
That effin' Cowboy Travis Perkins again, he's always cutting my throat on jobs quoting $8 a square foot on me versus my nine! 
Get a pressure washer, and blow out the joints. The force of the pressure washer MAY stain your bricks (which based on what you have said here you can flip), but you'll get most of the offending material out.
Allow 24 hours dry weather, which I know in England happens once every 100 years, :p and install a paper bagged, high quality and well graded polymeric sand in the joints as per manufacturers instructions, and allow at least 24 hours of dry weather for it to cure.
GOOD LUCK!