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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:19 pm
by digerjones
hi all,
could any body tell me how steep a slope you can go with eaton 60mm brindle concrete block pavers please.
cheers dylan
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:01 pm
by msh paving
as steep as you feel happy with, there is no limit MSH 
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:42 pm
by Tony McC
We have paved revetments up to 60°. You'd never get a car up there (it was bloody hard work getting blocks up there!) but it can be done!
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:15 pm
by lutonlagerlout
surely at that pitch it becomes a retaining wall gaffer?
i mean how can you screed sand at 60 degrees?
LLL ???
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:40 pm
by Tony McC
Screeding was done a bit at a time using moist sand (12% I seem to recall being the spec). As these were simply revetments, the normal micrometre accuracy for which we block-layers are renowned could be overlooked, so as long as there was *some* sand beneath the pavers, and they were reasonably level, that was deemed acceptable.
Swinging the plate from a rope while two of us held on for dear life at the top of the bank was more of a challenge! :p
We did a couple of motorway bridge undercrofts too, but I think they were a measly 45° or summat like that.
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:35 pm
by Paul No2
Dear Sir, I want to use paviours on a 1:6 slope. Would you use a normal granular sub-base, a normal granular sub-base with anchor blocks every 6m or so (is an anchor block just a trench of concrete) or would you use a concrete slab with thickened toe. ???