Hi!
I am very much impressed with your website and amazed with the hard work you have put into it.
I want to have the patio done in riven slabs. The contractor wants to bed the flagstones directly onto a ballast, and wants to go for dry sand pointing.
Please advice me.
Thanks a lot
Flags & Slabs
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I would not bed directly onto ballast, but some contractors do like that method. For riven patio flags, I'd be happier if a spadeful of cement was added to each barrowful of ballast, to help stiffen it up and prevent it running out when wet.As for dry sand joints with riven flags - that's something I would never do, the joints are too wide, too uneven and the sand will have disappeared within a month. If a joint stabilising compound was to be used in conjunstion with the jointing sand, then it would be more accepatable, but, with the cost of these JSCs, you can have the flags mortar pointed for less!
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Ajay
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With Lonstone Make riven slabs which are medium quality, would dry grouting be any good.
Also I was looking at your website for designs and one of the designs which appealed to me was using a combination of 600*600 Polished Precast Concrete Flags mixed with Blocks. So what type of bedding and jointing would go with it. Also please is there ar website where I can look for more designs
Many Thanks
Ajay
Also I was looking at your website for designs and one of the designs which appealed to me was using a combination of 600*600 Polished Precast Concrete Flags mixed with Blocks. So what type of bedding and jointing would go with it. Also please is there ar website where I can look for more designs
Many Thanks
Ajay
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84-1093879891
Dry grouting is ok, but, with riven patio flags, I still think mortar pointing, when done properly, is the best.
If you mix polished flags with blocks, then dry sand jointing is fine. Lay the paving just as specified for laying normal flexible block paving, although you could use a 10:1 sand/cement bed if you preferred.
There are other paving websites out there, and some of them illustrate different 'designs', but, apart from the big manufacturers, most feature either photos of existing patios/driveways or bog-standard layouts.
I have a huge collection of design layouts and photographs that I plan to make available online at some point, but it will probably have to wait until I've more free time, possibly in the winter. At last count, I've over 6,200 digital pictures of paving. Sad, eh? ;)
If you mix polished flags with blocks, then dry sand jointing is fine. Lay the paving just as specified for laying normal flexible block paving, although you could use a 10:1 sand/cement bed if you preferred.
There are other paving websites out there, and some of them illustrate different 'designs', but, apart from the big manufacturers, most feature either photos of existing patios/driveways or bog-standard layouts.
I have a huge collection of design layouts and photographs that I plan to make available online at some point, but it will probably have to wait until I've more free time, possibly in the winter. At last count, I've over 6,200 digital pictures of paving. Sad, eh? ;)