The Brew Cabin

Hi,
while surfing i found this site www.diy-paving.co.uk it offers rails that you sink into the grit sand .
Are they any good?
As this will be my first time at laying some slabs to form a patio area.
If these rails are know good which methoed would you choose for a first timer.
1. Lay 100 mm of rubble with 50mm of compacted grit sand then a second layer of grit sand which is then screeded. Then lay the slabs straight on top. Once all the slabs are laid then vibro plate them all.
2. Lay 100 mm of rubble with 50mm of compacted grit sand. Then proceed to fix the flags with 5 blobs of mortar?

Thanks for any advice
Wayne

(Edited by wayne at 5:12 pm on April 13, 2003)

I've never used those yokes, Wayne, and, to be honest, I never would. They look a bit too gimmicky to me, and they do buggerall about compacting the flags/slabs to the correct level. I'd save me money, if it were me!

The method I prefer for both experts and novices is outlined on the Laying Flags page, and you certainly don't need any fancy 'rails'!

Neither of the methods you propose are any good at all, and I have to wonder whether it's a case of you not bothering to read the site, or if this is just a wind-up. If you put a Vib plate over flags/slabs, you'll smash them to pieces, and, if you lay on spot bedding, you're storing up trouble for next year.

Please read at least some of the site before asking for answers to questions that are already exhaustively covered within the site.