The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:38 am**

Hi All

I have a small yard bricked walled on all sides, in my new house which has very basic concrete slabs. It looks pretty dull so I am looking to jazz it up but cheaply.

After reading some of the forums, I understand that laying gravel directly on top of these concrete slabs is probably not a good idea ( hard on hard etc).

However I had a thought, would laying a rubber mat like this(rubber mat stuff) on top of the slabs and then laying the gravel on top of this be a good way of fixing the problem and lessening the possibility of skidding, balding and rolling stones.

Any ideas? Or anybody done anything similar?

Cheers

Steve

Posted: **Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:38 pm**

the rubber would need to be very very soft to make the gravel dig in, rather than roll across. But i must admit in my few years of this business, ive never heard of such a method, maybe some of the more experienced contractors have heard of such erm, methods

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:29 am**

Thanks for the reply

I'm, as you may be able to tell by my stupid idea, a bit of a novice to this.

I don't have the money to take out the old concrete slabs, so i'm kind of stuck as to what I can do to them, or lay on top of them.

Anybody outthere got any suggestions?

Thanks

steve

Posted: **Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:57 pm**

im not sure on costs, but i would imagine that the cost of the rubber surface would probably be more to lay due to the area rather than moving the concrete slabs, im not sure though

Posted: **Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:04 am**

shouldnt cost that much to remove old slabs etc, you can get an 8 yard skip for a little over Â£100 which would take a good few slabs. Thing is you allready have a subbase for the gravel, just need some terram or similar and then the gravel on top. Aslong as subbase is suitable.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:41 pm**

If the o;d slabs are sound and the height permits then you could lay some flags on top.

Cost about Â£20-Â£25 per metre

The Brew Cabin

Gravel on slabs with rubber?