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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:33 am
by RebB
I know this may seem like a daft question - we have had some indian paving delivered, and me and the partner can't gree on which side should be face up. The edges are cut on all four sides, but very riven on one surface.
Should the riven surface be facing up, or be the face that you bed on to?
Many thanks
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:58 pm
by Rich H
The bevelled edge goes face down. The slabs are cut so that they present a straightish edge one way up - the top. This is in contrast to most moulded concrete slabs where, if they're bevelled, the bevelled edge is the top.
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:51 pm
by Tony McC
Read the flaming website, will you? 
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:50 am
by hillandtrail
Lost out to a job recently because another contractor could do it sooner. Saw the finnished job recently, sandstone had been laid upside down with goefix jointing.
I asked the contractor why he had laid the slabs upside down, said he had been in the trade 20 years and that they were not upside down.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:12 pm
by Tony McC
I wish I had a meat and potato pie for every time I'm given the "I've been doing it this way for XXX years...." excuse for incorrect or shoddy workmanship. Spot bedding; edge courses on sand; upside-down imported flagstones....it's always the same: an absurd belief that because they've been getting away with it for a period of time, their incompetence becomes legitimised.
If they done any work on supervised, inspected or assessed projects, they'd soon find out which way is up!
