Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:23 pm
Hi Folks,
At the rear of my property I had 110 square metres area that
her indoors decided lacked Indian Sandstone paving.
I bought the crates of the stone (ten of them), and employed
a bloke who lays the stone as his day job (and was willing to
work at weekends).
When it came to laying them, he firmly stated that chamfer
side up was the "proper" way, and even told me that his mate had
been instructed to fit them the "other way" to which he
exclaimed was patently wrong.
So that was myself convinced that he knew what to do with this
type of product.
The job was finished in the summer, and the flags are nice but
because of the chamfered edge of each stone pointing skyward
it means that the "pointing" cannot fully fill the gap from
stone to stone (it would be too wide, wouldn't look great,
and the groove allows the stone to drain to the edge then the rainwater
to work its way towards the substantial house-perimeter
linear drain that I installed).
Walking on this with normal bloke's shoes is fine - though
it may be a trip hazard if you don't take care. Trouble is, her
with the "heels" finds it tricky, to the extent that she wants
me to raise the pointing with more cement to give a more
"planar" surface.
And then when I sent some *pride* photos of the paving to
an ex colleague of mine, his first reply was "it's laid upside
down".
This has not gone down well with me: I thought that the
final outcome was what you got with Indian Sandstone.
I now have regrets, but the work has been done and I've no
great desire to rip it all up and turn it over.
So, the reason for this post is to ask: would it be wise to
add further pointing cement between the flags to even up
the top surface, or will this make an arse of the job?
Opinion requested please; thanks in advance.
[Please don't reply with "hindsight" advice - I'm still
licking my wounds :-]
Mungo
P.S. One photo of the job shown here:
http://www.mungoh.f2s.com/Miscellaneous/IMG_5652.JPG
At the rear of my property I had 110 square metres area that
her indoors decided lacked Indian Sandstone paving.
I bought the crates of the stone (ten of them), and employed
a bloke who lays the stone as his day job (and was willing to
work at weekends).
When it came to laying them, he firmly stated that chamfer
side up was the "proper" way, and even told me that his mate had
been instructed to fit them the "other way" to which he
exclaimed was patently wrong.
So that was myself convinced that he knew what to do with this
type of product.
The job was finished in the summer, and the flags are nice but
because of the chamfered edge of each stone pointing skyward
it means that the "pointing" cannot fully fill the gap from
stone to stone (it would be too wide, wouldn't look great,
and the groove allows the stone to drain to the edge then the rainwater
to work its way towards the substantial house-perimeter
linear drain that I installed).
Walking on this with normal bloke's shoes is fine - though
it may be a trip hazard if you don't take care. Trouble is, her
with the "heels" finds it tricky, to the extent that she wants
me to raise the pointing with more cement to give a more
"planar" surface.
And then when I sent some *pride* photos of the paving to
an ex colleague of mine, his first reply was "it's laid upside
down".
This has not gone down well with me: I thought that the
final outcome was what you got with Indian Sandstone.
I now have regrets, but the work has been done and I've no
great desire to rip it all up and turn it over.
So, the reason for this post is to ask: would it be wise to
add further pointing cement between the flags to even up
the top surface, or will this make an arse of the job?
Opinion requested please; thanks in advance.
[Please don't reply with "hindsight" advice - I'm still
licking my wounds :-]
Mungo
P.S. One photo of the job shown here:
http://www.mungoh.f2s.com/Miscellaneous/IMG_5652.JPG
