Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:38 pm
Hi
my patio project is ongoing and I'm currently clearing the existing garden before my type 1 arrives next weekend. My design is to basically have new 450 slabs about 3m deep from door, as existing but a couple more rows. It then drops by about 50mm to a gravel area and a path to side leading to the gate. To avoid a big relevelling exercise I have decided to keep this level drop whilst redoing the gravel area with slate chippings. However I needvto know how to do this right, my thought is to dig down the depth for the first area of paving and add type 1 before then doing the path at lower level up to the gate. However would this not expose the upper level path materials ? Do I simply put some edging under the last slabs before lower level or is it ok to be exposed?
my patio project is ongoing and I'm currently clearing the existing garden before my type 1 arrives next weekend. My design is to basically have new 450 slabs about 3m deep from door, as existing but a couple more rows. It then drops by about 50mm to a gravel area and a path to side leading to the gate. To avoid a big relevelling exercise I have decided to keep this level drop whilst redoing the gravel area with slate chippings. However I needvto know how to do this right, my thought is to dig down the depth for the first area of paving and add type 1 before then doing the path at lower level up to the gate. However would this not expose the upper level path materials ? Do I simply put some edging under the last slabs before lower level or is it ok to be exposed?
