The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:51 pm**

Hi all,

First post on here but the site was absolutely invaluable when planning my new garden, so thank you to everyone that take the time to help out amateurs like myself.

I've read through a whole load of the 'flags and slabs' forum pages looking for advice on pointing and it seems to be the consensus is rompox easy is the way to go.

Just wondering if anyone had any experience with Wickes' own brand (to my untrained eye) equivelant product? The rompox stuff seems to only be stocked by a few online stores and v. expensive to get hold of when factoring in delivery. I'll only be needing a small amount (patio is 3.6m x 4.8m of 600x600 slate pavers) - i'm thinking 2-3 tubs should do it, or am I way off?

Link to Wickes grout: http://www.wickes.co.uk/bin....o+grout

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Cheers.

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:45 pm**

generally speaking steve ,you get what you pay for in the building game

but as its so cheap and you only need 1 tub maybe you could do a product test for us?
post 1 picture now and 1 in 6 months then in a year??
cheers LLL

Posted: **Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:11 pm**

Sure thing. Unless anyone chimes in with a reason not to, i'll give it a try and update.

I'm a bit sceptical of it because of the price vs. the ones you guys suggest, but i guess it's worth a punt... if it all goes wrong i've only wasted a bit of time and a few quid.

Posted: **Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:59 am**

I think the Wickes jollop is white label PaveFix from Sika. Bradstone were using it a couple of years back and sent me some to trial but I found it didn't adhere well to the flags and came loose when power washed. It was particularly unreliable with wet-cast but noticeably better with riven stone.

I also noted that it seemed to take a couple of weeks to fully harden. My notebook records that after 7 days, I was still able to press a flat-blade screwdriver into some of the joints.

LLL is right, as usual. You do get what you pay for.

The Brew Cabin

Wickes patio grout vs. rompox easy