Posted: Mon May 18, 2015 3:33 pm
Hi,
We've had a couple of quotes for doing some paving in our garden, and it is looking a lot more money than we want to spend, so I am looking at doing it myself.
This is the layout we have in mind - Layout
As i'll be doing it myself I've tried to keep it simple.
We're intending using 450mm x 450mm slabs (something like these)
The summer house and playhouse will be timber (fancy sheds essentially)
If I am reading correctly I will need 100mm compacted type 1, and 50mm mortar bed. The layout gives approx 22m² (rounded up to 25m²) and using the calulators here I reckon I need 5000kg type 1, 1900kg sand and 189kg cement.
Having not done this before it seems a lot of material for approx 110 slabs?
What would you suggest for jointing - I was thinking dry sand jointing?
Does the above sound OK? Just want to double check before I price up properly and order.
Thanks
We've had a couple of quotes for doing some paving in our garden, and it is looking a lot more money than we want to spend, so I am looking at doing it myself.
This is the layout we have in mind - Layout
As i'll be doing it myself I've tried to keep it simple.
We're intending using 450mm x 450mm slabs (something like these)
The summer house and playhouse will be timber (fancy sheds essentially)
If I am reading correctly I will need 100mm compacted type 1, and 50mm mortar bed. The layout gives approx 22m² (rounded up to 25m²) and using the calulators here I reckon I need 5000kg type 1, 1900kg sand and 189kg cement.
Having not done this before it seems a lot of material for approx 110 slabs?
What would you suggest for jointing - I was thinking dry sand jointing?
Does the above sound OK? Just want to double check before I price up properly and order.
Thanks