Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:58 pm
Hello all,
New to the forum, so please bear with me.
I live in a basement flat and have a courtyard at the front of the house. The surface is concrete and it has a manhole cover (likely inspectionary cover) and drain grate, both flush against the concrete surface which is some 3-4 inches below the floor of the flat.
I would like to lay sandstone flags and plan to do the work myself. My queries are:
- Is it okay to lay flags over concrete?
- How can I raise the manhole cover? What is the cheapest and also easiest way of doing this? I would ideally want to place flags into a recessed drain cover, so the 'sides' of the drain need raising...
- How can I raise the drain grate? Are raised grates available to buy? I haven't seen any from searching on the internet...
- The grate is in the middle of the courtyard. Would adequate drainage be acheieved by angling the sandstone flags into the drain?
- Anything else I should be aware of?
Many thanks in advance.
Steve
New to the forum, so please bear with me.
I live in a basement flat and have a courtyard at the front of the house. The surface is concrete and it has a manhole cover (likely inspectionary cover) and drain grate, both flush against the concrete surface which is some 3-4 inches below the floor of the flat.
I would like to lay sandstone flags and plan to do the work myself. My queries are:
- Is it okay to lay flags over concrete?
- How can I raise the manhole cover? What is the cheapest and also easiest way of doing this? I would ideally want to place flags into a recessed drain cover, so the 'sides' of the drain need raising...
- How can I raise the drain grate? Are raised grates available to buy? I haven't seen any from searching on the internet...
- The grate is in the middle of the courtyard. Would adequate drainage be acheieved by angling the sandstone flags into the drain?
- Anything else I should be aware of?
Many thanks in advance.
Steve
