About to lay a patio.

Reebrock

With paving slabs. My first ever attempt. has anybody ever laid one before? If so, any final words of advise before I embark on this potential suicide mission.

knickerbocker

Get up early........ and wear knee pads!

gutteruu

I'm about to do the same so keeping an eye on this thread. Maybe we can swap how bad our plans are. My plan is to dig out top soil, fill with 804, wack it, then lay slabs on a very dry bed of 1:4 dry mix about 40mm thick? Half fill gaps between slabs then pour water over at the end to set it. Then grout it using roadstones grout they supply the next day?

How far off am I ?

knickerbocker

gutteruu wrote: »

I'm about to do the same so keeping an eye on this thread. Maybe we can swap how bad our plans are. My plan is to dig out top soil, fill with 804, wack it, then lay slabs on a very dry bed of 1:4 dry mix about 40mm thick? Half fill gaps between slabs then pour water over at the end to set it. Then grout it using roadstones grout they supply the next day?

How far off am I ?

That's the way to do it..... though some don't bother with cement in the bed and just put down a 'paving grit', but personally I think the cement element is the way to go.
And again, some folk just put sand in the joints, my preference is to brush in a 1:3 plastering sand mix.

And the important bit...... get up early and wear knee pads.

Joey the lips

Make sure the fall is towards a drain but most importantly away from the house and not into a dead end corner

lgk

Pretty much all you need to know covered here.