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Paving slabs on clay soil

  • 20-09-2017 11:15am
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Hi,

    We're trying to pave a section of our garden. We have 400x400 slabs, which we're trying to place on paving sand on top of the soil. The problem is that this is clay soil, which appears to be in a permanent state of mud. The slabs are never even and the soil keeps sinking and moving.

    Is there a way to rectify it (preferably without paying a fortune to get it done professionally)?

    Thanks,

    M.


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  • #2
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,186 ✭✭✭cletus


    Dig out 4" plus the depth of your paving slab across the area of your patio. Lay down 2" of hardcore ( also known as 804). Lay 2" of bedding sand (the stuff I used looks like pea gravel, much larger than actual sand).

    Bed the paving slabs in hte pea gravel, and fill the gaps with sand. Thats how i did mine and they havent moved.

    The hardcore is about €50 a ton, as is the bedding sand


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