Paving advice

anotherbaldrick

modelreject wrote: »

Was going to use these standard slabs 60x60...http://www.tobermore.co.uk/standard_flags.aspx

The area is already paved, just shoddy and old so wont need planning permission.

Did read that dot n dab was old school so was going to cover whole area. So this isn't going to be as inexpensive as I thought. A bag s slab is a lot. I calculate about 14 slabs needed.

All over if you are bedding on sharp sand, but you have to have whacker plate to compact it and expertise to level bed accurately, I would still do mortar dabs. Watch out for some colours , they can fade with sun and cleaning, the red sometimes goes a particularly vile pink.

modelreject

I was going to follow this rough guide...http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/pointingpatio.htm

Because there is concrete already under the current paving I will just need to make sure with the dabbing that the edges are mortared so when I come to point the mortar settles properly and doesn't have a chance to shrink or crack... I think :-)