Re: Advice for laying patio stones?

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From: Paul Ward
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 14:38

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Having designed and landscaped gardens, my advice would to pay
some-one else to do it for you. You need at least 4" of compacted
hardcore (hire a plate virator) and then need to bed the slabs onto a
mortar mix, with a slope of about 1" in 6ft. You also need to think
about draianage and where the water will go.

I have come across so many awful amateur laid patios. The slabs rock,
they're uneven and grass and weeds grow through the cracks. I've
worked with people who lay these things and so probably have a good
idea of how to go about it, but when I moved house I paid some-one
else to do it for me. It's really not worth the economy of doing it
yourself.

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