Laying Heavy Paving Slabs

Steve · 2005-04-18T13:36:26+00:00

I am redesigning the back garden of a house I moved in to a few years ago and as part of the new design I need to move a good sized patio. To keep things simple I plan to re-use the existing 60 slabs. The problem is that these slabs are much heavier than the normal purpose made garden paving slabs I have used in the past.I have laid a couple of patios over the past 20 years, using slabs up to 450mm square and maybe 30mm thick and I remember it as being hard work, particularly when it came to positioning and levelling each slab. It was fine if the slab could be tapped level, first time, but if it needed relifting and relaying it was really hard on my back.The slabs I am now about to use are 600mm square and 50mm thick and therefore weigh about 3 times what the others did. In the past I laid a full bed of sand over the whole area, then 5 blobs of mortar under each slab. I'm thinking that this time I should lay, level and mechanically compact a full sand bed and just lay the slabs straight on to that.Does anybody have any experience of laying slabs like these? Any advice or tips to help me survive this job would be very welcome.TIASteve

Apr 18, 2005 Last reply: 6 years ago 20 Replies

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Al1686 6 years ago

replying to Rick, Al1686 wrote: Got 60 2x2 and 2x3 2inch thick f ing heavy to lay. Your comment made me LOL

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