patio slabs

Hi, We're moving to re-do our garden next week, and I am wondering what to do. The current state of the garden inherited disaster with mud and old concrete tiles 60x60 - not nice. nice. In the picture below, I have visualized the external wall where the kitchen The gas box is on that wall...

Hi folks. After some thoughts. I have a garden that doesn't follow the line of the house. I am not decided as to whether to lay slabs square with the house or to lay them square to my workshop (bottom of the garden) Square with the house is easier but slabs will look off with the shed. Any...

Hi All, I am in the middle of tiling an outdoor patio and for the outdoor steps I need to create a mitre joint along the full length of a 120cm tile to for an L shaped lip (nose). My plan is to use a coloured epoxy to glue the 2 piece together and then use an epoxy grout to finish. What do...

Disclaimer: I'm useless I've managed to get the area that needs lifted loose as a big solid block (About 7 different sized slabs that are all still attached at the joints). The spade is able to lift the whole thing up so it's definitely loose from the ground. Problem is two fold: - it seems to...

I'm in the US and have a question about British "riven" patio stone, what we call "natural cleft" stone. When you go to a stone-yard to buy it, was it sawn by the quarry so that it has a perfectly straight edge, leaving the customer to fabricate a natural edge?

Looking for advice! I have typical council house patio slabs and for the past three years have been trying to paint them a dark chocolate brown: - painted them with masonry paint 2.5 years ago, looked awesome, cheap way to make my garden look nicer vs new slabs! - following year after seeing...

My patio is nearly ready to start laying slabs on. I have to finish scraping back a few high spots and then whacker plate it down and then put some mot down then whack it again. The front wall is parallel to the house but rear wall and sides are parallel to the fences, creating the angles. The...