Rocking paving stones

[Broadback]

Especially after a drink or two.
Seriously, several the paviours in my patio have started to rock
slightly. What is the easiest way of dealing with this and steadying them?

[John Rumm]

How were they laid? (i.e. solid bed, onto a tamped screed of sharp sand,
or dot'n'dabs of mortar

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Cheers,

John.

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[meow...@care2.com]

Lift them, they're heavy. Get the sand bed under them good & flat at the right level, and plonk the slab back down. They're heavy. Oh, and theyre heavy,


NT

[polygonum]

On 17/06/2013 19:19, John Rumm wrote:
> On 17/06/2013 17:59, Broadback wrote:
>
>> Especially after a drink or two.
>> Seriously, several the paviours in my patio have started to rock
>> slightly. What is the easiest way of dealing with this and steadying
>> them?
>
> How were they laid? (i.e. solid bed, onto a tamped screed of sharp sand,
> or dot'n'dabs of mortar
>

dot'n'dab isn't laying - it is somewhere between a hope and a prayer!

But it is the right question.

The next one is which sort of paviour?

1. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) a person who lays paving
2. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) a machine for ramming down paving
3. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) material used for paving

Guessing 3. - what sort of material/size?

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Rod

[ss]

On 17/06/2013 19:21, meow...@care2.com wrote:
> On Monday, June 17, 2013 5:59:05 PM UTC+1, Broadback wrote:
>
>> Especially after a drink or two.
>> Seriously, several the paviours in my patio have started to rock
>> slightly. What is the easiest way of dealing with this and steadying them?
>

> Lift them, they're heavy. Get the sand bed under them good& flat at the right level, and plonk the slab back down. They're heavy. Oh, and theyre heavy,
>
>
> NT
Just sorted a load in my back garden and I will second ..."They're
heavy. Oh, and theyre heavy," ...
What I did was got a couple of old broom handles and if you can get one
edge on to one of them you can push it back easily and just place the
second broom handle under it before it rolls past the halfway mark.
then just roll back and position.
You will still end up with some heavy work but it does make some of it
easier.

[Dave Liquorice]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:21:34 -0700 (PDT), meow...@care2.com wrote:

> Lift them, they're heavy. Get the sand bed under them good & flat at the
> right level, and plonk the slab back down. They're heavy. Oh, and theyre
> heavy,

Proper size paving slabs are but I wouldn't call them paviours...
Paviours to me means those roughly 15" square thingies. Still
capeable of a nasty finger nip but they aren't glued to the ground.
B-)

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Cheers
Dave.

[Phil L]

Whether you mean block pavers or paving slabs, the remedy is the same - you
need to lift them and apply more filling underneath.

I assume you are talking about block pavers as slabs are fairly easy to lift
providing there's gaps.

For pavers you'll need two flat screwdrivers and prise them up at each side
simoultaneously

[Dave Liquorice]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:06:44 +0100, Phil L wrote:

> Whether you mean block pavers or paving slabs, the remedy is the same -
> you need to lift them and apply more filling underneath.

And possibly work out whats failed to cause the rocking so it doesn't
fail again. I suspect it's dot 'n dab one a poor sub-base that has
washed away by rain flowing down between the paviours. Dot 'n dab is
quick and easy compared to a decent firmed up, leveled with drainage
slope, smooth sub base.

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Cheers
Dave.

[Gazz]

<meow...@care2.com> wrote in message
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Saw the council leveling all the paviers along the high street many years
ago, they had a vacuum slab lifting machine, bloody brilliant,
position the base of the machine next to the slab to be lifted, start the
engine, lower the box that looked a little like a hover craft hull dowon to
the slab, engine revs up, pull on the lever and up comes the slab,

Bloke chucks some sand under, levels it out, and down with the slab, usually
job done... release vacuum, onto next slab, occasionally i saw them have 2
or 3 goes at getting the slab level,

Would have loved to be able to hire one of them to level my parents patio,
instead we fannied about for 2 days with a crowbar, screwdrivers, pinched
fingers, fucked backs, and there are still some that wobble a bit.