Lifting paving slabs - special tool?

[Malcolm H]

Is there a tool which can be inserted between paving slabs and used to lift
one of them?

If so where can I buy one?

[1501]

I've not seen a special tool for this job but I've managed to do it
before with a couple of loops of galvanised fencing wire worked into
the inter-slab gaps and hooked round diagonally opposite corners. I
then passed a stout length of timber through the loops to lift the
slab.

[sm_jamieson]

On 7 May, 09:21, "Malcolm H" <malco...@nospam.com> wrote:

How big are the gaps ?
Crowbar ?
Buy it at any DIY or builders merchants.
Simon.

[Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot]

That's clever, that is! <Files away to be forgotten>

Si

[Rob]

http://www.muscroft-eng.demon.co.uk/safety.htm

Rob

[Tim Downie]

For small ones, you might get away with this

http://tinyurl.com/4d3lzl

or this one on ebay that looks a bit more robust

http://tinyurl.com/4a45ru

Tim

[Cicero]

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Use the corner of an ordinary (strong) garden spade; do a partial lift and
wedge an old screwdriver into the gap before re-inserting the spade for a
final lift.

Cic.
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[Stuart Noble]

Cicero wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 08:21:47 +0000, Malcolm H wrote:
>
>> Is there a tool which can be inserted between paving slabs and used to lift
>> one of them?
>>
>> If so where can I buy one?
>
> ==================================
> Use the corner of an ordinary (strong) garden spade; do a partial lift and
> wedge an old screwdriver into the gap before re-inserting the spade for a
> final lift.
>
> Cic.

Lifting a single slab in the middle of a load of others can be nigh on
impossible. I've only ever had to do it when the single slab was broken

[John]

<m...@privacy.net> wrote in message news:4F9BB9DF8E%brian...@lycos.co.uk...
> On 7 May,

> A wooden frame with lifting handles, and a thick plywood back. Rubber seal
> around edge, and a hole for a vacuum cleaner hose. Sit this on back of
> slab,
> attach vacuum, and lift with handles. Job done!
>
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> Change lycos to yahoo to reply

You must be joking - you would need a positive displacement vacuum pump -
not a vacuum cleaner. Paving contractors in my local area used such a
device - with counterbalances to lay paving in the city centre. Made it look
easy! No doubt a Health and Safety issue now to minimise manual handling.

[nightjar]

"Malcolm H" <malc...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a tool which can be inserted between paving slabs and used to
> lift one of them?

There is a device called a slab lifter

> If so where can I buy one?

Engineering or tools suppliers, but they run into a few hundred quid each.

Colin Bignell

[SantaUK]

Seriously? I'm looking forward to you videoing this and sticking it on
YouTube for us all to see............

[Cap'n Crook]

replying to Malcolm H, Cap'n Crook wrote:
A bailing hook or something of that shape to get between the slabs, and turn
and lift - two of these would make the job easier.

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[Cynic]

Is Cormaics website Paving Expert still accessible?

[John Rumm]

On 12/07/2018 21:47, Cynic wrote:
> Is Cormaics website Paving Expert still accessible?

yup:

http://www.pavingexpert.com/

(there is a book as well)

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[The Other John]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:44:03 +0000, Cap'n Crook wrote:

> replying to Malcolm H...

who posted on May 7, 2008...

Missed this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ did you?

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[Brian Gaff]

Well its an eternal question and I suspect the is this still... shows it was
not missed perhaps?

Brian

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[hertz]

This is correct. I've just made a lifter using a square of melamine coated chipboard,an old bike inner tube and a domestic vacuum cleaner. Works fine for my 45cm square pavers.

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[Fredxx]

On 01/07/2021 18:31, hertz wrote:
> This is correct. I've just made a lifter using a square of melamine
> coated chipboard,an old bike inner tube and a domestic vacuum cleaner.
> Works fine for my 45cm square pavers.

Before replying to a 13 year old post through a broken website read this
first.

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Home_owners_hub

I'm glad something is correct. Shame it's 13 years late.

[GB]

On 01/07/2021 18:31, hertz wrote:

> This is correct. I've just made a lifter using a square of melamine
> coated chipboard,an old bike inner tube and a domestic vacuum cleaner.
> Works fine for my 45cm square pavers.
>

I love this quote from the thread:

"Assuming just 1psi (2' head, easily achieved with my VAX) over a 2'x2'
slab, the suction will be of the order of 500lb. enough to easily raise
the heaviest slab."


One atmosphere is 14 psi, and I guess a vacuum cleaner can manage a
1/14th of an atmosphere?

The difficulty would be getting a decent seal.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

And don't blab about your device till you patent it either!

Brian

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