Well, there's only one thing for it today .......

[bird 9,872]

6 hours ago, Jonjon79 said:

Cheers Rob

 

That comes from time spent working in peoples houses mate.

great job on them slabs     cider nice on a hot day,  1 pint be enough for me, to much and  rots your bones   lol  lager or beer iam  ok with .

[Jonjon79 13,358]

2 minutes ago, bird said:

great job on them slabs     cider nice on a hot day,  1 pint be enough for me, to much and  rots your bones   lol  lager or beer iam  ok with .

Cheers Bird

 

I usually like a couple of Southern Comforts but, that Henry Westons does seem to go down easy.

 ...... Like I said earlier, Wobble juice

[Arry 21,744]

Used to be self employed ground worker did loads of slabbing probably why my back gives me jip. Any way came up with a box for jointing you need 4"x 4" timber cut length way on the diagonal it used to come in cut like that for feather edge fencing. You need two pieces about the length of you slab set about 1/2" apart slopes facing each other 2 bits of plywood 8 and a half inches long for the ends so you have a box sloping inwards ( fxck wish i could draw this ). Then another piece of ply about 8"x 4" roughly but smaller than the size of your joints, make up some semidry sand a cement a hand full squeezed together should stay in a ball. Lay over the joint fill with mix and stuff in with the odd bit of ply, iron the joint with bit of pipe or brickie's pointing iron, do not brush of until dry or you will mark the slabs, best on a dry day. Hope you can under stand all this it as really works and you get a good joint as it mushrooms out under the slab and helps stop the joint from blowing.

Cheers Arry

[Jonjon79 13,358]

6 minutes ago, Arry said:

Used to be self employed ground worker did loads of slabbing probably why my back gives me jip. Any way came up with a box for jointing you need 4"x 4" timber cut length way on the diagonal it used to come in cut like that for feather edge fencing. You need two pieces about the length of you slab set about 1/2" apart slopes facing each other 2 bits of plywood 8 and a half inches long for the ends so you have a box sloping inwards ( fxck wish i could draw this ). Then another piece of ply about 8"x 4" roughly but smaller than the size of your joints, make up some semidry sand a cement a hand full squeezed together should stay in a ball. Lay over the joint fill with mix and stuff in with the odd bit of ply, iron the joint with bit of pipe or brickie's pointing iron, do not brush of until dry or you will mark the slabs, best on a dry day. Hope you can under stand all this it as really works and you get a good joint as it mushrooms out under the slab and helps stop the joint from blowing.

Cheers Arry

I understand that mate

 

Cheers Arry, top tip - sounds like a really clean way of doing it

[mattyg 1,862]

All this talk of slabbing......

Anyone in the midlands wanna come and 30m2 of slabs at my house? I’d do it myself but I’ve just remembered I have no idea what to do and I’m too bloody busy!

[Daniel cain 45,254]

Couple of  hrs this morning, some decking and slabs for the sales office on site. 

[Jonjon79 13,358]

1 hour ago, mattyg said:

All this talk of slabbing......

Anyone in the midlands wanna come and 30m2 of slabs at my house? I’d do it myself but I’ve just remembered I have no idea what to do and I’m too bloody busy!

This shows it pretty well Matty,

 

Also, there's some good tips on Google

 

As long as you get each layer level, to the right depth and compacted well, you can't really go wrong.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Look up the new joining compund mate ,100% better than any sand cement mix and will never blow .Comes in many colours too .Resin based .

[blackmaggie 3,376]

As fox dropper  said so easy to use just wet your flags leave it a hour or so depending on the weather and just brush it in a lot stronger than pointing 

[mattyg 1,862]

3 hours ago, Jonjon79 said:

This shows it pretty well Matty,

 

Also, there's some good tips on Google

 

As long as you get each layer level, to the right depth and compacted well, you can't really go wrong.

Oh I can go wrong, quite easily, but that’s usually down to mr Weston.

[slip lead 862]

[slip lead 862]

Get ya self some of this....

[Qbgrey 4,089]

Resins the way,cement will allways take on a bit of moisture and when it freezes will bloe,even a 3 n 1 mix will blow.resins 25 times faster,no bad knees,no blowing,looks great.one man can do atleast 150sq mtrs in a day and more.

[si brown 8,486]

have you been sacked?!

time off to lay slabs and Sundays at the range!! wtf

and that brush in sika stuff is sound jon

[Jonjon79 13,358]

1 hour ago, si brown said:

have you been sacked?!

time off to lay slabs and Sundays at the range!! wtf

and that brush in sika stuff is sound jon

I wish mate 

......This was one of those jobs that's been on the back burner for ages.

 

....... Still didn't get to the range today