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Originally Posted by Donna
I will give it a go!!! Its just the heavyness of the job!! Did you get your slabs/shingle delivered? B&Q do bags, but they are really heavy ![Rolling Eyes](images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif) or I am so feeble!!!
Did you cement your slabs or just place them on sand or firm ground?
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Hiya Donna have you got access to the back garden from the front without going through the house? if so, get a tonne bag delivered I did and then shovled the grael into the wheelbarrow and pushed it round much easier and cheaper in the end.
I laid my slabs on a base slab fix you buy that in bags like a mortar type mix perfect for laying slabs on also used a spirit level to make sure they are level but made sure the ground was level first, using sand to even it out
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and hardened it down and put the membrane (surpress the weeds) down then placed the stepping stones where I would walk and at a reasonable distance apart walk it a few times. Leave them down a day or two an check out they are in the right place first. I put them at different ways and used mixed sizes too ie 300x300 300x450 450x450 600x 600 etc etc looked better I found.
Once I was happy with the placing of the slabs and they were level I just put the gravel down and a tip I suggest if you want to confine the gravel to a path and don't want the gravel to spread all over get some thin tannalised timber (ie treated) lathe I think its called and then either paint or creosote it and put down the edges knock in and it holds the gravel in place and you really should last a good few years and easy to replace if needed.
Karen