How To Lay a Natural Stone Garden Patio

Mark Brown, Pavestone's expert garden landscaper, demonstrates and explains the correct method of preparing and installing a natural stone paved garden patio.

Mark has been a professional, award winning, hard landscaper for many years and has built many prestigious gardens. He is well known for his depth of knowledge and for his very high standard of work.

Mark even suggests the tools you need to have to hand too!

[paulgreen]

Best instructional video on this topic I have seen- thanks

[harold]

Very well explained thank you so much. This will be a great help.

[KTypeR]

Loved this video. Great how to guide from start to finish 👍🏽

[roybatty]

That will be there in 1000 years time. I would compact the earth and not bother with sub-base on such a light use patio.

[robertthornton]

Who's heree playign the 'it's essential" drinking gaame ?

[LawnRight]

Very clear and easy to understand, thanks!

[p]

Hi - Great video. Thank you. When applying the slurry - must it be wet (ish) when laying? - Can I paint a few slabs first which may dry before? - Would be grateful if you could let me know. Cheers.

[thefuryish]

If only the company I paid to lay my patio had seen this video.... They were supposed to be expert patio installers, but used probably 20mm sub base, left dips in the slabs which now collects water and didn't compact the pointing which was only between 5mm & 10mm deep. The first time I jet washed the patio the pointing came out!!! I am doing it myself next time.

[bigtorrisi]

It might have been better to have the fall on the side of the flower beds.

[treguard]

Going to try using a 15lb mallet and board, as it has to be done this week and nobody has a whacker plate spare.
Its such a small area that im doing that hipefilly it should be fine.

[rubberduck]

When I last laid a patio, I did 150mm sub base and 100mm laying bed, that was my first time though and I've heard I might have gone a bit overboard, and I'm due to do a larger patio in the next couple of months, would you say 100mm sub base and 40mm is absolutely fine for a patio to last ten years or more? It would certainly help keep costs down on materials for my 35m2 patio.

[pindapoy]

Excellent and highly instructive video with very clear and logical explanations.
May I please ask a question? I need to cover a much smaller area and plan to use prefabricated concrete slabs readily available at do it yourself stores.
Each slab measures 40cm long, 20cm wide and 4.5cm height and weighs about 7.5kg.
The whole projects requires no more than 6 of these slabs (maybe only 4).
Would you recommend using the exact same base (foundation) principles as illustrated in the video or can the design be simplified?
Thank you

[michaelmajor]

i think you got the fall going the wrong way

[spaghettirus]

Thanks. Just wondering why there is a no damp proof membrane?

[Doodahdoodles]

Do you need a geo grid if building a patio on an already made and set raised level? We are adding a patio to an area that has a geo grid shed base already installed

[sunnyday]

Thanks for the video which is very helpful. Can I lay the sandstone slabs in December? The temperature will be 4 - 8 C next week.

[TheSolidDefender]

Great video.

How do you calculate the required amount of cement and sharp sand required for the desired area?

Thanks

[stonecoldjaneausten]

Interested to know why you didnt seal the sandstone. I know some sweat by sealing natural stone whereas others prerfer not to...

[mehere]

this is my task over next weekend, although the neighbour wants the slabs straight on to weed control sheet thats on dirt

[MarcJWebbMusic]

What spirit level is this please. I have been searching for ages but can’t find one with those fall off lines on