How to Lay Paving Slabs For A Patio (with DIY Expert Brian Burke)

Transform that sunny patch in the garden to a patio area where you can sit with friends and family and enjoy a cold drink in the summer sunshine. Learn how to lay paving slabs with our DIY expert Brian Burke.

0:00 Intro
0:18 Tools for laying patio slabs
0:24 choose your patio area
0:28 mark & measure the area
0:42 dig a straight edge around area
0:50 dig out the grass
0:53 stop digging at 160mm
0:58 roll out weed control material
1:05 pour hardcore & rake
1:15 check area is level
1:22 hammer & compact hardcore
1:31 pour sand over hardcore
1:33 flatten the sand
1:38 lay patio slabs
1:46 sweep in jointing sand over slabs
1:58 job done!

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How to Lay Paving Slabs For A Patio timestamps;
0:00 Intro
0:18 Tools for laying patio slabs
0:24 choose your patio area
0:28 mark & measure the area
0:42 dig a straight edge around area
0:50 dig out the grass
0:53 stop digging at 160mm
0:58 roll out weed control material
1:05 pour hardcore & rake
1:15 check area is level
1:22 hammer & compact hardcore
1:31 pour sand over hardcore
1:33 flatten the sand
1:38 lay patio slabs
1:46 sweep in jointing sand over slabs
1:58 job done!

[slabsetters]

Good video to explain the process. A valuable tool to consider when installing sidewalk slabs like this is the SlabSetters tool. It was designed exactly for this kind of project.

[christyjohnson]

Nice one. Very informative and easy to follow. 👌👍

[silvarback]

is it best to lay on sharp sand or cement thank you ??

[MrSmid]

Never understood weed control under sub base sand and slabs? Impossible to penetrate.

[felixthecatn]

This is great for a shed base, but it will move over time if laid on sand.. better to use a concrete base, reinforced with mesh, for a patio, then pave over..

[DilipDas]

No mortar bed.
Don't expect this patio to still be there after the first rainstorm.

[johntyas]

No slab should be laid without mortar...they will sink...here speaks the voice of experience...do everyrhing advised here, but clear a central hollow per slab, and add mortar...it also does advise depth
...160mm...just over 6 inches..

[colinstewart]

I'm sorry..this is a poor way of doing that.. For a start, he didn't show how to take any movement or rock out of the tiles, secondly, that sand will move in time. The sanded area needs compacted more and the sand he used was to fine. If you can manage to get the stone area as flat as possible, and then use a light coat of quarry dust, it is a far better job.. Better still, if you then mix a 5-6 sand and 1cement, you are actually better floating the slabs on a thin mortar mix..they will not move one inch when the settle in...

[RD-wniw]

Doesn't even tell you the depth of hardcore and sand. Not very useful at all.