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Hi I'm currently digging up my garden and I'm thinking of laying Indian stone in my garden it's quite a big project and iv never done it before has anybody got any tips and has anybody done it before was it easy enough to lay or did you find it difficult?
For a ten square metre area;
kerb stone edges cemented in place
1 tonne MOT base layer stamped flat.
1 tonne grit sand and cement dry mix smoothed flat and checked with a level to get the fall correct.
1 tonne grit sand and cement as a wet mix and flags laid into this layer.
Hard work!
Do slurry the back of them before laying and DON’T 5 spot them, full bed only.
I laid a indian black limestone patio this summer, we already had a big chunk of concrete slab where a garage used to be so i extended that and squared it up with the house and made a plan in maya (3d software) and set about it over the august back holiday. Was hot and hard work as i was by my self but not that technically hard. I rented a cement mixer and went with a strong sharp sand and builders sand mix but didnt slurry the back of them. You do need a full bed, mine was between 40 and 50 mm to allow a slight fall so no puddles when it rains. I found this website was really helpfull
do lots of measuring and thinking before setting off thats my advice 🙂
Okay thanks for the replys 😊
I would absolutely be sure to use an SBR slurry to bond them to the mortar bed. Indian sandstone are notorious for lifting. We had a nightmare with ours where a contractor didn't use the slurry on the back of them. All 30-40 square/m of the ones with the SBR are rock solid. Make sure you have a FULL FULL bed and don't try and get away with dotting or any nonsense like that.
The stones are really thin, and surprisingly fragile...tap on the stones with caution. Oldschool York flags these are not.
Ignore my weirdly delayed reply with the same site as above!
Use the sikka resin brush in grout. Much better than mortar
I think the silka resin brush in grout is crap. It mosses/greens up really easily, costs a fortune, never really gets rocksolid and washes out mega easily. Wouldn't use it ever again.
Ours lasted years, no problems.