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Just built a new shed for bike pottering and general man caving duties, problem is it's full of sh*t from the old shed.
Solution = build a hut for shed sh*t so comfy chair and optic, I mean work bench and stuff and things can be added to new shed.
I've got some old heavy (50KG or so) slabs that were recently lifted from around the house. These were not cemented in, only laid on ash & then sand - they were flush and hadn't moved since the day they were put down (many years before my time here).
So... my slab area is going to be about 4m2 which would be about 0.5 tonne of type 1 and 0.5 of sand. Problem is can't find anyone locally that will do a half tonne.
So would it be OK to just get a tonne of sand and use just sand?
The slabs won't be walked on, they will just have this hut on them, also I have no whacker - will stamping in the sub base be good enough? Never done any slabs before...
cheers
I'm no expert and hard to say without seeing the job.
Gut feeling would be to go for a tonne of type 1 and hire a whacker, work in layers and check level as you go, should be able to get pretty close. Finish off with bagged sand to get your final level.
I think that sounds like a good idea. While looking for whacker hire this popped up:
Screwfix Tamper (Hand whacker)
Without taking us into the gutter... any experience of these hand whackers?
It's about the same price/cheaper than a hire and I could use it for future planned projects.
I'm sure you could do it with one of those, you will be able to put it down as an experience as I don't think you would want to do it again though. Something like a sleeper and an extra pair of hands maybe, hand tamper, not so keen on!
A machine will give a much more even density, a lot quicker and less effort. To do it the way i've suggested will mean a fair amount of re-raking and compacting again, easy with a machine, not something I would want to do by hand. What you gain financially in doing it by hand you will probably lose most of it with the extra sand needed.
Maybe it wouldn't be too bad by hand, last time I did this it was at least 10 tonne bags that went in, so my memory is probably skewed by that.
I’d go with Type 1 and hire a whacker from what you’ve described.
Admittedly I didn’t for my shed. Ended up “placing” the shed on 16 stilts sitting on Type 1 and postcreted into place. Bit of an unusual she’d mind you. 9m long and 1.4m wide on a slope so one end of the shed is higher than the other. 4 levels in total.
Bulk bags are 800/850 kg not a tonne
Just dig a few more inches of top soil out to lose all your type 1 then watch the Great Escape to see how to get rid of the soil by filling your pockets up with an ingenious pull of string as you walk between your flower beds , it may take a while though