How To Lay Limestone Patio

Depth Guide To Installing Natural Stone

First Thing Is To Get Rid Of The old Patio & Soil

When it comes to patios and choice of materials, there is nothing that looks quite as good as natural stone. In this post I will guide you through the process of how to lay. Thickness of sub base, mix ratio and everything else that you need to know when laying natural stone, in this case Ebony Black Limestone.

Before we can start even thinking about laying natural stone, we need to prep the area. This will consist of removing the soil or old patio that is in the area we want to install the new patio. In this case, there was old concrete stone patio and part of soil to remove. The reason that we were asked to replace this patio, is that it had failed. The reason behind the failure was that it had been laid on the old dot and dab method, which is not the way to go for the strongest bonding. I will explain in more detail later in this post, when we get to lay the stone.

 patio area
What We Had To Start With

This Was The Old Patio & Turf We Had To Start With
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In-depth Video On How To Build a Feather Edge Fence

You can see how he keep using his spirit level to make sure the boards stay straight an true and not creeping, as I was saying in my earlier post. Also the way he tapers the post mix to keep water away from the bottom of the post. These are all little tips we can take and use when constructing our own fencing.

But he also puts his gravel board under the fence and before the boards go onto the rails. This is common the erecting feather edged fencing. And as i say people have different ways and maybe you will to and thats fine, just share them and keep the knowledge out there fresh and unto date.

There are many types of fencing, it just so happens i like these couple that i have posted first. Stay tuned for more instructions and instructional videos to come. Next time how to lay natural stone the correct way