Finished (ish) the Yorkshire stone path
Posted a few weeks about with phase 1 of the new front garden path, consisting of breaking out the old concrete path and dry laying the new one.
Phase 2 completed yesterday, laying the 4 metre long Yorkshire stone path.
Hired a mixer, wacker plate and slab laying sucker machine thingy. £138 for the weekend.
We worked from 10am until 6pm, first building up the sub base layer with Type 1 MOT. I bought 5 bags initially. Ended up needing 20. Should have kept more of the original broken up path to save money on MOT. If I'd have known it would have been significantly cheaper to get a tonne bag delivered.
Same for the bedding layer. Ended up going through about 20 x 25kg bags not the predicted 12. A tonne bag would have done perfectly I think.
I didn't order tonne bags because I didn't want to be left with a bag of sand on my lawn for the next few years. If I'd have calculated better before hand then this would have been a big help, cost wise and also saving 3 trips to B&Q / Travis Perkins yesterday.
The laying went well, did about 6 mixes, all good except 1 mix that had too much water in. We used it anyway which we might come to regret.
Only thing to do now is to come up with a way to edge it so I can point it up. Then get some cold lay tarmac to meet the pavement.