Laying paving slabs for a greenhouse

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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
  • How to prepare your ground before you install a greenhouse in your garden.
    Includes details on calculating the area needed, selecting your paving slabs, and time lapse videos showing how to prepare the sand and cement base, how to screed it and time lapse videos of laying the slabs and cementing them in.
    This is an easy walkthrough guide and was completed in a few days by a mum and her teenage kids.
    Part One of Installing a Greenhouse. See Part Two for how to install the greenhouse.

Комментарии • 56

  • @barbcottingham6675
    @barbcottingham6675 4 года назад +5

    Great video! You explain it so well and I am ready to try this myself. Thanks and happy gardening 👩‍🌾

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад

      Thank you so much for your nice words. I really enjoyed making the video and so I’m glad it’s helpful.

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад

      Good luck with installing your greenhouse - you won’t regret it. It’s great!

    • @brendanmullen1677
      @brendanmullen1677 3 года назад

      Will this still be ok not to use a whacker and not to put down some hardcore ?

  • @malawi8663
    @malawi8663 4 года назад +2

    you guys have done a fantastic Job saved ;yourselves a lot of money to have a professional builder well done

  • @gianlucabergamo6609
    @gianlucabergamo6609 4 года назад +4

    Doing same job to install a palram greenhouse in my garden. I ve followed your tutorial and for now it looks very good. 😊

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад +2

      Thank you so much and I’m glad it was useful. Happy gardening!

  • @Rubedo777
    @Rubedo777 9 месяцев назад

    Well done 👌 I’m laying a similar for a shed but using 20mm gravel first then grit sand mixed with a small amount of cement, laying it dry like you did and the paving slabs are dead heavy … I just needed to get the idea to get the slabs level. Good show, well done. ✅ 💙

  • @cathygarlick9321
    @cathygarlick9321 Год назад

    I'm thinking of doing the same so this was the perfect video for me - so glad I found it.

  • @janicejurgensen2122
    @janicejurgensen2122 2 года назад +1

    Yowza!! I am very impressed!! Great job!!

  • @scottrobertson5554
    @scottrobertson5554 4 года назад +11

    Just a little tip. Better to mix kiln dried sand with cement to brush into the joints. Fills the joint better than sharp sand which contains larger grains.

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад +1

      Thanks - that’s really useful and definitely worth knowing. It was a huge learning curve for me so any advice is really welcomed!

  • @RelaxeandUnwind
    @RelaxeandUnwind 2 года назад +3

    You should always use some form of sub base and. Compact each layer this looks good for what it's for well done

  • @timdale4047
    @timdale4047 2 года назад +2

    Looks better than my effort! Gonna go with the sharp sand over what I have done cos it's such a pigs ear.

  • @HouseFairyDIY
    @HouseFairyDIY 2 года назад

    Well done! Lots of hard work! I'm doing the same myself at the moment.

  • @cl7267
    @cl7267 3 года назад +3

    Clear instructions and well explained. Thank you.

  • @Littlelamb2023
    @Littlelamb2023 3 года назад +4

    Not a professional standard but that’s defo good enough. Well done for doing it yourself 💪🏽🙌🏽

    • @spencerwilton5831
      @spencerwilton5831 3 года назад +6

      my experience of "professionals" is that they turn up late, often days late- and expect you to be thankful they have even deigned to grace you with their presence. They do a substandard job, make a mess then hand you a bill big enough to collapse the economy of a small country. I do everything myself- it takes longer but the peace of mind knowing it's been done properly and no corners have been cut is worth it.

    • @Smeds1
      @Smeds1 2 года назад +1

      @@spencerwilton5831 stop crying lad

    • @tonystephengrayson
      @tonystephengrayson Год назад

      ​@@spencerwilton5831calm down dear

  • @ESSBANJO
    @ESSBANJO 4 года назад +1

    very informative, will be helpfull re my shed base, thank you

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад

      Thank you! Good luck with your shed - it was hard work but well worth it.

  • @Listermintsluesh
    @Listermintsluesh 4 года назад +3

    Well done a good job.

    • @byjoveshesdoneit7590
      @byjoveshesdoneit7590  4 года назад

      Thank you - I really enjoying putting it up and making the video!

  • @ralphchristianson
    @ralphchristianson 3 года назад

    Impressive job, and coming from Canada I would like to say I really like your channel name....very aptly named..

  • @nickedmonton8223
    @nickedmonton8223 Год назад +1

    Do you have a followup so we can see if there was any settling, cracking, etc.? Thanks.

  • @dexterking9959
    @dexterking9959 Год назад

    New to your channel I like 👍

  • @avgconan4927
    @avgconan4927 2 года назад

    This is great!

  • @PigCrafter
    @PigCrafter 3 года назад +2

    I'm assuming when mixing the sand&cement you use water? Or do you not? And if so, how much for both laying slabs and pointing the gaps

  • @andreastevenson2173
    @andreastevenson2173 4 года назад +2

    Thank you

  • @steviesells8
    @steviesells8 3 года назад +1

    Love the video going to do mine as soon as good weather comes, Ps what do you use to edit your videos 😊👍

  • @kisilvan
    @kisilvan 4 года назад +3

    Thankyou for this

  • @eddiehaskell7225
    @eddiehaskell7225 3 года назад

    no felt or vinyl covering to keep the weeds out?.....I like your design.

  • @malcolmbray2562
    @malcolmbray2562 4 года назад +3

    Very Good Video!

  • @infiniteshotz2535
    @infiniteshotz2535 Год назад +1

    Well it’s better than nothing i suppose lol 😂😂😂

  • @mollie3244
    @mollie3244 5 месяцев назад

    You didn't use a sub base there and you didn't use a whacker plate. I would at least roll it with a heavy garden roller. Also, were you sitting on the slabs after you put them down on wet cement?? I mean I hope it worked out for you but I'd really like to see an update. Looks like this was posted four years ago.

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Год назад

    How to prepare ground floor slabs of stone

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Год назад

    How to prepare the ground for stone

  • @user-ie2hp9vm3g
    @user-ie2hp9vm3g Год назад

    How to level a backyard ground

  • @cromwellg60
    @cromwellg60 3 года назад

    Great vid! Just a question, would it be worth putting aggregate down before the sharp sand if it’s going to be a heavier structure like a shed + contents? Laying my first base and want to get it right 😎 ta!

  • @nikifrasier3026
    @nikifrasier3026 2 года назад

    Where's part 2?

  • @cameronbarker4201
    @cameronbarker4201 3 года назад +4

    How not to lay a bace. It should have been dug out to 150mm below paving height a lest 75mm of mot in . Then string lines squared with each one. A wet sand a cement of 6 to 1. Lay in lines with string like tram lines. This way there will be know lips or rocking on each slabs.

    • @chiselcheswick5673
      @chiselcheswick5673 3 года назад +10

      Now you have let everyone know how good you are, let's get back to reality and understand she admits its not a pro job and its only to put a green house on.

    • @lindawright2447
      @lindawright2447 3 года назад +5

      Maybe practice your spelling mate rather than troll people who put up genuinely helpful videos? Have you never heard of spellcheck?

  • @lisahine5888
    @lisahine5888 4 года назад +10

    How not to lay slabs!

    • @chiselcheswick5673
      @chiselcheswick5673 3 года назад +11

      Thanks professor. I am sure you will be along at any minute with your expert video, wasting a load of time and money for what is only a few slabs for a greenhouse 🙄

    • @tonystephengrayson
      @tonystephengrayson Год назад +1

      ​@chiselcheswick5673 to be fair, they're not even level to start with. How do you think it will look in 6 months? Let alone years. I won't be an easy fix once a greenhouse is on top

  • @jeremywilkinson2111
    @jeremywilkinson2111 7 месяцев назад

    Possibly a good video but to be honest as soon as you started converting measurements from our feet and inches into metric ie) hundreds of millimetres right at the start, I have stopped watching. Sorry but I think its such a shame when people feel they have to express everything in metric when actually they don't

  • @kurez677
    @kurez677 Год назад

    Bad old job that